Car Rental Salerno

Salerno is a city of the same name Gulf in the Campania region in the South of Italy with approximately 150,000 inhabitants on an area of nearly 60 square kilometers. Very picturesque town in the northern half of the almost semi-circular Bay of the Tyrrhenian nestles the sea. The port city of Salerno is first mentions already in the second century before Christ, when the Greek until then settlement became the colony of the Roman Empire.

In the middle ages Salerno by his already famous medical school did emerged, which was founded almost as a part of the nearby monastery of Monte Cassino. Sick people from all over Europe came in their search for healing in the picturesque Salerno, particularly as there had translated a former stand type works from Arabic into Latin. The impressive monastery with its unique architecture, the master Bramante himself to have participated in the, is very picturesque on a 516 M High Hill, and is ideal to reach with a rental car.

The Castello di Arechi, which sits as a landmark on the Bonadies on the city of Salerno is no less impressive. The Castle, which is still from the time of the Norman, was named in the seventh century after the the Lombard Lords. In the Duomo di S. Matteo, the Cathedral of Salerno, are bedded equal to two figures to the last peace. Once the Saint Gregory is located here, but also the Evangelist Matthew is to be buried here.

With a rental car, a visit to the nearly 50 kilometres away Paestum worthwhile also. As an archaeological sensation, here are the three of the best preserved Temple of Doric time around the world to see.