Processions
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Linked to the festival time, this path allows the tourist to the deep knowledge of the area. The procession in honor of a Saint or Madonna, even on important occasions of the year, it has a value that involves not only the religious feeling but also the anthropological one.
The Amalfi Coast in this sense it offers a very rich heritage of elements it makes concern the own attention: from the processions of the Saint protector of the town that assumes the character of a real tribute of devotion to him who protects the people from dangers and sometimes it has particular characteristics like the statue movement according to a predetermined scheme so the simulacrum bringers move at a dance pace, to those of Dead Christ of Sain Friday, which are accompanied by the sing of the “battenti” that is, of the epigones of the members of the brotherhoods of flagellants, or to those that opens Christmas period and they are linked to some saint figures that are worshipped a lot in the Coast, like S. Lucia o S. Barbara, whose precessions are accompanied have a particular moment in the pass close to the sea or even to the arrival at the seashore, like that it asks to the Saint or to the Virgin the protection during the fishing activity.
The gate path in Vietri sul Mare shows to the tourist a world where you can know all these aspects twisted together.
To witness or participate in the processions you need to go to the different communes of the Coast when these are taking place.
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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
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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