In the sign of the most natural tradition of the Italian hospitality you could choose as a base for your holiday Hotel La Vela, Consalvo's family, that will welcome you to make you enjoy the pleasure of a serene holiday, in the comfort of a place on the seashore, "Bandiera Blu" of Europe, surrounds of hills where Mediterranean vegetation dominates outright enriched with ancient olives. The hotel, composed of rooms (all with privates sevice and showers, TV-Sat, air contitionated, heating plant, telephone, phon and private strongbox, parking, tennis (field reconstruction), and private beach) is in Pioppi - common of Pollica in province of Salernoin the national park of Cilento and Vallo di Diano, "patrimonio" (heritage) of UNESCO.

Not so far from here there are Paestum and Velia easily reached with pleasure excursions and hilly places of the park. Other possible places to visit for daily excursions are: Certosa of Padula (XIV century); the caves of Pertosa, Pompei, Vesuvio, Costiera Amalfinata and Capri.

Here the temperature is mild in every month of the year and permits the use of all seasons with its fruits, tastes and colours. In this place was born the Mediterranean Diet that just in Pioppi has been studied for the frist time; and to it is ispirated the alimentary tradition of Vela hotel: wheat bread cooked in wood oven of the hotel, fresh pasta worked in base, caught fish in the opposite sea, fruits vegetables, eggs and meat came from the nearly hilly villages or from the farmes in the nearly plane; further a mediterranean sun touch is cosituited of olives oil, always available for tastes but is also possible to buy: its unmistakeble taste is given by the cold pressing done into the family's oil mill.

You'll enjoy all this and other tastes of the Mediterranean food under the rigourous and vast pergola on the seashore or in the comfortable internal room.

Hotel La Vela is waiting you to do you enjoy an absolutely original holiday in contact with the nature, with culture and tastes of our land.

In the evening, you can dine at the restaurant adjacent to the hotel, the "Grigliaro" where display of fish and vegetables, cooked according to traditional local recipes, and displayed on a fishing boat.

Staying in one of hotel's fifty en-suite bedrooms, all of which are attractively decorated, guarantees you the oppurtunity to savour the delights of a natural lifestyle along with the authentic tastes of wholesome cooking.

All our pasta is home-made and every morning you can enjoy freshly-cooked wheat bread from our wood-burning oven.

The fish we serve is caught by the fishing boats that you can see and which belong to the owner and our meat, chicken, eggs, fruit and vegetables come from the surroundig hillside villages or from the farms on the nearby plain.