With its 37 kilometres, it is among Cilento main watercourses, of which it is particularly rich. It rises from the slopes of mount Cervati, 900 metres of altitude from the spring of Varco La Pela in the municipality of Sanza.
The ancients venerated it as a water divinity and represented it with a prolific white beard and, in their hands, a vase where precious water was flowing.
Apart from its Lucanian origin, Tanagro is the river of Cilento and Vallo di Diano National Park, because it flows into it for most of its 92 meters course.
It is an integral part of the Cilento and Vallo di Diano National Park to which they were added later, the Alburni are a mountainous massif between the Sele valley and the Tanagro valley.
With its imposing 1899 meters high, the Cervati is the second of the highest mountains in Campania and the highest in Cilento.
Gebe el son, Monte dell’idolo. An official name of Arabic origins, which fits perfectly with the mountain of the Lucan Subappennines considered sacred at all times.
At sunset, the sleeping Lioness turns pink. Among the various denominations refering to Mount Bulgheria,
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