Alici di Menaica
Alici di Menaica is a small family-run company that deals with the processing and sale of fish products and local fish preserved and processed according to ancient traditions. There is an ancient fishing technique, once widespread on all the coasts of the Mediterranean, which survives in a few places in Italy. One of these is […]
Archeological Park of Velia
Velia, an ancient city of Magna Graecia, is located in the heart of Cilento, surrounded by a unique landscape of sea, hills, and forests. Walking among its temples, paved streets, and remains of ancient buildings, visitors can feel the millenary history of a civilization that left an indelible mark on Mediterranean philosophy and culture. AIGAE […]
Santomiele
The Fruit of Dionysus: Opificio Santomiele tells the story of a once-forgotten fruit—the white Cilento fig—now rediscovered and celebrated in all its nuances. By restoring an 18th-century oil mill in the village of Prignano Cilento with a modern touch, Antonio and Corrado have created a widely recognized brand and reinvented the fig in a remarkable […]
Tenuta Chirico
Tenuta Chirico is an innovative cheese farm, also producing biofuel. Milking and cheesemaking. Tenuta Chirico is a family-run agricultural and livestock farm located in the Municipality of Ascea, near the Archaeological Park of Velia, the ancient city of Elea, a land favored by the philosophers Parmenides and Zeno. The air you breathe in the lands […]
Azienda Agricola Volpe
Pasquale, from Azienda Agricola Volpe, is the last beekeeper of San Mauro Cilento. Through his hard work and daily dedication, he is a guardian of bees and therefore of biodiversity. Being an architect from education and profession, he educates people on the beauty of the social and architectural system of bees. He explains that these […]
Azienda agricola La Petrosa
Edmondo Soffritti, from Azienda Agricola La Petrosa, is the son of 2 generations of farmers. After having inherited the 60-ha farm he still manages, he wanted to find an alternative to the conventional way of farming his family used, that was heavily dependent on external inputs, destroyed biodiversity, eroded soils and was therefore not resilient. […]
Cooperativa Nuovo Cilento
The cooperative was founded in 1976 in San Mauro Cilento. Its 408 members cultivate 2500 hectares of land in the Cilento National Park, Vallo di Diano and Alburni. The cooperative occupies a leading position in Italy in the protection of biodiversity, organic certification and protected designation of origin (PDO Cilento). In fact, it was the […]
Botanical Walks
The Botanical Walks take place in woods, meadows and cultivated fields to discover the Officinal Plants that grow spontaneously. The use of herbs, in the Mediterranean tradition, is based on a very broad, philosophically and ecologically, concept of prevention; on maintaining health; on the local ecosystem as medicine, food as medicine and on the care […]