Cape Palinuro is located in southeastern Italy

Italy

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, approximately 40 miles (64 km) southwest of Salerno

Salerno

Salerno is a city and comune in Campania and is the capital of the province of the same name. It is located on the Gulf of Salerno on the Tyrrhenian Sea....

, in southern part of Cilento

Cilento

Cilento is an Italian geographical region of Campania in the central and southern part of the Province of Salerno and an important tourist area of southern Italy.-Geography:...

 region. It is supposedly named after Palinurus

Palinurus

Palinurus, in Roman mythology, is the helmsman of a ship of the Trojan hero Aeneas, whose descendants would one day found the city of Rome. As the price for the safe passage of Aeneas and his people from Sicily to Italy, Palinurus loses his life, one on behalf of many Palinurus, in Roman mythology,...

, the helmsman of Aeneas

Aeneas

Aeneas , in Greco-Roman mythology, was a Trojan hero, the son of the prince Anchises and the goddess Aphrodite. His father was the second cousin of King Priam of Troy, making Aeneas Priam's second cousin, once removed. The journey of Aeneas from Troy , which led to the founding a hamlet south of...

' ship in Virgil's

Virgil's

Virgil's can refer to:*Virgil's Root Beer, an American root beer*St Virgil's College, an Australian school*Anything relating to the Roman poet Publius Vergilius Maro, better known as Virgil*Virgil's tomb...

 Aeneid

Aeneid

The Aeneid is a Latin epic poem, written by Virgil between 29 and 19 BC, that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who travelled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans. It is composed of roughly 10,000 lines in dactylic hexameter...

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Geography

Northern side of the cape is the location of Palinuro

Palinuro

Palinuro is a small town, the most populated civil parish of Centola, Province of Salerno, in the Campania region of Italy. The name of the town is derived from Palinurus, the helmsman of Aeneas, as recorded in the fifth and sixth books of the Aeneid.- Geography :Palinuro lies on the southern...

, a touristic hamlet of Centola

Centola

Centola is a town and comune in the province of Salerno in the Campania region of south-western Italy.-Hamlets:The town of Centola has 4 hamlets :*Palinuro: The greatest one, located by the sea...

. Southern side faces in the Gulf of Policastro, and is far 6 km from Marina di Camerota

Marina di Camerota

Marina di Camerota is an Italian town, the largest hamlet of Camerota, situated in the province of Salerno, Campania. In 2007 it had a population of 3,500 inhabitants.-Geography:...

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External links

• Palinuro information website