Agriturismo La Petrosa

Housing

The farm holidays "La Petrosa" is composed of a central building and a camping area, as well as five apartrnent  and rooms in an old castle of 800 for bed and breakfast. The building of farm holidays centre, situated in Ceraso locality Petrosa, dates back to '700 and is made up of two floors. At the first floor there are two spacious vault premises what in past times have know the fragrance and gurgles of wine in fermentation, in fact this locality on the map of I.G.M. is referred as "Vineyard of the courtyard", today used for storehouse of forage, maize and wheat in grains. The present use is for holidays farm at the first floor of the same building while a small of hay exhales from the lower floor.

The central building offers six double rooms with bathroom and balcony, show-room for the sale of farm product5. The Palistro river, crossing farm, with trees of willows, poplars, eucalyptus and some oriental planes (botanic rarity) , characterize camping area for halting-place of caravans and tents (six emplacements); Camping area is provided with two groups of bathrooms provided with six showers, eight w. c., four wash-tubs and eight wash-basins, all obtained by silos used for forage warehouse a time ago.

The five apartments with panoramic view of surrounding farmlands, easily attainable also on foot, are ex farmhouses restructured for four or six people. Each apartment is in fact composed of two double rooms, a living room with a fireplace and a sofa bed, cooking comer and sanitary services. The master's house is a castle of 800, belonged to same local squires, with some rooms with bathroom inside. The customers may only spend the night, for the meals there is the restaurant located in the central complex easily attainable walking.

Services

RESTAURANT FACILITIES, Swimming pool, Riding school/Horse riding, Pets allowed, Local products, Oil and Wine production/tasting, Credit Cards accepted, Playground

Sport: Bowling green, Mountain Bike, Ping-Pong, Archery, Trekking, Golf

Internal Services: Final cleaning, Daily cleaning, Heating, TV in room, Communal television, Acces Internet

Educational activities: Educational activities, Guided tour of the farm

Courses: Courses Cuisine

Ceremonies: Ceremonies, Meeting rooms

External services: Barbecue, Car park, Tent sites, Plots for Camper, Rental Boats, Rental Bikes

Our typical dishes change with the seasons because they are all rich of fresh vegetables cultivated in our kitchen garden biologically.
Our cooking, strongly personalized, suggests local dishes making the most of Mediterranean tastes:
bread, past, cold cuts, cakes, Italian soft ice-cream, sweets, all made from flours of hard and tender wheat produced by the farm and served with the small of our extra-virgin olive-oil.

The variety of the pasta made at home is very large because it is seasoned and personalized by several sauces of meat and seasonal vegetable. We give articular attention to appetizing and greedy handling.

The pumpkin, for example, is the queen of our tables that we offer, for the most part of year , roasted, sauced in vinegar with noodles, tortelli, rondelle, all combined variously and much appreciated.

Surroundings

Inside of Campania, moving along Tyrrhenian coast, we find the farm holidays building situated in Ceraso town, place Petrosa, 80 Km far from Salerno and at only 10 minutes (6 Km) from Casalvelino and Ascea seaside. If we move towards north we may arrive at Acciaroli, a small and very characteristic tourist resort, with a small harbour and medieval towers caressed by the sea softly, acknowledge often as blue flag. Going south we pass by the ruins of Velia, an old Eleatic city inhabited by Parmenide and find Palinuro, earth kissed by Ulysses. Here it is possible to see when the sky is particularly clear , also some fins of dolphins breaking the waves of sea. The geographic position of Petrosa is much appreciated because if one moves towards the interior, goes into National Park of Cilento, favourite destination by lovers of nature and animals.