Cannalonga loop from Castelnuovo Cilento
Cannalonga loop from Castelnuovo Cilento
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Cannalonga loop from Castelnuovo Cilento
04:33
60.8km
1,360m
Mountain biking
Hard mountain bike ride. Very good fitness required. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is right next to a parking lot.
Last updated: April 7, 2026
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Parco Nazionale Cilento, Vallo di Diano e Alburni
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Start point
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10.4 km
Small Waterfall and Cyclamen Forest
Highlight • Waterfall
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10.9 km
Fountain on Via Pisacane, Ceraso
Highlight • Rest Area
And it is not to be excluded that some of them, in search of good wood to feed the shipyard of Velia, stopped, and then held back, on the large river terrace (river Palisco = mountain, today Palistro) at the mouth of which it was the northern port of Velia. A place that appeared to them very charming, seen from the top of the Tempe, rich as it was in cherry trees of the genus prunus. A terrace surrounded by long-standing tall trees.
They certainly stayed there when the locality became an important road junction. In fact, the fluvial road, the road along the Palistro, reached it; a short distance from that place passed the road to the Terre Rosse; from there the easy way started which, by today's Coste delle monache, led to the Alfa pass (Cannalonga) and from there into the Vallo di Diano.
However, it is certain that in the early Middle Ages the inhabited area in the place must have been particularly flourishing if in ancient documents it was indicated to locate nearby settlements.
A parchment dated 6 May 1149 by Pope Eugene III recognizes the monastery of Santa Barbara as “ubi Cerasus dicitur” (where it is called Ceraso) to the abbey of Cava. News confirmed by another of Pope Alexander II a few years later in January 1168.
The inhabited area also expanded due to its happy geographical position, in the center of the towns that were then to build its hamlets in the Napoleonic era, when the town was chosen as the capital of the Municipality. An important agricultural center, due to its very fertile alluvial soils, the town continued to develop gradually, achieving a singular building increase in recent years. This was determined by the improved economic conditions of the population which allowed not only the renovation of the old houses, equipping them with useful modern structures, but also allowed the construction of new housing, especially single-family homes.
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14.3 km
San Biase Village Center and Parish Church
Highlight • Settlement
Also worth seeing are the ancient water mill whose operation is powered by the river Palistro, the sulfur spring that you meet along a dirt path and the Passo della Beta, an old mule track used in the past by farmers and shepherds. Also worthy of attention are the frescoes of the Parish Church of San Biase, dating back to the 15th century.
Every year this hamlet hosts the "Bread Festival", in homage to the old mill that has always represented a resource for the whole community
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21.4 km
Cannalonga
Highlight • Historical Site
Probably founded by the inhabitants of Civitella around the 9th-10th century, tradition attributes to Cannalonga the original name of Tolve from the Latin terra ulvae or land of the ulva, a marsh plant that evidently coexisted with the reeds to which the current name of the town refers.
Cannalonga assumed great importance around 1450 because it was the site of a large September market, the Fiera della Frecagnola (which is still held today) and above all because it was the seat of the Banco della Giustizia which, since 1546, had jurisdiction over much of the mountain Cilento. This territory went as a dowry to the noble of Spanish origin Don Toribio Alfonso Mogrovejo in the year 1680. The most illustrious member of the noble family was Toribio, archbishop of Lima and Primate of Peru who, who died in 1680, was beatified and became the patron saint of the country .
The ancient village encloses a magnificent square overlooked by the ducal palace with its towers and its courtyard full of frescoes and marble statues. Traditional appointment is the historic Frecagnola fair.
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60.8 km
End point
Parking
Way Types & Surfaces
Way Types
54.3 km
4.51 km
2.05 km
Surfaces
40.1 km
18.4 km
2.05 km
356 m
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Elevation
Highest point (690 m)
Lowest point (20 m)
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Monday 29 June
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