Grand events on the coast of Amalfi, crossroads between East and West, a memory of power and glory, of blood and chains, of cultures that admired, encountered and finally united; on the facades of the Churches, in the features of her people.... Now for you, the places and dates, the battles and ceremonies...

...Girastorie...

          The ancient Plagianum of the Romans , seat of the warehouses and tax offices, made rich in the Republican epoch and noble under the Anjovins : favoured by Carlo I , who came here to rest and take the salubrious air..

The air must have been exceptional as he elevated the town to the rank of Universitas , and beautified it with churches and monasteries, and built the tower Sciola, to defend it from the Aragonese of Sicily...

          The glorious times passed and even Praiano lapsed into a dark age , abandoned at the mercy of rulers that came and went, surviving thanks to agriculture and the craftsmen ( work in coral that once abounded in these waters , silk and silk-thread ( filo Amalfitano) for the embroidery on linen favoured in Anjovin times and now reproduced by expert hands for the bottom- drawers of brides, or to decorate enchanted villas, and last but not least the fishing....

          Particularly the excellent totani 
( squid) bold and abundant, in competition with the people of Cetara for the primacy . In the past often arriving at blows .... The rebirth was in the air and exploded in the 1960s: artists, writers, directors, repopulated the pretty slopes and a dream opened up for every one....