Name , shape , image
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Costiera Amalfitana thanks to its numerous contacts with all Countries of Mediterranean area inherited influences materialized both through names of places and through the shape of urban centres.
Toponymy and urban models, in fact, spread to visitors the image of a territory that has achieved its concrete shape following two basic aspects: orography and history.
Names of places, between history and legend, send back to a world that is the one of the origins (toponyms concerning Tramonti rustic places date back to the territory occupation during roman epoch), of faith (there are numerous places identified with Saints’names to whom a chapel, a church or a simple edicola are dedicated), of agricultural vocation of the area and of the myth of setting. Each name has its own history worthy to discover.
Urban shape, instead, is linked to contacts and to orography; departing from hill side areas as far as downriver areas these places convey to a careful visitor a particular shape: small intersected streets which seem to bring nowhere, houses placed one on the other as a maze which distracted and stopped enemies from committing raids, the spread dislocation of rural homes in areas dedicated to agriculture.
The itinerary, departing from Atrani, crossing all municipalities of the site, allows to approach to this particular and not very published on coast guidebooks aspect.
To be able to read the landscape according to this interpretive model, it is necessary to observe it from the sea by making use of the sea connections, which, however, are in operation only in the spring and summer period. In the absence of these connections, one must visit the sites by traversing the alleys and climbing the highest points, which offer the best views, using the stepped streets.
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Museo del Duomo
MUNICIPALITY: Ravello NAME: Cathedral Museum LOCATION: Piazza Vescovado DESCRIPTION: The museum, housed since July 3, 1983, in the Crypt of
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Basilica Santa Trofimena
MUNICIPALITY: Minori NAME: Basilica of St. Trofimena LOCALITY: Piazza Cantilena DESCRIPTION: The structure that stands in the center of the
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Convento San Nicola
MUNICIPALITY: Minori NAME: Convent of St. Nicholas LOCATION: Monte Forcella DESCRIPTION: The S. Nicola complex on Monte Forcella consists of
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Chiesa San Giovanni del Toro
MUNICIPALITY: Ravello NAME: Church of S. Giovanni del Toro LOCATION: Piazza S. Giovanni del Toro DESCRIPTION: The church of S.
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Chiesa San Giovanni Battista
MUNICIPALITY: Scala NAME: Church of St. John the Baptist LOCATION: Loc. Pontone DESCRIPTION: The church, originally with three naves, currently
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Chiesa di San Filippo Neri
MUNICIPALITY: Scala NAME: Church of St. Filippo Neri LOCATION: Loc. Pontone DESCRIPTION: The structure, preceded by a cross-vaulted atrium, has