Processions
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 one.
The Amalfi Coast in this sense it offers a very rich heritage of elements it makes concern the own attention: from the processions of the Saint protector of the town that assumes the character of a real tribute of devotion to him who protects the people from dangers and sometimes it has particular characteristics like the statue movement according to a predetermined scheme so the simulacrum bringers move at a dance pace, to those of Dead Christ of Sain Friday, which are accompanied by the sing of the “battenti” that is, of the epigones of the members of the brotherhoods of flagellants, or to those that opens Christmas period and they are linked to some saint figures that are worshipped a lot in the Coast, like S. Lucia o S. Barbara, whose precessions are accompanied have a particular moment in the pass close to the sea or even to the arrival at the seashore, like that it asks to the Saint or to the Virgin the protection during the fishing activity.
The gate path in Vietri sul Mare shows to the tourist a world where you can know all these aspects twisted together.
To witness or participate in the processions you need to go to the different communes of the Coast when these are taking place.
Chiesa San Michele Arcangelo
MUNICIPALITY: Conca dei Marini NAME: Chiesa San Michele Arcangelo / Church of St. Michael the Archangel LOCATION: Penne DESCRIPTION: Already
Chiesa San Michele Arcangelo
MUNICIPALITY: Furore NAME: Church of St. Michael the Archangel LOCATION: Largo S. Michele DESCRIPTION: This church was also identified in
Chiesa San Erasmo
MUNICIPALITY: Tramonti NAME: Church of St. Erasmus LOCATION: Pucara DESCRIPTION: This church was built in 1412 on the remains of
Duomo (ex Cattedrale) di S. Maria Assunta
MUNICIPALITY: Ravello NAME: Duomo (formerly the Cathedral) of St. Mary of the Assumption LOCATION: Piazza Vescovado DESCRIPTION: The Duomo, dedicated
Chiesa San Pietro
MUNICIPALITY: Ravello NAME: Church of St. Pietro alla Costa. LOCATION: Via Loggetta. DESCRIPTION::Dating back to the 10th century and preceded
Monastero di San Lorenzo al Piano
MUNICIPALITY: Amalfi NAME: Monastery of S. Lorenzo al Piano LOCATION: Via Muro Rotto DESCRIPTION: The ancient female monastery of the