{"id":3705,"date":"2017-03-20T18:53:48","date_gmt":"2017-03-20T17:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marbellaclub.it\/storia-e-mito-di-palinuro\/"},"modified":"2022-02-28T11:57:26","modified_gmt":"2022-02-28T10:57:26","slug":"the-legend-of-palinuro","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marbellaclub.it\/en\/the-legend-of-palinuro\/","title":{"rendered":"The legend of Palinuro"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>The story of Palinuro in Roman mythology<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2218 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.marbellaclub.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Cenotafio-di-Palinuro.jpg\" alt=\"Cenotafio di Palinuro\" width=\"267\" height=\"189\" data-big-size=\"267x189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.marbellaclub.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Cenotafio-di-Palinuro.jpg 267w, https:\/\/www.marbellaclub.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Cenotafio-di-Palinuro-150x106.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.marbellaclub.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Cenotafio-di-Palinuro-250x177.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 267px) 100vw, 267px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Palinuro has a fascinating history, thanks also to the legends that surround the wild beauty of Cape Palinuro. In fact, the resort is protected by the immense arch of craggy rock that extends out to sea, sheltering the bay the provides a shelter and a natural harbour for seafarers. This is how it must have appeared years ago to the Argonauts, the Phoenicians and the Greeks who sailed around these parts.<\/p>\n<p>The name of the resort itself calls to mind the figure of the helmsman of Aeneas \u2013 called Palinurus \u2013 who fell in love with a beautiful young girl called Kamarat\u00f2n (hence Camerota) and followed her image to the bottom of the sea in the cape that, since then, has been known as Cape Palinuro.<\/p>\n<p>Palinurus was a famous figure in Roman mythology, the legendary helmsman of Aeneas, he fell into the sea at night, betrayed by the God of Sleep while he was leading the fleet towards Italy. Before reaching the coasts of Lazio, Aeneas had passed in front of what is known today as Cape Palinuro and there, one night, his helmsman Palinurus fell into the sea by divine intervention. In exchange for a promise to protect Aeneas, made to his mother Venus, Neptune had asked for a victim. This is why Palinurus died, despite having succeeded in swimming to the shore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The story of Palinuro in Roman mythology Palinuro has a fascinating history, thanks also to the legends that surround the wild beauty of Cape Palinuro. In fact, the resort is protected by the immense arch of craggy rock that extends out to sea, sheltering the bay the provides a shelter and a natural harbour for seafarers. This is how it must have appeared years ago to the Argonauts, the Phoenicians &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"class_list":["post-3705","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marbellaclub.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marbellaclub.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marbellaclub.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marbellaclub.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marbellaclub.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marbellaclub.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marbellaclub.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}