Atrani was the residence of amalfi noble people. Very near to the big town it nearly represented the favourite one so much that in Atrani, in San Salvatore de Birecto Church, amalfi doge received political investiture and together with important people stream he entered into amalfi residence. This relationship with Amalfi was enduring and the centre shared with it fame and decline for the whole history.

Also Atrani territory preserves traces of eremitic monks’presence and in fact a small grotto with frescos, situated on the border line with Amalfi, the tradition says that an hermit monk, Saint Saba di Collesano, sheltered there. In the post war period for a quite long period it was unificated to Amalfi but then it gained council autonomy.