Furore

Following the hairpin curves of the road cut along the coast between Amalfi and Positano, you will arrive in Furore: "the town that is not". This charming town is composed by two parts: one on the sea, the other on the mountain.

A loose group of houses sprinkled across the rocky cliffs, built sheer to the sea in order to protect the fields and the countryside, this is Furore.. The hamlet of Fiordo is situated at the foot of the cliff, down by the sea, along the SS 163 (national road) between Amalfi and Positano. A mountain pass built during the Republic of Amalfi is been the only connection between sea and mountain. Here you will walk through tiny alleys and narrow plots of a land miraculously torn away from the mountain and cultivated with lots of love.

The city has been renowned from time immemorial as small coastal territory, lacking in cultivable lands and scarcely populated. This might be the reason why someone thinks that the first inhabitants, (which became able fishermen, artisans and farmers), originally were Amalfi's refugees, forced to live in this inhospitable place, because exiled from their home town.

Anyway, thanks to the particular geographical conformation, Furore has always been a very important and susceptible stronghold, even at the time of Saracens' incursions.

Some illustrious noble Neapolitan families left deep signs into the village, giving a name to places and streets, like: Li Summonti, Le Porpore, Li Cuomi, Li Candidi. The family of Summonti moved to Naples in 1400, but gave to the village of Furore a great imprint of upright men: they made a conspicuous donation of ducats, to allow a lucky "poor but honest and deserving spinster in Furore" to get married with dignity! ;-)

The town takes its name from the fury of the sea during stormy nights, when the waves crash onto the craggy rocks, creating a frightening roar. Gradually the locals began to dedicate themselves to fishing, hand-made products and milk pasteurising.

Olive trees, grapevines on terraces going up the mountainside, bowers of bright yellow lemons, red roofs and colourful majolicas of the notable bell-tower, scented flowers, wild blackberries, and deeply blue transparent sea: you will remember all this for the rest of your life!

Fiordo has always been a natural port that allowed flourishing commercial traffics. The oldest industries (paper factories, watermills) developed in Fiordo, nearby the river Schiantro, flowing down from Lattari Mountains.

The Fiord of Furore is a unique, natural shelter bursting with natural beauty. Inside it, the opposing faces of the great valley unveils many interesting walks:

• "La Volpe Pescatrice Path" (The Fishing Vixen)

The ancient fishermen's village, with its two characteristic stairways, acts as the starting point for this trail which, immersed in dense Mediterranean colours, arrives at the grounds of the Furore Inn Resort and takes its name from the Resort's exclusive restaurant. Caves and caverns appear among the calcareous valley walls in which peregrine falcons nest.

• "I Pipistrelli Impazziti" Path (The Crazed Bats)

On the eastern side of the valley, hidden by the limekiln, begins a well marked botanical trail leading to Punta Tavola (Table Point), close by Conca De Marini. The trail, which winds between holm-oaks and carob trees, passes the mills and the canals to arrive at the solitary, silent paper factory, the undeniable kingdom of the bats. Visit the church of St Elia, built in the XIII century, where you can see a triptych of Angelo Antonello da Capua.

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