RAVELLO

General information
Province: Salerno

“Closer to the sky than is not distant from the shore, the city rises on a mountain”, with these words a known character of the culture described Ravello one of the most beloved towns of the Amalfitan coast. This enchanting village from the radiant nature, is situated in a suggestive position that divides the valley of the stream Dragon from that of the stream Reginna. 
The inhabited area still preserve its Medieval aspect.
The twisted streets, the villas, the churches from the treasures in mosaic, still testifies Arab and oriental  influence on the southern Romanesque art.

Historical outlines
Risen in the VI century b.C., around the year thousand were populated by a group of noble of the Republic of Amalfi, rebelled to the authority of the doge.  
The city quickly became prosperous, particularly thanks to a flourishing wool filatoria  anciently  said “Celendra” that in 1292 the king Carlo II  granted  to the bishop Giovanni Allegri, to the provident agriculture and the intense commercial exchanges entertained on the routs of the Mediterranean, above all with the Arabic and Byzantine people. Already elevated to Episcopalian center in 1086, during the following century authentic power was confirmed. In the 1137 Bernard from Chiaravalle defined the city “ancient, very well fournished and impregnable, over opulent, so much beautiful that he can easily enumerate among the first and noble cities….”  
The history of Ravello developed in connection with Amalfi. The economic and political decline had beginning in Norman period and became dramatic during Six hundred. Lost the economic prosperity, Ravello had the rest only ..., or rather all of that is more appreciable today: a naturalistically incomparable site and the architectural and artistic wonder realized in the centuries of the shine.  

To visit:
Il Duomo,Villa Rufolo, Villa Cimbrone, Palazzo Gonfalone, Palazzo Tolla, Palazzo d’Afflitto, Chiesa di Santa Chiara, Chiesa di S.Francesco.

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