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Furore

Following the hairpin curves of the road cut along the coast between Amalfi and Positano, you'll 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.. while Fiordo is situated at the foot of the cliff, 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'll walk through tiny alleys and narrow plots of land miraculously torn away from the mountain and cultivated with lots of love.

The city from unmemorable times has been renowned as small coastal territory, lacking in cultivable lands and scarcely populated. This might be the reason why someone things that the first inhabitants, later on become able fishermen, artisans and farmers, originally were refugees of Amalfi, forced to live in this inhospitable place because exiled from their home town.

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

Some of the 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 left a great imprint of upright men: they constituted a conspicuous donation of ducats, through which incomes they would have married a "poor but honest and deserving spinster of Furore" ;-)

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 inhabitants began to dedicate themselves to fishing, hand-made products and milk pasteurising.

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.

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

The Fiord of Furore is a unique, natural refuge 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), in the Conca De Marini Municipality. 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. To 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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Other towns in the area: Amalfi, Positano, Ravello, Minori, Atrani, Maiori, Praiano, Conca dei Marini, Montepertuso, Vietri sul Mare, Albori, Torello, Nocelle

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