From September 27th to October 12th, the Paestum Hot Air Balloon Festival in Cilento offers the truly unique opportunity to admire the famous temples from the sky. Visitors can enjoy free flights, tethered flights, kite displays, and a children’s play area.
Imagine the sky of Paestum filled with dozens of colorful hot air balloons and imagine the opportunity to admire the famous temples and, more generally, the beauty of Cilento from above. We are in Campania, a land that needs no introduction, and here from September 27th to October 12th, the Paestum Balloon Festival will be held, a truly unique and evocative event.

Those who wish can experience the thrill of a free flight, departing from the archaeological area and landing in complete safety on a flat spot identified during the flight. The flight can also be an opportunity to satisfy your curiosity about the world of hot air balloons directly from the pilots. The minimum height to participate is 120 cm. Inflations and takeoff: in the morning at 7:30 a.m. and in the afternoon at 4:30 p.m.

For the more cautious, there is an area within the village specifically set up for tethered hot air balloon flights. These balloons, anchored to the ground with special ropes, rise approximately 20-25 meters, offering the truly evocative opportunity to see the temples of Paestum from above.

Yesterday evening, in Piazza Caduti del Mare, sports journalist Pierluigi Pardo opened the event that continues to be a great success, becoming a regular event in the summer season of the village. The well-known Roman commentator is just one of the many names that will characterize the entire event.

The other illustrious guests are: Luca Ward on June 28 (San Marco Port Area), Lunetta Savino on July 6 (Piazza X Ottobre 1123 – Castellabate Capoluogo), Marco Rossetti on July 9 (Piazza Caduti del Mare – Santa Maria), Giampaolo Morelli on July 11 (Piazza Madre Teresa di Calcutta – Lago), Stefano Fresi on July 19 (Castello dell’Abate – Castellabate Capoluogo), Alessandro Di Battista on July 27 (Castello dell’Abate – Castellabate Capoluogo) and Domenico Iannacone on August 11 (San Marco Port Area). An itinerant journey through the various hamlets of the Municipality that will allow you to get to know the great personalities of the world of entertainment, journalism, politics and more in all their aspects.

“Yesterday evening already marked a truly unmissable first event for Castellabate. Pardo was an incredible entertainer, a true showman who cheered up the debut of ColtoCircuito, inaugurating, after Lungomare Vivo, the rich calendar of events for 2025. A program that will also go beyond the summer season, until the month of December for a continuous and transversal cultural offer”, declares the Mayor of Castellabate, Marco Rizzo.

“The third edition of the ColtoCircuito event confirms itself as the flagship of the cultural and recreational offerings of the Municipality of Castellabate and the entire Cilento. Quality meetings, with big names, for citizens and tourists. The topics covered range from sports, to cinema, through current affairs. A event conceived, desired and financed by the Municipal Administration because a good public administrator must invest concretely in culture, music, theater, entertainment to ensure that knowledge and discussion on the many themes that characterize our times grow more and more”, adds the Councilor for Culture, Luigi Maurano.

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The lights of Salerno, in fact, were turned on for the first time during the 2006 Christmas holidays. The format, in reality, was taken from a similar event held in the city of Turin with which, starting from 2009, it was born an ideal twinning. This led to the exchange of numerous works of art between the two cities. In Salerno, however, over the years works specially commissioned by various artists have been installed.

The event, not surprisingly, takes this name. Luci d’Artista wants to underline, in fact, the cultural value of the initiative. Those on display, in fact, are not simple Christmas lights, but rather real artistic installations, works of art, which decorate the urban environments of the city. The high cultural value of the initiative has been highlighted several times by industry experts.

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Our facilities have large swimming pools, panoramic terraces, olive and citrus gardens, barbecues and pergolas where you can admire the beautiful sea scenery. The comforts inside are designed to guarantee you comfort and relaxation: kitchens equipped with refrigerator, oven, washing machine and microwave, spacious bedrooms, bathrooms, spacious living rooms, TVs, air conditioning and much more.

The Province of Salerno, with the provision of the Cultural Networks and Systems sector, reopens the Arechi Castle to the public starting from tomorrow 15 October with opening from 9.00 to 17.00 from Tuesday to Saturday 9.00/15.00 on Sundays .

“We are giving the Arechi Castle back to the city – declares the provincial councilor delegated for culture Francesco Morra – after the closure decided last August following the fire that affected Mount Bonadies, given that the necessary safety conditions did not exist both for the visitors and staff. Now we are finally able to open to the public having eliminated the extremely dangerous factors. In fact, the Province of Salerno has carried out an intervention to remove the greenery in the access path to the Castle from the lower car park to the upper viewpoint.

Therefore the access road to the Castle is passable, while the path system and in particular the path called “Del Principe” and the two paths leading to the Bastille remain closed to visitors.”

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The second edition of Cilento Tastes is coming, at “NEXT – former tobacco factory of Capaccio-Paestum”, the event created to give voice to the “Cilento brand” with its artisans of taste, on 27, 28 and 29 September.

The appointment is Friday 27 September at 7.00 pm, while on Saturday and Sunday the event takes place from 11.00 am to 12.00 am.

It is a great food and wine showcase that puts the spotlight on the biodiversity and excellence of Cilento, the epicenter of the Mediterranean diet. In the wake of the success of the first edition, which saw the participation of 100 artisans, 9,000 visitors and 400 media who talked about it, an even more engaging second edition is expected, with lots of entertainment for adults and children. Not just food and wine, but an all-round event that describes Cilento as a unitary brand made up of agri-food, artisanal products, artefacts and intangible elements such as culture, history, knowledge and traditions.

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The airport will return active after a series of expansion and adaptation works begun in 2019 by Gesac, the company that has taken it over since that year and which also takes care of Naples Capodichino airport.

The most significant works will finish in spring, and for this reason in mid-January Gesac had obtained authorization for take-offs and landings from Enav, the company that manages Italian air traffic. The most recent news is that on Wednesday the first airline that will operate at the airport was announced: it is the Spanish Volotea, which has scheduled the first flight to Nantes, France, for 11 July, and to Cagliari on 13 July.

For the moment, Volotea has announced a total of four connections from Salerno airport: the other two are for Italy, Catania and Verona, and should start from 2 September. For all 4 connections the flight frequency will be twice a week. Flights can already be purchased on the company’s website. Volotea already has 23 connections in Campania, but from Capodichino.

The airport is actually in the province of Salerno, between the municipalities of Bellizzi and Pontecagnano Faiano, about twenty kilometers south of Salerno. It was built in 1926, but was small and not suitable for commercial flights. For a long time it was used for various purposes, for example as the headquarters of various flight schools or as a base for the units of some law enforcement bodies that use aircraft. In 2007 it was adapted for commercial traffic for the first time: among other things, four check-in desks, two boarding areas and baggage carousels were built.

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Our facilities have large swimming pools, panoramic terraces, olive and citrus gardens, barbecues and pergolas where you can admire the beautiful sea scenery. The comforts inside are designed to guarantee you comfort and relaxation: kitchens equipped with refrigerator, oven, washing machine and microwave, spacious bedrooms, bathrooms, spacious living rooms, TVs, air conditioning and much more.

Cilento is famous for its unspoiled nature, incredible historical sites and beautiful beaches on the coast. The National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is characterized by rugged, wild vegetation that faces directly into the expanses of clear blue waters of the Tyrrhenian Sea. The enchanting beaches of Ogliastro Marina, Santa Maria and San Marco di Castellabate are the meeting of sea and land, and still retain a timeless charm and beauty.

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