Vietri sul Mare witnesses a history which sinks its roots in classic antiquity. In the past it has been very discussed if in Vietri it had to be identified the etrurian centre of Marcina which represented the divide between Etrurian in the North and Greek of Magna Grecia in the South.

Burial findings and the presence of a complex of thermal baths witness that here there has been more than a simple attendance and perhaps also the toponym might send back to an antiquity more or less known already in medieval period (Vietri < Vetus = old, ancient).

Far away from Amalfi, it gravitated around Salerno and it represented a bit the appendix where it was produced what was required by the big Lombard town.

It rotated around the big Benedictine SS. Trinità di Cava dei Tirreni abbey and it was the only municipality of Costiera Amalfitana to be provided with a railway station which made it the ideal entrance door for the Coast already at the end of XIX century.