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Vico Equense and Dintorni
Vico Equense
Vico Equense is city smile constituted from a small center and 13 country houses that are stretched on a lussureggiante arc hills.

Vico Equense is situated to the center between Sorrento, Pompei and Positano, therefore dislocated structures ivi offer one vacation to the standard of the culture without having to omit the society life.

The territory of Vico Equense is the immensest of the peninsula sorrentina, poichè beyond the true city and own it comprises various other centers inhabits sayings to you “country houses”, in how much is the name with which they came indicates to you in antiquity.

In XIII the century from Carl II of Angò, it gave in feudo to its primogenito principato of Salerno and other territories, between these was indicated Vico and its country houses, “cum Vico ET casalibus”.

With of the terrritorio it is comprised between the two cities of Castellammare di Stabia and Sorrento, in an arc that leaving from the Scrajo is penetrated inside, comprising the Faito mount, and growing tall until on mounts of Positano, it comes down until the sea comprising some beach pieces, turns on the Crinale di Sorrento, until the tip of Scutalo. This immense territory, as already said it is scattered from numerous country houses which formed in an age much ancient one, how much the seas began to being infest to you from the pirati ones saraceni and the coastal cities came flagellated from bloody incursions. Some country houses but have more ancient origins, as it denotes their name of Latin derivation, Seiano or Ticciano, that they had to be of the “Praedia” of one “gens Seja” or one “gens Titia”; even if archaeologically it is not possible to say null, not being be recovered traces, for hour.

At first the country houses were puttinges in communication between they from an interlaced street net, not sure carrabile and that it was subdivided on several foreheads.

Today they are connects to you from the road called Via Raffaele Bosco, than it can be feed is from Seiano that they give the center of Vico Equense, and snoda between the heights, with the visual beautifulst widths and, and that it is circulated along its distance towards panoramic localities like Ticciano, the Camandoli, S. Francesco, S.M. of the Castle.

These centers today like then, live of an economy of agricultural type and production of latticini that they are the best ones of the peninsula, and only the Faito differs from the others in how much has an exclusively tourist character.

The Locality of Ticciano
The documents of i centuries XIV and XV count in the territory of Vico Equense one ten of hills Country houses.

A lapidaria registration, found to Ticciano hour in the Church of Saint Michele Arcangelo, attests to the presence of Roman in these places and a epigrafe bizzantina in Greek characters around to the symbol of the Cross, it is of sure the most ancient testimony of the Christianity in the territory of Vico Equense, and confirmation also in the change, the continuity of the life of this inhabited nucleus.

The village, particular for the salubrità of the air, characterizes for the activity of its people, all given over one to the job of the fields and the handicraft.

Like once, baskets of every shape with the wood sfetato from the chestnut tree are still interlaced and still with the same wood of they model the calibrated carrying structures of the trellis works of Sorrento.

From Sorrento to Amalfi
in turn in the “earth of the sirene”
The cape to separate waters of the Gulfs of Naples and Salerno is the omerica “earth of the sirene”, a natural paradise mounted between earth and sea, that seduced in the centuries fleets of illustrious travellers.

Sorrento, Positano, Amalfi, Ravello, Vico Equense, are only some of “pearls” of the Peninsula Sorrentina and Costiera Amalfitana, a slice of declared territory world-wide patrimony of the Unesco, where lives and olive trees, costoni full of rocks and spiaggette hidden, the blue of the sea and the green of the agrumenti create a iripetibile atmosphere.

The Regional Natural Park of the Lattari Mounts
The Park covers part of the territory of the Sorrentina Peninsula and the Coastal Amalfitana, from Castellammare di Stabia to Vietri on the Sea.

Wide and articulated the system of the paths: most spectacular it is that one called, not to case, “il sentiero degli dei” that door from Ticciano di Vico Equense until to Amalfi, or Positano.

Monte Faito is the higher top of the Park.

Entire covered from chestnut tree and faggio forests. On its depositors are present the ginestra of carbonai and the Mediterranean spot, the underbrush are instead rich of ferns, ciclamini, corbezzoli, wild roses and strawberries.

From the “Lookout” a charming panorama is enjoyed on the gulfs of Naples and Salerno; in the more luminous days the look can arrive to abracciare the cape of the Circeo, the Pontino island and the farthest ones templum of Paestum.

The Vesuvio
Majestic and fascinating, the Vesuvio is from always the great partenopeo protagonist.

Since the seven hundred travellers face of good degree the scaling also of to admire the panorama and to show oneself to the crater. A travel that us filler behind in the time, until those 24 August of the 79 d.C in which the Vesuvio “it gave spettaolo” with the devastating outbreak that buried Pompei, Ercolano and Oplontis.

Pompei
The daily life of two thousand years ago
Important center trades them of the Campania felix, Pompei had a strategic role in the distribution of the goodses between Rome, the countries of entroterra and the ports of the Mediterranean.

The sea
Vico Equense is an important center to baleare, that remarkable variety of choice offers to the travellers one. Leaving from the beach with thermal waters, of the Scrajo where she can be conjugated health and well-being in a natural frame of great suggestion, continuing towards the Lydians it equips you of Vico Equense, in order to reach as well as exclusive the how much natural Beach of the Turtle, until reaching Navy of Fair, one small situated beach to Seiano, encircled from high cliffs and the crystalline water.

From Vico Equense, the Lydians of Sorrento, Lubrense Mass, Positano, Praiano can themselves moreover be caught up easily,….and beautiful Capri