Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
SITA Sud ( Click here ) buses for Amalfi (€2.50, 1¼ hours, at least hourly) depart from
Piazza Vittorio Veneto , beside the train station, stopping en route at Vietri sul Mare, Cetara,
Maiori and Minori. Tickets are available inside the train station.
CSTP ( 089 48 70 01; www.cstp.it ) bus 50 runs from Piazza Vittorio Veneto to Pompeii
(€2.20, 70 minutes, 17 daily). For Paestum (€3.40, one hour, hourly) take bus 34 from
Piazza della Concordia.
CAR & MOTORCYCLE
Salerno is on the A3 between Naples and Reggio di Calabria, which is toll-free from
Salerno southwards.
TRAIN
Salerno is a major stop on southbound routes to Calabria and the Ionian and Adriatic
coasts. From the station in Piazza Vittorio Veneto there are regular trains to Naples (IC;
€8.50, 35 minutes), Rome (Frecciarossa; €39, two hours) and Reggio di Calabria (IC; €41,
4½ hours).
Getting Around
Walking is the most sensible option; from the train station it's a 1.2km walk along Corso
Vittorio Emanuele II to the historic centre.
If you want to hire a car there's a Europcar (
089 258 07 75; www.europcar.com ; Via Clemente
Mauro 18) agency not far from the train station.
Paestum
Paestum's Unesco-listed temples are among the best-preserved monuments of Magna
Graecia, the Greek colony that once covered much of southern Italy. An easy day trip
from Salerno or Agropoli, they are one of the region's most iconic sights and absolutely
unmissable.
Paestum, or Poseidonia as the city was originally called (in honour of Poseidon, the
Greek god of the sea), was founded in the 6th century BC by Greek settlers and fell under
Roman control in 273 BC. It became an important trading port and remained so until the
fall of the Roman Empire, when periodic outbreaks of malaria and savage Saracen raids
led its weakened citizens to abandon the town.
 
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