Travel
with us in style,
seeking for culture and
leisure.
PAESTUM
Paestum is one of
the most important archaeological sites of Italy.
It was founded around 600 B.C., by Greek colonists
from Sibari, under the name of Poseidonia.
Museum:
This includes the famous Methopes, low reliefs
in Doric style of the 6th century B.C., which
formed part of a small temple, near the Temple
of Hera at the mouth of the Sele River.
Also of extreme importance are the funerary paintings
found in numerous tombs, the most famous of these
being the Tomb of the Diver.
Temples
and Monuments: Reached through the "Sacred Way",
the temple of Hera (Juno), built in the 6th century
B.C., the peristyle of which comprises 50 archaic
fluted columns; the Temple of Neptune (Poseidon
in Greek) dating from the mid 5th century BC,
in an admirably pure Doric style; The Forum, the
Roman amphitheatre, and the Temple of Caeres.
BUFFALO
MOZZARELLA FACTORY
A walk through the
estate enables one to see the buffaloes, often
immersed in the water, from close to.
The walk continues with a visit to the stables
and the modern milking plant. In the dairy, of
course, one can watch the Mozzarella being made
and then go on to taste it and many of the other
products.
Recent restoration of the house has tried to respect
the characteristic features of the area, such
as Pompeiian red, on the outside, as well as when
restoring the inside of the buildings, where the
classic terracotta, the ceramics from Vietri and,
in some rooms, Travertine marble have been used.
Two large rooms have been made from the salons
of the ground floor, where nowadays cultural
meetings and art and book exhibitions are held.
The same care has been taken in the arrangement
of the barns, lofts and stables: floors made
of Tufo, boundary walls made from local stone,
avenues decorated with rose-beds and lemon trees.
Then, of course, the great enclosures where
the animals reign supreme.
The Palmieri Farm and the Vannulo Dairy offer
the possibility to discover in person both the
ancient and modern science of breeding these
animals, close relatives of Indian and North
American Buffaloes, and which are present in
only a few areas of Italy.
But a visit to the Vannulo Dairy enables one
to discover too the art, so refined in its simplicity,
of transforming milk into a tasty food, one
of the symbols of Italy abroad and a precious
item of the culture of this Country.
