Lucania and Cilento are two famous lands, for their peasant and brigandish origins, linked between them by an excavated path in the rocky shore, where if two peasants met, with their donkeys, one of the two had to appreciate the donkey of the other; the one that has worth less was eliminated for making easy the other.


In times past the Lucan brigands (in times gone by, Cilento was a Lucan land), achieved some raids in our lands, later on, they came together again in the taverns and public houses, where they shared out the loot and they fed of the ancient and Lucan dishes.

Well, Cantina R'u Ranco (that is, Lame's Inn, as the host was lame) was one of those places. The Pleasures and the Traditions of the Culture and the Cookery, which belong tipically to the Cilento People, remain still.
In front of a technological and pursuing present, in continous evolution, we were bound to a past, which re-proposes typical dishes of the older Cilento Tradition. There is a good cooking based on the vegetables, local legumen, such as chicory and potatoes, endives and beans, lagane and chick-peas, mixed noodles, cavatelli with crackled brocoli, fazzolettini cilentani, etc.

The whole Cilento cooking is based on the produce of the land and on the local fish, such as anchovy, polyp, cuttle-fish, calamary, sardine, shrimp, cray fish, saraghi, red mullet, cernie, sea-food tied to the rocks, which, during sea-storm coming out from their (gorge) shell and many other products of the reach sea the washes the coast. The whole is accompanied by a typical wine of Cilento and Basilicata, there are refined and delicate wine, according to served dish.


The Cantina R'u Ranco is situated in historical centre of Sapri, beside the Church Tower; the sphere is agreeable and in the merry evening can listen to popular Lucan and Cilento songs, proposed by Gaetano Bellini with powerful voice, and harmonious accordion played by Salvatore Cosentino and Carmelo Bruzzese.


Cantina R'u Ranco is pointed out by autorithative gastronomic publications: I Ristoranti di Veronelli, Bella Italia, Osterie d'Italia, Touring Club Italia for the fresh dough.