In the province of Salerno, its situated on the southern coast of the Sorrento peninsula, the magnificent Amalfi coastline. Amalfi, according to tradition, founded by the Romans (IV century A.D.) Episcopal seat from the VI century, it affirmed itself as a maritime power in the X and XI centuries establishing trading centres in the main parts of the Mediterranean and many colonies in Naples, Sicily, Puglia, Tripoli and Constantinople. Passed to Norman rule in 1073, in 1135 it was sacked by its rival Pisa, reborn under the Suevians, the city always suffered the commercial competition of the other maritime republics ( Pisa, Venetia, Genoa). In the centuries that followed it become the estate of various noble families, its maritime laws transcribed in the celebrated Tavola Amalfitana, conserved in the civic museum, were used in the Mediterranean until the XVI century, during which the city declined definitively.

The modern centre, which rises in part on hill with its characteristic white houses built on terraces, its main monument is the Cathedral (X century) the façade was rebuilt in 1861, a bronze portal was cast for it in Constantinople (II century), a notable bell tower(1180-1276) and the cloister of Paradise (XIII century), with narrow entwined arches. Walking through the suggestive village we enter the Valle dei Mulini, with two antiques paper mills still working and a small museum of paper, the local economy is based mainly on tourism, thanks to the beauty of the surrounding landscape and its mild climate that makes Amalfi one of the most famous places stay in Campania, visited the year round.