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Acciaroli
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Country: Italy
Region: Campania
Province: Salerno
Municipality: Pollica
Location: 40°11′N, 15°2′E
Population: 1,000
Elevation: 6
Postal code: 84068
Dialing code: 0974
Gentilic: Acciarolesi
Website: Acciaroli

Acciaroli is an italian hamlet (frazione) of Pollica (SA), located in Campania region and the greatest one of its comune. Image File history File links Flag_of_Italy. ... In political geography and international politics, a country is a political division of a geographical entity, a sovereign territory, most commonly associated with the notions of state or nation and government. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Italy. ... The Regions of Italy were granted a degree of regional autonomy in the 1948 constitution, which states that the constitutions role is: to recognize, protect and promote local autonomy, to ensure that services at the State level are as decentralized as possible, and to adapt the principles and laws... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... For other uses, see Campania (disambiguation). ... In Italy, a province (in Italian: provincia) is an administrative division of intermediate level between municipality (comune) and region (regione). ... Image File history File links Provincia_di_Salerno-Stemma. ... Salerno (Italian: Provincia di Salerno) is a province in the Campania region of Italy. ... Municipalities of Italy In Italy, the comune, (plural comuni) is the basic administrative unit of both provinces and regions, and may be properly approximated in casual speech by the English word township or municipality. ... Pollica is a town and comune in the province of Salerno in the Campania region of south-western Italy. ... Basic Definition In geography, the elevation of a geographic location is its height above mean sea level (or some other fixed point). ... Italys: postal code system is called CAP(Codice di Avviamento Postale). ... Here are a list of area codes in Italy. ... A demonym or gentilic is a word that denotes the members of a people or the inhabitants of a place. ... A website (alternatively, Web site or web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos and other digital assets that is hosted on one or several Web server(s), usually accessible via the Internet, cell phone or a LAN. A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML... A frazione, in Italy, is the name given in administrative law to a type of territorial subdivision of a comune; for other subdivisions, see municipio, circoscrizione, quartiere. ... Pollica is a town and comune in the province of Salerno in the Campania region of south-western Italy. ... Salerno (Italian: Provincia di Salerno) is a province in the Campania region of Italy. ... For other uses, see Campania (disambiguation). ...

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Geography

Acciaroli lies in the central side of Cilento, by Tyrrhenian Sea, and it is the greatest port of its "comune" (the other is on the hamlet of Pioppi). The town is far 6 kms from Pollica, 20 from Santa Maria di Castellabate, 17 from Velia, 30 from Agropoli, and 70 from Salerno. National Park nearby Cannalonga Cilento is an italian geographical region of Campania, in the central and southern part of the Province of Salerno; and an important tourist area of southern Italy. ... Tyrrhenian Sea. ... In Italy, the comune, (plural comuni) is the basic administrative unit of both provinces and regions, and may be properly approximated in casual speech by the English word township or municipality. ... Velia is an ancient town located on the territory of the modern comune of Ascea, Salerno, Campania, Italy in a geographical sub-area named Cilento. ... Agropoli is an important city of the pristine area called Cilento in the province of Salerno, in the Campania region of Italy, located at the beginning of the Cilento coast, on the Tyrrhenian Sea. ... Salerno is a town in Campania, south-western Italy, the capital of the province of the same name. ...


Tourism

The town is a part of "Cilento and Vallo di Diano National Park", which natural environment is composed of "Maquis", typical of mediterranean countries. It is strongly receptive for tourism, expecially on summer; principally because it has gained a national fame due to the quality of its water, which give it the Blue Flag beach[1], and the "5 sails" of Legambiente (an italian environmentalist association) every summer from many years. Maquis (French) or macchia (Italian; plural macchie) is a shrubland biota in Mediterranean countries, typically consisting of densely-growing evergreen shrubs such as sage, juniper and myrtle. ... Composite satellite image of the Mediterranean Sea. ... Tourists on Oahu, Hawaii Tourism is travel for predominantly recreational or leisure purposes or the provision of services to support this leisure travel. ... This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ... A Blue Flag beach is a maritime or freshwater recreational beach that has met stringent quality standards during the whole of the previous bathing season. ...


Curiosity

Some years after World War II, the place was one of the stays of the writer Ernest Hemingway, during his italian trips. Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. ...


References

A Blue Flag, a "symbol" for the town
  1. ^ Blueflag.org

See also

  • Pollica
  • Cilento
  • Cilento and Vallo di Diano National Park

Pollica is a town and comune in the province of Salerno in the Campania region of south-western Italy. ... National Park nearby Cannalonga Cilento is an italian geographical region of Campania, in the central and southern part of the Province of Salerno; and an important tourist area of southern Italy. ...

External links

  • Acciaroli (official site) (IT)
  • Comune of Pollica (IT)
  • Acciaroli on Italian Guide (IT)


 
 

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