Cape Palinuro
Cape Palinuro is located in southwestern Italy, approximately 40 miles southwest of Salerno, in southern part of Cilento region. It is supposedly named after Palinurus, the helmsman of Aeneas' ship in Virgil's Aeneid.Geography
Located on the Tyrrhenian Sea, the northern side of the cape is the location of Palinuro, a touristic hamlet of Centola. Southern side faces in the Gulf of Policastro, and is 6 km from Marina di Camerota.
It features a lighthouse that is the second highest, in all of Italy.
