UNESCO AmalfiCoast The interpretation proposed by the itinerary allows the visitor to come into contact with many testimonies of the artistic and architectural taste of the ancient inhabitants of the Amalfi Coast, as it was realized in the sacred buildings. The many churches in the area, so widespread as to...
Military Archaeology
UNESCO AmalfiCoast To defend the territory, the inhabitants of the Amalfi Coast relied on two types of buildings: the towers on the coast and the castles on the mountains, arranged like a crown for sightings of arrivals from the hinterland. The still existing towers, visible sentinels even at a long...
patron festival
UNESCO AmalfiCoast There is no period of the year in which in Coat there is no festival dedicated to the town Saint patron or even of a frazione. The path shows to the tourist the possibility to live the Amalfi Coast through this main theme that talks about tradition of...
The places of the Saint
UNESCO AmalfiCoast This path allows the tourist to know the important figures of the Saints that either worked in Amalfi Coast or they are worshipped a lot here. Three of them are interesting communes, Cetara, Ravello, Scala. The Sister Orsola Benincasa figure, native of Cetara is venerated in the small...
Processions
UNESCO AmalfiCoast Linked to the festival time, this path allows the tourist to the deep knowledge of the area. The procession in honor of a Saint or Madonna, even on important occasions of the year, it has a value that involves not only the religious feeling but also the anthropological...
Scala – Atrani
UNESCO AmalfiCoast The route takes the visitor through a comfortable walk to rediscover several points of interest of the Amalfi Coast area. Starting from Scala, in fact, it is possible to admire architecture masterpieces built in the period of great prosperity of the Duchy of Amalfi, from the crypt of...
Scala – Pontone – Amalfi
UNESCO AmalfiCoast The route crosses highly significant areas from an architectural and naturalistic point of view. Starting from Scala, in fact, it is possible to admire architecture masterpieces built in the period of great prosperity of the Duchy of Amalfi, from the crypt of the Scala Cathedral, where the Gothic...
The hill and the peasant world
UNESCO AmalfiCoast The route offers the possibility of approaching one of the most characteristic elements of the cultural landscape of the Amalfi Coast, the terracing which represents the dominant graphics of the slopes of the southern Lattari Mountains. The terracing is not an element in itself but is part of...
The mountain and the wood
UNESCO AmalfiCoast This interpretation of the Amalfi Coast is the one preferred by foreigners, who have been the first since the time of the Grand Tour to rediscover the charm of its mountains and its woods. Travelers on the Grand Tour used to cross the mountains because those were the...
The terraced gardens
UNESCO AmalfiCoast Costiera Amalfitana shows a landscape which is the result of the change occurred during last centuries to adapt difficult topographic conditions to survival necessities. The most spread instrument for this change has been the terraced garden of slopes. Coinciding with the period of greatest fortune of Amalfi Dukedom,...