A characteristic seaside village on the slopes of Mount Bulgheria and a renowned tourist centre with one of the best equipped ports in the area, Scario has a number of suggestive attractions, including its beautiful seafront promenade and amazing Masseta coastline where the rocks of Mount Bulgheria plunge into the sea, forming one of the Mediterranean’s most beautiful underwater paradises, rich in marine species that have long since disappeared elsewhere.
Along the coast, over hundreds of thousands of years, intense karstic phenomena have excavated mysterious caves, inhabited as far back as the Palaeolithic age: the most important ones include Grotta Grande and Riparo del Molare, where important prehistoric deposits have been found.
Founded by the Greeks, Scario followed the same fate of the neighbouring lands, suffering the influence of different dominations. The settlement took on its present form towards the end of the 18th century, thanks to the noble families of San Giovanni a Piro and, above all, Counts Carafa, who built a summer residence known by the Scariots as la ‘casa contesca’.
In addition to the striking natural beauty of the coastline, Scario is home to the Church of Sant’Anna and the Church of the Immacolata, which since 1846 has housed a statuette of the Madonna, donated by the captain of a vessel which survived a shipwreck. The two coastal towers visible on opposite sides of the town date back to the 17th century: the Garagliano Tower, which construction had already begun in 1566, and the Olive Tower.