Costiera Amalfitana & Positano Italy

Positano Italy is part of Amalfi coastal area ranging from Vietri sul Mare to Positano and country interiors, a route of 50 kilometers. Municipalities along the coast and immediately behind are: Amalfi, Vietri sul Mare, Minori, Maiori, Cetara, Tramonti, Conca dei Marini, Ravello, Scala, Ravello, Agerola, Praiano, Furore and Positano. The Amalfi Coast is part of the UNESCO World cultural Heritage.


The Area has been inhabited since prehistoric times, prehistoric remains from various sites attest that, although the advent of agriculture in the prehistoric period, or the Amalfi was almost totally uninhabited, then the Etruscans were the first in Vietri sul Mare .

The heyday of the Coast has had in ancient times with the Romans, where the patricians decided to establish their residence, so many villas were built along the coast.

A second important historic period was during the Amalfi Maritime Republic, together with Genoa, Pisa, and Venice, which story is played every year with the famous regattas, historic traditional festival, famous all over the World.

Positano is quite popuar around the World, with Amalfi, Ravello, from superb scenic beauty sites and treasures full of history. Positano and the Amalfi coast are popular with tourists, even with artists, people in search of sun and sea or peace and also young people looking for nightlife. The long history of Positano Italy is rich in a myriad of quotes, anedoti and literary works in various contexts.About 10,000 years ago, just after the last Ice Age, when sea level was much lower, certainly positive, as presumably other areas of the Amalfi Coast, was inhabited by hunter-gatherers, like Cro Magnon, this tells an archaeological find dating back to 70 years' of fossil bones of deer and wild boar beside a hearth of some 8,000 or 9,000 years ago, according to carbon dating, the Grotto of the port town at the "Shore".

But never mind the pre-and let's jump in the period of Classical Greece, the island mentioned in Homer's Odyssey, where Ulysses resisted the siren song of the Island was definitely the Gauls or Galli off of Positano, this gives us says that our coasts were already known to the ancient Greeks, though probably, according to the historian Strabo our area was almost uninhabited.

Historically Positano Italy comes from oblivion at the time of ancient Rome, on its shores, as for most of the Amalfi Coast, were built sumptuous villas belonging to wealthy freedmen, and "positive" probably takes its name from the most spectacular villa belonging to the freedman Posides swords, or at least from its Poseidon god of the sea.

Among the ancient inhabitants of the place is said of many villas, some of which are buried beneath the sands of main beach, starting from the pier where the boats dock passengers to the cliff of Enchantment (which takes its name from the supposed "Villa Incanto" ), namely the east side of the beach, where, in memory of the old fishermen still sticking a column used to moor boats. The most famous villa, is located in the Cathedral Church of Santa Maria Assunta.

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