Get to Vico Equense

The "Social World Film Festival" will be held on the picturesque scenery of the Sorrento peninsula from 26th to 29th May 2011.

Vico Equense is a city that offers many possibilities for tourism. Here are the major attractions of the area.

MUSEO MINERALOGICO CAMPANO
The Mineralogical Museum of Vico Equense is located in Via San Ciro No. 2. It was established in 1992 by the Fondazione Discepolo. In the Museum is housed the largest collection of minerals that has 3500 specimens from around the world and collected by Mr. Pasquale Discepoli. Since 1997, he opened the paleontological section where are on display dinosaur fossils (eggs, claws, teeth) and splendid examples of notosauro and mesosauro.
Further information is available on site www.museomineralogicocampano.it

ANTIQUARIO SILIO ITALICO
The Museum Antique Silio Italico, site in Filangieri Course at the Municipal Building, houses in three halls some 200 exhibits of various civilizations (Greek, Etruscan and Italic), testimony of the urban settlement between the seventh and third centuries BC.
Are exposition ceramics, buccheri and Etruscan bronzes, vases and cups Ionic and Corinthian vases, jewelry and weapons. The modern construction through educational panels also reconstructs the events of Necropolis, where at various stages since 1965 have been found about 200 graves.

MUSEO DI ARTE SACRA
The Sacred Art Museum, housed since 1995 at the Convent of San Vito, is a cross-section of religious art through the centuries XVI and XVIII of many Italian regions. The paintings on display come from churches and convents of the order and represent various saints and holy subjects. Beautiful coral and silver frontals of Sicilian manufacture of the seventeenth century and an ivory crucifix of the Roman school of the eighteenth century.

ECOMUSEO CITES
The Salesian House of Pacognano, surrounded by a large park with tree-lined streets, houses the National Museum of CITES, which opened in 2001. The Museum is unique in its kind, is home to about six hundred stuffed animal and plant specimens from around the world, all endangered species protected by international convention (CITES) in 1973. Among the many curiosities of this modern and natural "chamber of wonders", the head of a rhinoceros, a cast of a dolphin-sized objects made ​​of ivory and skins of exotic animals.

SCRAJO TERME
The sulfur water (salt - bromine - iodine) of Scrajo has many properties that allow use in all forms of thermal therapy. The action is more characteristic of the anti-inflammatory that is used in all of chronic diseases of the musculoskeletal system, skin, respiratory and female genital apparatus.

CASTELLO GIUSSO
In the heart of the city center of Vico Equense, on tuffaceous headland overlooking the Sorrento Peninsula, stands the majestic and elegant castle of Charles II of Anjou.

For more information:
www.comune.vicoequense.na.it
www.museomineralogicocampano.it
www.costiera.it
www.turismoregionecampania.it
www.eptnapoli.info