UNESCO AmalfiCoast The Amalfi Coast has a rich heritage of myths and legends that represent the link between material and immaterial heritage. A rock with a particular shape, a hole in the mountain, a name or a dish have seen the intervention of the supernatural or the heroic. And where...
Vietri sul Mare – Myths and Legends
UNESCO AmalfiCoast The most famous legend of Vietri sul Mare is the one linked to the two rocks which emerge from the sea at a short distance on the side which borders with Salerno. There are various versions. It is said, for example, that those two little stacks are linked...
Tramonti – Myths and Legends
UNESCO AmalfiCoast The Amalfi Coast has a rich heritage of myths and legends that represent the link between material and immaterial heritage. A rock with a particular shape, a hole in the mountain, a name or a dish have seen the intervention of the supernatural or the heroic. And where...
Scala – Myths and legends
UNESCO AmalfiCoast Scala legends are linked to mountain world and remind us that it can hide elements which ensure richness. The bell, preserved on Campanaro mountain, contended by Scalesi and Agerolesi, was won by people from Scala thanks to a dodge, or the golden child who represents richness and it...
S. Egidio del Monte Albino – Myths and legends
UNESCO AmalfiCoast The Amalfi Coast has a rich heritage of myths and legends that represent the link between material and immaterial heritage. A rock with a particular shape, a hole in the mountain, a name or a dish have seen the intervention of the supernatural or the heroic. And where...
Ravello – Myths and legends
UNESCO AmalfiCoast The legend linked to Ravello concerns the arrival of the precious relic represented by Saint protector’s blood, S. Pantaleone, which every year as a sign of never-ending devotion liquefies on occasion of the recurrence of the Saint’s martyrdom (27th July). According to the tradition this relic arrived here...
Praiano – Myths and legends
UNESCO AmalfiCoast In Praiano a legend is linked to the procession of Saint Luca, protector of the village. It is said that in the past, when the statue of the Saint arrived near a street called “moressa”, the sacred simulacrum became so heavy that people who brought it were not...
Positano – Myths and legends
UNESCO AmalfiCoast The most famous legend of Positano is without doubt the one linked to the particular shape of the mountain which overlooks Montepertuso, it is characterized by a big hole. It is said that once devil challenged the Blessed Virgin Mary for the ownership of the hamlet saying that...
Minori – Myths and legends
UNESCO AmalfiCoast The most known tradition by Minoresi is the one linked to the retrieval of their saint patron body, S. Trofimena. This martyr Saint, who had her origin in Sicily, and precisely in Patti, after being killed was fund back on Minori litoral in a chest, brought here by...
Maiori – Myths and legends
UNESCO AmalfiCoast The Amalfi Coast has a rich heritage of myths and legends that represent the link between material and immaterial heritage. A rock with a particular shape, a hole in the mountain, a name or a dish have seen the intervention of the supernatural or the heroic. And where...