National Park of "Cilento and Vallo di Diano" in the province of Salerno in the Campania region of Italy was established in 1991 to protect the territory of the Cilento coast from the mass tourism and construction. In 1998, the park was declared a World Cultural and Natural Heritage Site by UNESCO, along with the ancient Greek city of Paestum and Veliey and Carthusian monastery Certosa di Padula, situated in its territory. In addition to the "Cilento and Vallo di Diano" in the province of Salerno, there are also natural reserve "Foce Sele-Tanagra" and Marine Reserve "Punta Licosa".

The territory of the national park "Cilento and Vallo di Diano" - the second largest in Italy. The park stretches from the coast of the Tyrrhenian Sea to the foothills of the Apennines in Campania and Basilicata, and includes a large part of the Cilento coast, the forest Pruno, mountains Alburni, Chervati and Dzhelbison. The natural beauty and biodiversity of these sites successfully complete historical and cultural monuments and numerous myths and legends - stories from the nymph Licosa and Aeneas travels to the ruins of the ancient Greek colonies of Elea and Paestum. Untouched natural landscape of the park interspersed with the lands inhabited for thousands of years and processed by people.

Cilento - amazingly beautiful land, where verdant hills and olive groves of ash are reflected in the blue waters of the Tyrrhenian Sea, near the turbulent streams running here and there visible lunar landscapes and thickets of chestnut and oak trees, and on the high cliffs sheltered tiny old village.

The park has registered about 1800 species of plants, one in ten of which are endemic or rare species. The most famous of them, have become a real symbol of the park is the Primrose, she primrose. No less diverse fauna and Cilento, due to a large variety of local ecosystems - there are coastal and mountainous areas, wild rivers and streams, cliffs and forests. On the tops of mountains and highland pastures are rare golden eagles, peregrine falcons, Lanner Falcon, rock partridge and Alpine Chough.

Numerous caves of Cilento and Vallo di Diano from ancient times are chosen were people who were in their shelter. The earliest traces of human presence dating back to the Middle Paleolithic (approximately 500 thousand years ago), and in coastal caves between Palinuro and Scario were discovered primitive tools of our primitive ancestors.