Instead of Maratea
Instead of Maratea: coastal towns within 2 hours
Maratea is Basilicata's entire Tyrrhenian coastline, thirty kilometres of it, with a statue on the hill and a harbour below.
The Cilento above it and the Calabrian coast below are the same mountains falling into the same sea.
Coastal towns in our catalogue within 2 hours of Maratea by road, ranked by outside recognition. Maratea itself and the other famous places are left out. 11 towns match, and all of them are below.
Instead of Maratea
Maratea · 4,725 residents · Basilicata
- San Nicola ArcellaCosenza
Coastal town · Borgo dei Borghi
- From Maratea
- 25m by car
- Residents
- 1,957
- When to go
- May–Sep
- AsceaSalerno
Coastal town · UNESCO
- From Maratea
- 1h 33m by car
- By train
- Reachable
- Residents
- 5,750
- When to go
- May–Sep
- TrebisacceCosenza
Coastal town · Borghi più belli d'Italia
- From Maratea
- 1h 58m by car
- By train
- Reachable
- Residents
- 8,577
- When to go
- May–Sep
- AgropoliSalerno
Coastal town · Bandiera Blu
- From Maratea
- 1h 51m by car
- By train
- Reachable
- Residents
- 21,262
- When to go
- May–Sep
- PisciottaSalerno
Coastal town · Bandiera Blu
- From Maratea
- 1h 22m by car
- By train
- Reachable
- Residents
- 2,428
- When to go
- May–Sep
The 5 best-recognised of the 11 towns that match. Drive times measured by road from Maratea. More of them follow below.
San Nicola Arcella
Province: Cosenza · 110 m
A cliff village above the Tyrrhenian Riviera dei Cedri, where a sea arch fronts a cove only reachable on foot or by boat.
Ascea
Province: Salerno · 230 m
Two villages, a hilltown at 230 meters and a Cilento marina, with Parmenides and Zeno's Eleatic school in the ruins of Greek Velia below.
Trebisacce
Province: Cosenza · 73 m
A Bronze Age plateau above the Ionian Sea whose name comes from the Greek for small table, with a Byzantine mother church below.
Agropoli
Province: Salerno · 24 m
The gateway commune of the Cilento, a Byzantine acropolis on a promontory taken by the Saracens in 882 as a base for raids on Salerno.
Pisciotta
Province: Salerno · 171 m
A Cilento hilltop town of olive terraces above the Tyrrhenian, where fishermen still pull anchovies with a medieval net.
Corigliano-Rossano
Province: Cosenza · 219 m
The Sibari plain city merged in 2018 from two older towns, one built around a Norman castle and the other around a Byzantine manuscript tradition.
Centola
Province: Salerno · 336 m
A Cilento hill village at 336 meters whose seaside frazione carries the name of Aeneas' helmsman.
Camerota
Province: Salerno · 422 m
A Cilento hill town of 422 meters above the Costa degli Infreschi, its caves holding one of the longest prehistoric stratigraphies on the southern Tyrrhenian.
Praia a Mare
Province: Cosenza · 10 m
A Tyrrhenian beach town in the Gulf of Policastro, backed by mountains and facing an offshore island.
Villapiana
Province: Cosenza · 206 m
An Ionian commune where the Sibari plain meets the first slopes rising toward Pollino.
Belvedere Marittimo
Province: Cosenza · 150 m
A Riviera dei Cedri town on the Tyrrhenian, its castle set on the highest coastal hill above a convent that has kept a saint's relics for three centuries.
Drive times measured by road from Maratea. A town with no time shown is one the router could not reach, usually because it is served by ferry. How this data is built.