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( 0974 83 83 64; lanterna@cilento.it; Via Lanterna 8; dm €13-16, s €17-20, d €32-45, tr €45-54;
mid-Mar-Oct) Agropoli's friendly Ostello La Lanterna has dorms, doubles and four-bed
family rooms, as well as a garden and optional evening meals (€10). The beach is a two-
minute walk away.
Il Vecchio Saracino
( 0974 82 64 15; www.vecchiosaracino.it ; Via Granatelle 18, Agropoli; meals €25; 8.30pm-mid-
night daily, also 1-4pm Sun; ) Raise your fork to good-value, whisker-licking seafood at
this local institution. Dishes sing with flavour, whether it's the beautifully textured shrimp
and artichoke gratin with homemade artichoke conserve, the paccheri (large, tube-shaped
pasta) with clams and monkfish, or the soul-coaxing Cilento fish soup. Many ingredients
and products are proudly homemade, from the salted anchovies to a string of smooth li-
queurs.
SEAFOOD €€
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Parco Nazionale del Cilento e Vallo di Diano
Stretching from the coast up to Campania's highest peak, Monte Cervati (1900m), and
beyond to the regional border with Basilicata, the Parco Nazionale del Cilento e Vallo di
Diano is Italy's second-largest national park. A little-explored area of barren heights and
empty valleys, it's the perfect antidote to the holiday mayhem on the coast.
For further information stop by the tourist office ( Click here ) in Paestum.
Sights & Activities
Grotte di Castelcivita
( 0828 77 23 97; www.grottedicastelcivita.com ; Piazzale N Zonzi, Castelcivita; adult/reduced €10/8;
standard tours 10.30am, noon, 1.30pm, 3pm Mar-Oct, also 4.30pm & 6pm Apr-Sep, 4hr tours 10am Sat Jun-
Oct; ) Located about 20km northeast of Paestum, the Grotte di Castelcivita complex
is where Spartacus is said to have taken refuge following his slave rebellion in 71 BC. The
standard one-hour tour winds through a route surrounded by extra-ordinary stalagmites
and stalactites, and a mesmerising play of colours, caused by algae, calcium and iron tint-
ing the naturally sculpted rock shapes.
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