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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
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Furore is still creating tourism for those capable of appreciating the silence and peace , the warmth of the sun on one's skin , the good wine ... Furore is the place to stay: this corner of Paradise on high over the sea...
Not really a town, Furore is made up of groups of houses spread along the State road 366 "Agerolina " ... A sort of centre if we could call it so is La Mola , sunny , modern and Mediterranean at the
The town is very masculine , in the lined faces of old farmers and the virile city shield ...Maybe a nostalgic memory of the legendary sect founded by Meco del Sacco , who on the high ground of Furore preached free love... Further ahead at the fork of the road , the outside lane leads to Li Summonti and continuing to the end, the locality Le Vigne, where there is a magnificent view of Praiano , over an immense sea and the rocks of Ischietella...
Back on the State road we find the
Church of S.Michele Arcangelo or Sant' Agnelo with
Along a narrow path, then via Centena (10km. Along the SS366 ), it leads to " the path of the crow's nest ", between florid vineyards and nut trees , we find the Grotto of S.Barbara, an ancient rural construction of the X century that has faint traces of Frescoes and on the wall of the apsis a "Madonna tra due monaci " of the XVIII century ... Designing terrible curves ,the road is now at its full height , the panorama takes one's breath away. The magnificent cascade of terraces that dive down to the immense cobalt sea ... This is the secret of the wine of Furore : the sea breezes and the earth burned by the sun: white, fresh , with a delicate bouquet , and red ,dry and full..."capable of filling one with sun and happiness" .... (L.Veronelli) Returning to La Mola , take the straight road and instead of going on to Amalfi take the outside lane that leads to the hamlet of Sant'Elia ....
A fiord of legend therefore and of incomparable beauty , reached by the pathway of the " fishing Fox" . A deep wound in the rocks , a world of its own , where the sea arrives to lap the rigorous vegetation , rich in native species and the "Woodwaria Radicans or Felce Bulbifera Gigante" , a fern of the "Tertiary " era , today under the protection of the Convention of Berne .... If we are lucky we might even admire the Pilgrim Falcon wheeling in the air over our heads, now very rare...
Then the ancient buildings of paper factories and mills, the magnificent
fishermen's village, the little rural church and the
"La Storta" , the modest house made into a villa by Roberto Rossellini and Anna Magnani , during the happier days of their love story...
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OF MONUMENTS AND SITES OF SCENIC AND CULTURAL INTEREST
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same time , a triumph of airiness
"La Vela" of Luigi Mazzella , and in front of it "Prometeo - the torment of power
" by Di Meglio.
three naves and a cupola bell-tower... A little further ahead the XIII century
Church of San Giacomo with a beautiful bell-tower, the pinnacle covered with fragments of coloured majolica ... 
