The philosophy of roots: naturalistic and sensory walk inside of the Archaeological Park of Elea-Velia.

The experience

Inside the archaeological park of Elea-Velia in Ascea Marina, located between the sea and the green hills, along the Cilento coast, we have the opportunity to walk there, where important philosophers and doctors did so in the past. There, where men built strong boats and produced bricks, oil, wine, perfumes and dried fish. There, where medical treatment with the use of plants originated and where our Western thought was born… This journey starts from the southern district of the city to lead us towards the top of a panoramic acropolis overlooking the sea, through the overlapping of ruins from the Greek, Roman and medieval eras, completely immersed in a naturalistic environment and surrounded by the same landscape that welcomed on these shores the first migrants. This activity invites you to observe the typical flora of the Mediterranean scrub, with its most characteristic and spontaneous tree species, revealing uses, customs and the mythology linked to them; listening to the words of the philosophers who were thought and written here and who find their voice through the brief reading of some symbolic passages of human philosophy. For the occasion we give you a special notebook which becomes your “travel diary” to take with you, where you can collect ideas, thoughts, observations, memories and build your own souvenir of impressions arising in the place where the air still shines with motivation and history seems to flow from one time to another, involving anyone who walks on this soil.