According to the tradition Maiori was an Etrurian centre, so that local buildings have always witnessed of findings of burials which would send back to typical Etrurian cinerary jails, but since these would not keep to historical reality, they collocate the Etrurian seat in a castle which is manifestly of medieval period. A part from the tradition, Maiori was an important natural linking point between the pass, which allowed the transit towards Vesuviana valley, and Costiera.

Surely before the institution of the Dukedom the area  was lived,  as other areas located at the mouth of torrents, thanks to the fertile soil that here was surely in abundance because of the topography of the ground. Once part of Amalfi Dukedom, Maiori shared its fortunes and its misfortunes: it had to play an important role in defense since along its coast there were two towers which probably had to be linked through a defense wall facing on the sea (of this wall it is possible to see some remains), while the upper area was checked by Thoro Plano Castel. In 1900 two inundations put to a hard test the village that on both occasions had numerous human being losses.