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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
same time , a triumph of airiness "La Vela" of Luigi
Mazzella , and in front of it "Prometeo - the torment of power
" by Di Meglio.
A little further
ahead the ample collection of "Muri d'Autore" (Painted
Walls) , along the road and on the candid walls of the houses , a
cross between divine inspiration and human talent , a full art gallery
in the open air that includes work by : the brothers Mazzella , Dino
Buzzati, Carlo Levi, Giulio Carlo Argan and Marcello Venturoni, the
German Fritz Gilow and the Polish Wontrowa, Nadia Farina , Anna Crosio
, Pippo Borrello and many others, destined from time to time to be
made even more rich with new additions.
A bizarre town Furore , a town of contrasts : savage but sensible to
art , even the urban furnishing are coloured: red railings , azure
street lamps , yellow gates and blood red "piennoli" ( small
tomatoes) that decorate the candid balconies ,even prettier than
expensive flowers...
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
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 ...
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
....
An enchanted
panorama, the peace is unreal and encompasses the sea and sun , a
little further ahead appears the small Church of S.Elia of the
two-hundreds , that hold the priceless "Trittico" of
1482 , opera of Antonello da Capua , maybe the painting of major
importance on the entire Amalfi Coast, The story handed down to us
tells of an antique and precious icon
of S.Elia that in the sixteen hundreds during a Saracen attack, caused
the infidel to be wrecked on the rocks. Today near the fiord you can
still discover red rocks said to be stained by the blood spurting from
the statue , and on the anniversary of the event it is said to flow
again....
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...
LIST
OF MONUMENTS AND SITES OF SCENIC AND CULTURAL INTEREST
I MURI
D'AUTORE
CHURCH OF S. GIACOMO
CHURCH OF S. MICHELE ARCANGELO
CHURCH OF S. ELIA
GROTTO OF S. BARBARA
FIORDO - Villaggio dei Pescatori
LE PASSEGGIATE
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