Ogliastro Marina, sometimes shortened as ''Ogliastro'', is a southern

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village and hamlet (''

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'') of

Castellabate Castellabate ( Cilentan: ''Castiellabbate'') is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Salerno in the Campania region of south-western Italy. History The area was inhabited since Upper Palaeolithic times. In early medieval times, the current ...

, a municipality in the

province of Salerno The Province of Salerno ( it, Provincia di Salerno) is a province in the Campania region of Italy. __TOC__ Geography The largest towns in the province are: Salerno, the capital, which has a population of 131,950; Cava de' Tirreni, Battipagli ...

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. As of 2009 its population was of 172.

History

Originally mentioned as village, it became a farmhouse (''casale'') part of the

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of '' Castello dell'Abate''. It hosted a little port, named ''Olearola'', owned by the Abbey of Cava de' Tirreni and used to trade with

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and

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Geography

Ogliastro Marina is located in northern Cilento, along the

Cilentan Coast The Cilento Coast ( Italian: ''Costiera Cilentana'') is an Italian stretch of coastline in Cilento, on the southern side of the Province of Salerno. It is situated between the gulfs of Salerno and Policastro, extending from the municipalities ...

by the

Tyrrhenian Sea The Tyrrhenian Sea (; it, Mar Tirreno , french: Mer Tyrrhénienne , sc, Mare Tirrenu, co, Mari Tirrenu, scn, Mari Tirrenu, nap, Mare Tirreno) is part of the Mediterranean Sea off the western coast of Italy. It is named for the Tyrrhenian pe ...

. It spans from the junction of the national highway SS 267 to the entrance of the natural area of

Licosa Licosa is a southern Italian village and hamlet (''frazione'') of Castellabate, a municipality in the province of Salerno, Campania. As of 2009 its population was of 82. History The toponym derives from the Greek word Λευκωσία (Leukosia ...

.Ogliastro Marina on castellabateonline.com
/ref> The village is divided from the nearby hamlet of

Case del Conte Case del Conte, sometimes also spelled ''Casa del Conte'', is a southern Italian village and hamlet (''frazione'') of Montecorice, a municipality in the province of Salerno, Campania. As of 2009 its population was of 235. History The toponym mean ...

(in the ''comune'' of Montecorice) by Rio dell'Arena river and shares with it a large beach. The settlement is divided into a pair of inhabited areas, named Baia dell'Arena (east) and Punta di Ogliastro (west), with a coastal park in the middle. The village is 5 km far from

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, 7 from Santa Maria and

, 8 from Montecorice, 9 from

Agnone Agnone is a ''comune'' in the province of Isernia, in the Molise region of southern Italy, some northwest of Campobasso. Agnone is known for the manufacture of bells by the Marinelli Bell Foundry. The town of Agnone proper is complemented with ...

and 20 from

Agropoli Agropoli is a town and ''comune'' located in the Cilento area of the province of Salerno, Campania, Italy. It is situated at the start of the Cilentan Coast, on the Tyrrhenian Sea. History Pre-medieval period The promontory on which Agropoli ...

Natural environment

Ogliastro is surrounded by hills whose main vegetation is the maquis shrubland (''macchia''). In 2006 and 2012, the beach near Rio dell'Arena was the set of a rare naturalistic event: the egg-laying of a

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(''caretta caretta'')."Ogliastro, the return of the turtles"
(archivio.denaro.it)

Gallery

File:Torre di ogliastro marina (castellabate).JPG, Ogliarola Tower File:Croceoglm.JPG, Beginning point of the trail of ''Olearola'' File:Ogliastro Marina.JPG, The beach of Ogliastro (left) and Case del Conte (right)

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