Surely Tramonti territory has been one of the first to be lived.

Life tracks date back to prehistory (some grottos is plain that were lived) but for sure a crucial moment is the end of III century B.C., when at the same time of Nuceria destruction carried on by Annibale (216 B.C) the town inhabitants escaped on nearby mountains. To this period dates a witness which reminds of temporary lived structures in Polvica area.

In the same area during the roman period a rural villa was built and it was destroyed by alluvial consequences linked to Vesuvio eruption in 79 A.C. and it was intended for agricultural exploitation of the area (a vineyard mould made in occasion of the excavation witnesses the purpose of the settlement).

The village structure, deprived of an out-and-out centre and made of a group of scattered farmhouses, a lot of them with rural toponyms (Trugnano, Capitignano, Cesarano etc.) sends back to this agricultural activity. During Middle Age it was outpost of the coast defence thanks to the numerous sighting points both on Costiera Amalfitana and on Vesuvio plain.

At the end of 1400 it obtained numerous privileges by Ferdinando I d’Aragona who found shelter here after Sarno defeat.