Defining the Geotourism Potential of the CILENTO, Vallo di Diano and Alburni UNESCO Global Geopark (Southern Italy)
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Geological Setting of the Cilento, Vallo di Diano and Alburni Geopark
3. Methods
4. Results
4.1. Geosites and Geomorphosites Evaluation
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- Thirty-one sites (19% of the total) gained an EV larger than three;
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- Twenty-one sites (13% of the total) gained a TV larger than three;
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- Sites with the highest scores of both indexes are mainly clustered in three areas: the coastal area between San Marco and Marina di Camerota; the inner sector between Mt. Vesole, to the west, and the Vallo di Diano basin to the east; the south-eastern corner of the Geopark between Mt. Centaurino and the Gulf of Policastro;
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- There are portions of the CVDA Geopark that already attract many tourists in the summer period, such as the Castellabate and the Palinuro cape area, which also exhibits high values of both the EV and TV indexes, thus suggesting their potential also as a geotourist attractor;
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4.2. The Geoitineraries
4.2.1. The Inner Geoitinerary
4.2.2. The Coastal Geoitinerary
5. Discussion and Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Conflicts of Interest
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Inner Geoitinerary | |||
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Site Label | Site Name | Field of Interest | Description |
10 | Paestum travertine | Quaternary geology | Travertines fed by the Capo di Fiume spring and accumulated near the archaeological area of Paestum |
9 | Capo di Fiume spring | Hydrogeology | Spring feeding travertine deposition near the archaeological area of Paestum |
8 | Lady of Granato (Mt. Vesole) | Paleontology | Limestone with fossil rich layers |
11 | Vesole-Chianello Mts. | Geomorphology | Cuesta-like ridge |
12 | Karst canyon of Magliano Vetere | Geomorphology | Fluvio-karst landform |
49 | Karst canyon of Laurino | Geomorphology | Fluvio-karst landform |
50 | Karst canyon of Piaggine | Geomorphology | Fluvio-karst landform |
73 | Sammaro spring | Hydrogeology | Karst spring |
74 | Karst canyon of Sacco | Geomorphology | Fluvio-karst landform |
2 | Old Roscigno | Geomorphology Applied Geology | Active landslide that caused the abandonment of the old town Roscigno |
57 | Cave of Vallicelli karst area | Geomorphology Geoarchaeology | Karst caves with human frequentation since Prehistoric time |
7 | Vallo di Diano basin | Geomorphology Quaternary Geology | Largest intramontane basin of the Southern Apennine |
Coastal Geoitinerary | |||
Site Label | Site Name | Field of Interest | Description |
85 | Punta Telegrafo | Structural geology Quaternary geology Geomorphology | Deformed bedrock units and marine terrace |
84 | Rizzico landslide | Applied Geology | Landslide potentially affecting the railway |
98 | Tyrrhenian deposits of Palinuro | Quaternary geology | Upper Pleistocene marine deposits |
97 | Fossil dunes of Palinuro | Quaternary geology | Upper Pleistocene aeolian deposits |
93 | Cliff of Capo Palinuro | Geomorphology | Limestone rocky coast |
91 | Fenestrella natural arc | Geomorphology | Karst landform on the rocky coast of Palinuro cape |
92 | Cala Fetente cave | Geomorphology | Cave along the rocky coast of Palinuro cape |
106 | Lambro and Mingardo rivers mouths | Geomorphology | Palinuro natural arc and entrenched meanders of the Lambro River |
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Valente, E.; Casaburi, A.; Finizio, M.; Papaleo, L.; Sorrentino, A.; Santangelo, N. Defining the Geotourism Potential of the CILENTO, Vallo di Diano and Alburni UNESCO Global Geopark (Southern Italy). Geosciences 2021, 11, 466. https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences11110466
Valente E, Casaburi A, Finizio M, Papaleo L, Sorrentino A, Santangelo N. Defining the Geotourism Potential of the CILENTO, Vallo di Diano and Alburni UNESCO Global Geopark (Southern Italy). Geosciences. 2021; 11(11):466. https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences11110466
Chicago/Turabian StyleValente, Ettore, Annarita Casaburi, Michele Finizio, Lorenzo Papaleo, Alessia Sorrentino, and Nicoletta Santangelo. 2021. "Defining the Geotourism Potential of the CILENTO, Vallo di Diano and Alburni UNESCO Global Geopark (Southern Italy)" Geosciences 11, no. 11: 466. https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences11110466