Between the stone bridges and the farmhouses

Sky and sea are so blue that you can’t tell where one begins and the other ends. If there were a “blue flag” award (annual Italian award given to the most beautiful beaches) for the transparency of the horizon, that of Agropoli would be awarded at least as much as its sea, one of the most crystalline in Italy. The buzzard also seems to tell us about it, flying undisturbed and regal in search of food even on the state road that reaches Agropoli, where certainly the traffic of cars is more intense than in the countryside.

The walk is easy, without difficulty, the climbs are simple and so are the descents. You would almost want to walk with your eyes closed, letting yourself be guided by instinct. You walk slowly because everything here invites you to calm down. Each step along this path along the sea evokes a colorful image such as myrtle, lentisco, euphorbia, lemon, scented with salt carried by the wind. The Mediterranean and its vegetation are a therapy for head and heart.

Along the edges of the path, the remains of the famous thirteen local stone bridges still resist the wear and tear of time. It is necessary to move away from the main road to admire their splendid keystone structure, testimony of the Bourbon era. The remains of the farmhouses of the peasants, scattered here and there along the whole route, however, are still living traces of how the hill was important for people's lives even at the beginning of the 1900s.

Built with the characteristic dry stone wall, with farmyards well separated from the rest of the houses, with high windows through which the sky enters explosively and with majestic vegetation that slowly occupied the spaces that were once lived by people, they are a fascinating and at the same time nostalgic example of how life once was simple, slow and close to the sea.