Cape Palinuro | |
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 A view of Capo Palinuro with the lighthouse on the top | |
  Location in Campania  Cape Palinuro (Italy) | |
| Coordinates: 40°01′35″N 15°16′30″E / 40.02639°N 15.27500°E |
Cape Palinuro (Italian: Capo Palinuro) is located in southwestern Italy, approximately 50 miles (80 km) southeast of Salerno, in southern part of Cilento region. It is supposedly named after Palinurus, the helmsman of Aeneas' ship in Virgil's Aeneid.[1]
- ^ Virgil Aeneid, ed. and trans. Dryden, John Perseus Project Retrieved on 1 February 2011.