Description
Discover with us the beauties of the Amalfi coast. Its hidden treasures will give you a unique and unforgettable experience!
Come with us to discover the main attractions on the Amalfi coast. Thanks to these topics we will get to know together all the sites of greatest interest in the area, even those that no one talks about.
Our journey will start from the very famous Positano and from the less known Minori which with their Roman villas will take us back in time to the 1st century AD.
Then we move to Amalfi, the most important town of Amalfi Coast, which with its history and its cathedral will bring us back to the period of the Saracen invasions and the great maritime republics (IX-XI century) .
We will also reach Maiori, a small town that hides a priceless treasure: Santa Maria de Olearia, which will make us relive the period of the first monastic settlements called in rupe (X century).
Finally we will arrive in Ravello, the city of music, which with its two most important villas, Cimbrone and Rufolo, will provide us with a general picture of how life was during the thirteenth century. Furthermore, starting from the years of the Grand Tour, the city was frequented by great artists and for this reason it was known all over the world.
- this course will be live on Zoom with our expert
- duration: 4x1h
Expert
Rossella Proto is an archaeologist graduated from the University of Suor Orsola Benincasa, located in Naples. Native of the Amalfi coast, she still lives today in Maiori. She is also a licenced authorized tourist guide specialized on Campania sites.
Thanks to her experiences as an archaeologist, she has acquired great awareness of the importance of the ancient evidences present in the various territories and how much they can help to understand its history.
The work of a tourist guide, instead, was fundamental for her to be able to understand how important and pleasant it is to transmit one’s knowledge to those who are truly interested.
The luck of being born and living in a territory such as the Amalfi Coast made her acquire the awareness of how much beauty a similar territory can give and it is for this reason that she decided to implement an operation to safeguard and enhance the coastal territory and, more precisely, of those lesser-known archaeological sites which are instead very important for reconstructing history.
Finally, in the last year she started her school career as an Italian teacher in a high school and this experience meant that she could perfect her method of transmitting her knowledge.
Suggested Reading
P. Rubino, I tesori della Costiera amalfitana – English version, White Star, Milano 2005.
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