Punta Campanella

Punta Campanella is the extreme part of the Sorrento Peninsula, which stretches towards the island of Capri. In December 1997 the Ministry of Environment decreed this area as Sea Reserve , for its important value from naturalistic, landscaping, historical points of view.

Its territory is highly uneven, it alternates between barren, sunny slopes and deep valleys. The coast is characterised by calcareous walls, which can be steep – above all on the southern parts – or gently sloping towards the sea with numerous inlets and small bays, which offer the visitor a wonderful sight. This wild, apparently inhospitable environment, is dotted with an extraordinary rich flora composed, near the sea, by sparse dwarf shrubs typical of the “gariga”, and on the inside, by macchia-grassland, with myrtle, rosemary, juniper, holm oaks, strawberry trees. In spring and in summer a wonderful fountain of colours is given by many plants in bloom, while the fragrance of aromatic plants, like Lobularia maritime – with its characteristic honey fragrance – fennel and rosemary, waft through the air. In these wild and uncontaminated places, in their estate in Punta Campanella, the Company “I Giardini di Cataldo” pick wild plants, like myrtle and fennel seeds, to be used for the production of their liqueurs whose flavour and aroma are really unmistakable.