|
|
    |
|
||
|
 |
|
Furore
Furore was founded by a group of Romans who, followed by the Barbarians, sought refuge in the local mountains (the Lattari Mountains) from where they descended to settle on the coast. The town takes its name from the fury which takes hold of the sea during stormy nights, when the waves crash onto the craggy rocks, creating a frighteningly deafening roar. Gradually the inhabitants began to dedicate themselves to fishing, hand-made products and milk pasteurising. The “Terra Furoris” is the other face of the coast, where “noises are none other / than a slight flaw in the silence.” Some one ijn past defined it as “a place dear to the gods, a hanging garden clinging to the mountain and stretching out into the blue of the sea and the sky”. Its houses seems to have sprung up from a deck of cards scattered by the wind. A sleeping divinity could be hiding on the steep walls of the canyon or on some huge, rugged cliff: a naked faun, evoked once again by the free love heretics, or a siren, glimpsed from a stairway, from a boat on the sea, or from the path with flowering agaves. This is Furore: a well of mythic desires, the breath of a civilization on the edge of cliff poised above the sea.
Precious historical buildings in the valley around the village include the two flour mills and the two paper mills, interesting examples of industrial architecture that made use of the motive power of water. Next to this area are the fishermen’s monazzeni, old storage sheds for tools. The wedge-shaped stretch of sand in this narrow inlet has been a landing place for boats for centuries. After years of neglect and deterioration, this fishermen’s village is now entirely restored. here is also a unique open-air art gallery, composed of over 100 “artist’s walls,” murals and sculptures that make Furore a “painted village” that tells its story in this manner as well.
But the most attractive thing about this village-non-village is its beautiful setting: the olive trees, the grapevines on terraces going up the mountainside, the bowers of lemons with nets stretched between poles, the red roofs and colorful majolicas on the small bell towers, the brilliantly colored flowers of the wild blackberry brambles, and the sea: blue, down below, in the corner of your eye, ever present. Completing the panorama are the flaking, sun-baked walls, the high grass of the uncultivated fields, the boats pulled up onto the beach, the tortuous curves of the road: other elements in a landscape rescued from abandonment, which can return to life by virtue of its own legend The Fjord of Furore is a unique, natural refuge abounding in natural beauty. Inside it, along the opposing faces of the great valley, unveil many provocative walks: La Volpe Pescatrice Path (The Fishing Vixen)
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 carub 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 S.Elia, built in the XIII century, where you can see a triptych of Angelo Antonello da Capua. Our Favorite Restaurants in FuroreTourist sights in the area - Distances and driving times
Villas and apartments for rent near Furore:Villa Incantesimo, villa near Furore |
|
|
|
How to get from Salerno to Amalfi
Amalfi Nearby sights
|
|
|
|
Home | What to visit | Travel Tips | Postcards
All kind of questions and suggestions are welcome: info@summerinitaly.com. Copyright © 2001-2008 Summer In Italy. All rights reserved. |
Following the hairpin curves of the road cut into the green along the coast
between Amalfi and Positano, one comes to Furore, “the town that isn’t”. In
fact, rather than being a town with buildings close together, there are two
villages. : one on the sea, the other one the mountains. Furore is a loose group
of houses sprinkled across the rocky cliffs. These houses served to protect the
fields and the country. The village of Fiordo, instead, is at the foot of the
cliff, along the Amalfitana state road between Amalfi and Positano. The two
villages are connected by a long step, built during the Republic of Amalfi. It
has been the only connection from the sea to the mountains, for a long time.
The churches are the only other important buildings: the four churches of San
Giacomo, Sant’Elia, San Michele and Santa Maria, with the majolica-tiled domes
of their bell towers and the recently discovered frescoes (an interesting cycle
by the school of Giotto in San Giacomo).
The ancient fisherman'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.