Corbara – Culture

Corbara – Culture

Corbara, thanks to its thousand-year history, offers to visitors, that too often cross it too fast to drive up to Chiunzi pass to reach Costiera Amalfitana, wide material and immaterial cultural heritage. It is possible to start from S. Bartolomeo Church, patron Saint of the town, to pass to those of S. Giuseppe or S. Erasmo, where it is possible to admire two paintings by Luca Giordano, exponent of Neapolitan painting of ‘600. To live local traditions visitors cannot miss an event organized in summer months: the descend of the angel. A man dressed as an angel descends from S. Erasmo Church along a route which gets down to the valley, and he stops 13 times while traditional folk songs, dedicated to S. Erasmo, are sung. This ceremony includes the sacred and the profane, linking the ability of woodcutters to descend cut wood thanks to rope ways to the valley with the tradition of the angel who had freed S. Bartolomeo from martyrdom.