Campania
Campania is a region of Southern Italy, bordering on Lazio to the
north-west, Molise
to the north, Puglia
to the north-east, Basilicata to the east, and the Tyrrhenian
Sea to the west. The region covers 13,595 km˛
and has a population of 5.7 million.
The name directly comes from Latin, as it was
called by Romans Campania
felix (lucky countryland).
The regional capital is Naples (Napoli).
The region is divided into five provinces: Avellino, Benevento, Caserta, Napoli and Salerno.
Tourist attractions include the Sibyl's cave at Cumae, the Greek
temples at Paestum, the Roman ruins
at Pompeii and
Herculaneum,
the volcanoes of Vesuvius and Solfatara, the Costiera Amalfitana
from Sorrento
to Salerno, and the islands of Capri and Ischia.
