5 things to see in the Park of Elea-Velia

News about Elea-Velia

Elea-Velia is located in the Cilento and it's an important one archaeological site founded towards the 540 a.C. by the colonists focei.

At the time of the Greeks it was called Elea, afterwards, the Romans called it Velia. I also tell you this news Pliny in “natural History”.

The origin of the name of the Elea-Velia Park is rich in poetry: Elea derives from the Greek “a-skull” (place without shadows). In fact, it is an area rich in light! It is also famous for the philosophical school of Parmenides and Zeno.

The Elea-Velia park today

Today, of the ancient city, the excavations started in 1921 gives Amedeo Maiuri and continue later (1950s and 1960s).

The excavations of Elea-Velia are one of the most important symbols of the Cilento National Park. Today, his excavations, are a seaside tourist destination in the coastal area of Cilento.

E’ the second largest Italian park: it extends from the Tyrrhenian coast to there’Campania-Lucanian Apennines. Moreover, today again, retains many traces of the past and the presence of the man from Greek / Roman period.

The Elea-Velia park between sea and history

Have an area to visit that can give holidays and history from “savor” it's a golden opportunity: a perfect combination that can give wonderful moments.

Indeed, the Elea-Velia park, it is a place that, on the one hand it offers crystal clear sea for an enchanting holiday (Agropoli, Acciaroli, Castellabate, Capo Palinuro, Poplars and Marina di Camerota) and on the other the emotion of walking through the streets where the signs of the Agora are still found (the hole) of Velia in which philosophers of the Eleatic school such as Zeno surely walked, Melisso and Parmenide.

What are the five attractions of the Elea-Velia Park to see?

The area is a must see but there are five places that you should definitely visit: places that bring back to the past and that allow you not to forget it.

The areas that remind us of times gone by are:

• Porta Rosa: it is an arch that performed a double function. It connected the two neighborhoods of the city and in addition it was a viaduct that connected the two peaks of the acropolis;
• Porta Marina: it is similar to a bastion positioned on the edge of the clearing. The door is the western access to the city entrance: it is one of the most important of the seven gates of Pompeii;
• Terme Ellenistiche: it is the site of the museum complex;
• Southern District: this is where the visit to the ancient city starts. This neighborhood was explored by M.. Naples in the 1960s during the topographic reading programs of the city;
• Archaic neighborhood: where you can still see the signs of the Iron Age characterized by the presence of houses with wells and small ovens.

The awards at the Elea-Velia park

The archaeological area of Elea-Velia park has been recognized by theUnesco as a World Heritage Site.