The best road cycling routes around Pellezzano

Cetara is a charming and authentic fishing village on the Amalfi Coast in Campania, located in the province of Salerno and protected as a UNESCO World Heritage site. Unlike other locations on the coast, Cetara has preserved its strong identity linked to the fishing tradition almost intact, remaining largely sheltered from mass tourism. The village is world-famous for its gastronomic excellences, first and foremost the renowned Colatura di Alici di Cetara DOP.

Vietri sul Mare is the last town on the Amalfi Coast to the south and is known for its ceramists

Clear sea, in the summer you can go there for a nice swim. I was there at the end of January returning from a circular excursion Vietri - Raito - Albori - Cetara and then stopping at the Albori marina.

The Ave Gratia Plena Minor Conservatory, an ancient monastery used as a Conservatory of the Pietà for the young and noble women of Salerno, who studied music there. Currently, it houses the youth hostel, and only the courtyard can be visited, featuring an artistic fountain and a "Catalan" loggia.

The church of Sant'Andrea Apostolo, called dell'Annunziatella di Salerno is located in via Canali, in the ancient Lombard quarter of the city. Inaugurated in 1758, it was used by girls hospitalized in the nearby conservatory who could access it directly from the second floor of the institution, through an entrance made with the transformation of the right wing of the portico paintings. Of the two reserved choirs, one is placed on the high altar, protected by an elegant gilded wooden grille, and the other on the entrance portal. The facade is decorated with white motifs on an ocher yellow background and has a stone portal flanked by two niches surrounded by stucco frames and surmounted by a tympanum bearing the conservatory's coat of arms. A fountain with a characteristic domed roof leans against the recently renovated façade. The interior, decorated with Baroque stuccos, has a single nave with side chapels in which, enclosed in frames, there are eighteenth-century paintings depicting: "San Domenico and San Francesco", "San Carlo Borromeo", "The transit of San Joseph". The high altar was built in polychrome marble between 1767 and 1772 on a project by the engineer Carlo Sessa, by master Pasquale Cartolano.

The Via dei Mercanti of Salerno is an ancient road that crosses the entire historic center of Salerno, representing the main communication and trade route since the Middle Ages. Around the year 1000, the Via dei Mercanti was called Drapparia, because it had shops of "drapes" (traded fabrics) of the Lombard principality of Salerno.

The church of the Santissimo Crocifisso is a Catholic place of worship in Salerno, located on via dei Mercanti, the main commercial street in the historic center of the city. The church dates back to before the thirteenth century and was originally called the "church of Santa Maria della Pietà di Portanova". It was annexed to the contiguous and homonymous monastery, not very far from the Cathedral; it was then associated with the more powerful monastery of San Benedetto. It owes its name to the fact that there was a venerated cross on a panel, painted in the thirteenth century, now kept in the diocesan museum. The church overlooks a small square, obtained from the demolition of dilapidated buildings in 1928, the year in which the Baroque-style facade was also built. Following the flood of 1956, the current facade was built.

Piazza Portanova is the access to the historic centre. The door, rebuilt in the eighteenth century, leads into the beautiful and scenic Piazza Flavio Gioia, known as the Rotonda due to the arched shape of the buildings that form the backdrop. In Roman times, villas and industrial establishments crowded the Portanova district, which today instead shows a marked commercial vocation. Piazza Portanova is in fact located between the beginning of via Mercanti and corso Vittorio Emanuele, the main shopping streets in Salerno. The square takes its name from the presence of a gate located at the beginning of via dei Mercanti, destroyed by a flood and then rebuilt "nova", to make way for Castel Terracena. The gate that until the 19th century closed the walls of the eastern border of the city is located on the side towards the sea, between Piazza Portanova and Piazza Flavio Gioia. It was built in 1754, to replace a previous one, by the master Ragozzino. At its top is a grandiose statue of St. Matthew, the patron saint and protector of the city, by the sculptor Francesco Pagano.