Capaccio Paestum is situated across the Thyrrhenian coast about 85 km of Naples, south from the Sele river, and includes in the territory the ruins from the ancient greek language-Roman town of Paestum.
A seaside areas have beautiful beaches with thick pinewood behinds, and provide a number of holiday facilities, including tourist villages, campings and fine hotels. Proceeding south-west in to the hinterland there's the Cilento - Vallo di Diano National Park.
Info
Altitude: 112 m a.s.l -- Population: ca. 20,000 occupants -- Zip/postal code: 84047 - 84040 (Capaccio Paestum Scalo), 84050 (Gromola), 84063 (Laura, Paestum), 84060 (Ponte Barizzo) -- Phone Area Code: 0828 -- Frazioni: Capaccio Marittima (seat from the townhall), Borgo Nuovo, Cafasso, Chiorbo, Foce Sele, Gaiarda, Gromola, Laura, Licinella, Linora, Paestum, Ponte Barizzo, Rettifilo-Vannulo, Spinazzo, Santa Venere, Tempa di Lepre, Torre di Mare, Tempa San Paolo, Vuccolo Maiorano. -- Località: Andreoli, Crispi, Fuscillo, Getsemani, Torre di Paestum, Pietrale, Capo di Fiume, Residenza Dorica, Sabatella, Scigliati, Seliano, Seude Grattacaso, Stregara, Villaggio Merola. -- Map: visit a Map ofCapaccio Paestum
History
Founded around the beginning of the seventh century BC by Greek settlers, and initially referred to as Poseidonia, it later grew to become the Roman town of Paestum in 273 BC following the Graeco-Italian Poseidonians sided using the loser, Pyrrhus, in war against Rome throughout the first quarter from the 3rd century BC.
The town continued to be in continuous occupation through the Roman imperial period, but began to enter decline between your fourth and seventh centuries, most likely because of alterations in local land drainage patterns resulting in swampy malarial conditions.
It had been abandoned throughout the Dark Ages, and it is ruins only found notice again within the 1700s, following a rediscovery from the Roman metropolitan areas of Pompeii and Herculaneum.
Things to see
- Three major temples in Doric style. dating in the first 1 / 2 of the sixth century BC. Of those, two were focused on the Greek goddesss Hera and also the third to Athena, even though they have typically been connected using the names from the Roman deities Poseidon, Neptune, and Ceres, because of 1700s mis-attribution.