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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...

 

Cossa, the Tyrrhene.

Proud and warlike , in the Punic wars even the Romans wanted her as an ally. Then came peace. The galleys became trading vessels and made the town even more rich and opulent than Amalfi. The maximum splendour arrived with the Swabians and Angevins, the Saracens pillaged the town in 1543 causing the inevitable decline... Then the same story as for the rest of the Amalfi Coast