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A testament to a glorious past, the meeting of races and culture, along the entire coast: old castle walls, villas, churches and sanctuaries...we appeal not to the expert but to the curious who delight in cultural discoveries, who want to know more about the places they visit... |
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Cetara has beauties both natural and monumental. Pretty and relaxing walks from Contrada Casale that climbs the ridge of monte Falerzio, towards the Contrada Grotto , or the
fresh spring
Romanesque except for the octagonal bell-tower, but entirely rebuilt in the XVIII century, inside: the tomb of the heroic Cetarese
Grandonetto Aulisio( who in 1485 , with a head long flight escaped the also in an alley- way marked only by a ceramic plaque the birth place of the Beata Suor Orsola Benincasa, founder of the order of the Suore Teatine dell'Immacolata Concezione; we find the divine , in a fresco in the church of S.Francesco ( 1585) in the act of sending a tidal wave against the Saracen fleet who are attacking Cetara . Inside the Temple (in the cupola ) frescoes of other scenes of the miracle by minor artists and in the zone of the apsis , a discreet " Deposizione" by Benincasa dated 1546... Guarding the town , the majestic Vicereale Tower , erected to oppose the pirates , by Don Parafan De Ribeira at the end of the XVI century.
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