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Tramonti

Thirteen hamlets scattered amidst vineyards, chestnut woods and scented lemon groves, set in a bucolic landscape, 8 km from the sea: this is Tramonti. The toponym comes from the morphological configuration – intra montes: in Italian, among the mountains.

A fascinating place founded by the Romans, like the close Scala and Amalfi itself. According to the historians, the natives built the village of Cesarano between the IV and the V century BC on the western side of Tramonti. Cesarano has been the main bulwark of Tramonti for a long time: the village had indeed to war against the princes Durazzeschi and Aragonese from Naples. The population gradually increased and spread along the area that later on was divided into different small villages. Even the coat of arms is allusive: three mountains surmounted by a crescent moon.

Tramonti, as many other villages of the coast, cannot be considered separately from Amalfi: the latter reached the maximum greatness through a long labour of fights, attempts and victories, in which the various villages nearby had an important rule.

Tramonti was involved to defend Amalfi from the incursions of the Lombard Arechi II and the ambitious Sicard of Benevento, until Amalfi freed itself from the grasp of the Duke of Naples (1 December 839) and reached a unique splendour becoming a powerful maritime republic for three centuries. Tramonti took advantage of the intense commercial traffics in Amalfi, so that the commerce and local artistic production had a notable growth. We could not explain otherwise the big number of churches, ancient monuments, the presence of dozens of noble families and illustrious men.

With the fall of the Maritime Republic of Amalfi, caused by the Normans - who dominated the coast for a while – Amalfi and the villages around faced hard times and, as a consequence, Tramonti decreased its importance and greatness.

The castle St Maria la Nova, was built along with the castle Chiunzi in 1453 for want of Raimondo Orsini, prince of Salerno and Duke of Amalfi. The hamlets of Tramonti are:

Pucara, where to admire marvellous paintings by Luca Giordano, into the parish church of St Maria Maddalena and the Conservatory of St Giuseppe, founded in 1676 and famous to be the place of birth of Concerto, the popular liqueur;
Novella;
Paterno Sant'Elia;
Figlino;
Pietre;
Capitignano;
Paterno Sant'Arcangelo;
Corsano;
Campinola, whose church of St John th Baptist exhibits the amazing altar-piece representing the Virgin between St John the Baptist and St Francis, with the donator Francesco Telese and angel musicians (1608), oeuvre by Ippolito Borghese;
Polvica, administrative centre, housing a Franciscan convent, built in 1474;
Gete, where you will be fascinated by the splendid rocky church of St Michele Archangel;
Ponte and Cesarano: the parish church preserves the relic of the entire St Trifone's arm.

Other towns in the area: Amalfi, Positano, Ravello, Minori, Atrani, Maiori, Praiano, Cetara, Conca dei Marini, Furore, Montepertuso, Vietri sul Mare, Agerola, Albori, Erchie, Pogerola, Scala, Torello, Nocelle

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