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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Chiesa San Martino
MUNICIPALITY: Ravello NAME: Church of St. Martin LOCATION: Via S. Martino DESCRIPTION:Now a chapel of the town cemetery, certainly pre-dating
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Chiesa San Michele Arcangelo – Torello
MUNICIPALITY: Ravello NAME: Church of St. Michael the Archangelo LOCATION: Torello DESCRIPTION: Already existing in 1297, the structure features an
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Santuario Santi Cosma e Damiano
MUNICIPALITY: Ravello NAME: Sanctuary of Saints Cosma and Damiano LOCATION: Piazza S. Cosma DESCRIPTION: The church that can be seen
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Chiesa Santa Maria a Gradillo
MUNICIPALITY: Ravello NAME: Church of St. Mary in Gradillo LOCATION: Piazzetta di Gradillo DESCRIPTION: This church’s construction date appears uncertain
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Chiesa dell’Annunziata
MUNICIPALITY: Minori NAME: Church of the Annunziata. LOCATION: Loc. Petrito DESCRIPTION: Of the church, dating back to the 11th century,
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Chiesa ed Oratorio dell’Annunziata
MUNICIPALITY: Ravello NAME: Church and Oratory of the Annunziata LOCATION: Via Dell’Annunziata DESCRIPTION: The church and oratory of this complex