Church of San Salvatore de 'Birecto

Built in the tenth century., The Church has a square plan with front porch and is divided into three naves with barrel vaults. Was originally oriented to the west (entrance at Via Arte della Lana). In the current Baroque façade was built with the clock, the staircase el'atrio. At the time of the Republic of Amalfi, the church was the Palatine Chapel, where the Dukes were crowned and where they deposited their ashes.
The oldest are: a gravestone of the fourteenth century. depicting the noble lady Atrani Filippa Napolitano, a marble slab of the twelfth century. depicting two peacocks. The peacock was sacred to Juno, was revered by many Eastern people: as a symbol of vanity and pride, as well the nobles of the decisive factors in Amalfi, however, was a symbol of resurrection, the gates of bronze, made in 1087, donated to the church by the noble Atrani Viarecta Pantaleone, the same who had sent twenty years before the door of the Cathedral of Amalfi. Divided into panels of great artistic value, containing the effigy of Christ, the Madonna and some saints. Currently housed at the church of Santa Maria Maddalena.

Church of the Immaculate

Next to the church of San Salvatore de Birecto, it consists of a nave with a barrel vault. Curiously, the main altar in polychrome marble, is directed to the west, contrary to the medieval model. Embedded in the wall are used as a Roman cineraria water tank. The original bronze doors of the church of San Salvatore de 'Birecto were destined to it.

Collegiate St Mary Magdalene Penitent (PATRON OF THE CITY)

The collegiate church of St. Mary Magdalene was founded in 1274 on the ruins of a medieval fortress on the initiative of Atrani, who wanted so thank Santa for setting them free in the city, soldiers of a colony of Saracens. Over time the church has undergone major restoration. In 1570, threatening ruin and near collapse, was settled through fund-funded by special taxes on import of wheat and export of manufactured goods.
The building underwent a second operation almost a century later, precisely in 1669. On that occasion it was also repaired the sacristy which was fitted with an external buttress. In 1753, as the population grew, the church was enlarged and embellished by donations from private citizens, in addition to the contribution of the regiment Hall. It was during this work that the fortress was finally demolished in order to recover the space necessary for enlargement. In recent times it was renovated by the architect Lorenzo Casalbore of Salerno.
The temple has the distinction of being equipped with two transects of which, one is covered with vaults encased with majolica, but the other has a flat roof.
Among the numerous statues, located in different chapels side, and the seven canvases / nineteenth century stands out: "The Madonna Shepherdess" (precious sculpture, 1789), "The Incredulity of St. Thomas "(work of the sixteenth century Salerno Andrea Sabatini). The facade of the church is considered "the only example of Roccocò on the Amalfi Coast (Schiavo). From the terrace of the sacristy (always on the Slave) overlooking the Gulf of Salerno as the Belvedere di Villa Cimbrone (Ravello). Finally, the bell tower, with its brown tuff, reminiscent of the Madonna del Carmine in Naples.





Church of St. Michael the Archangel ( "Camposantino")

Said S. Michael Fuori le Mura, because that is outside the ancient walls of the city, near the North Gate, on the edge of Ravello. It was built between the eleventh and twelfth centuries. (Salazar), made from a cavity from Mount Civita. It is accessible via a flight of stairs to the top of which is placed the bell tower, beneath which passes the pedestrian street. The church's interior, the trapezoidal, shows the sloping walls of the rock, employed in length from graves. And the church was used as a cemetery (until 1927) and was a real common grave at the plague of 1656. Altar, baroque style, is located Cretella a painting dated 1930, depicting the Holy Warrior. To the left of the altar, a staircase leads to a small chapel, very similar to III chapel of the abbey of Santa Maria Oleari (Maiori).

Torre dello Ziro (Municipality of La Scala)

The fortress is located on Mount Aureo, overlooking the town of Amalfi and Atrani and lies on the territory of Scala. Do not know the precise date of construction, but the imprint Aragonese suggests the fifteenth century. The tower is no revenue and is supposed to access it you would use the stairs elevatoie. The structure, flanked by bastions and turrets, was in communication with another castle on the north, near Pontoon. The ruins of this castle today you can still see. The name of Ziro follows: from the Syrians, that is, tanks dug into the ground and sealed, which was equipped with the tower, from San Salvador de Cyrus, "which was a settlement hermit cave located below the tower.
The reputation of the construction is tied to the story of Juana the Mad: Joan of Aragon was the illegitimate daughter of Henry, in turn, illegitimate son of Ferdinand I of Aragon. At twelve, in 1490, she married Alfonso Piccolomini, Duke of Amalfi, who, I 1498, he left a widow and mother of two sons at the helm of Duke, who at that time was in bad financial conditions. The young woman put it back in the sixth Duke and against the will of the brothers married Antonio Bologna, her butler, with whom she lived a sweeping love story on the intensity of which abound in the chronicles of the time. The brothers pledged themselves to suppress the scandal and, after various vicissitudes and daring escapes, imprisoned Joan (now known as the Mad) and his children in the Torre dello Ziro. Here they were left to starve or, most reliable chronicles, their throats cut while the Bologna was made stabbing at the hands of assassins. These events inspired by Matteo Bandello the XXIV of his novels which were then drawn by two tragedies: "The Duchess of Amalfi" by john Febster; El Mayiordomo de la Duquesa de Amalfi "by Felipe Lope de Vega.

Church of Our Lady of Carmelo

Built in 1601 on the initiative of Scipio Cretella and Giambattista Vollaro, the church has a façade rather simple but remarkable results achieved in the Moorish bell tower. The interior is decorated in Baroque style, consists of a nave with barrel vaults. The altar is placed a fifteenth-century fresco depicting the Madonna, who according to tradition derived from a kiosk that stood in place of the church. The building houses a crib eighteenth century, decorated during the holiday season, whose characters are faithful reproductions of men and women Atrani era. The location and size of the statues are directly proportional to the census represented: they were in fact the same people to commission and pay for the characters. Then there were the common people that, even if no property, occupied a prominent place in the representation: "Catolla", "Puparuolo", etc .... They were their names.

Cave and home Masaniello

In this cave tradition has it that there is a refugee for some time Masaniello, hunted by soldiers of the Viceroy of Naples. Historically found, however, that the house not far belonged to the family's maternal Masaniello, which then was half Atrani.

Church of Santa Maria del Bando

Built in the tenth century. on top of Mount Aureo. Following restoration, carried out between the twelfth and thirteenth century., Decorative motifs typical of that era. The church has only hall with a small sacristy. The floor put in place in the nineteenth century., Is square-patterned tiles, from the Collegiate of Santa Maria Maddalena. The church is so named because the law is said that the Virgin granted a pardon to a man wrongly sentenced to bandit. The episode is portrayed in the fresco fifteenth surmounting the altar, which depicts the Madonna and Child, on the left side, a man about to be hanged.
According to another version, the name derives from the fact that quell'altera cliff, thanks to acoustic particular, were banished to the people the names of those elected to the dukedom.
All 'inside of the building is preserved cineraria white marble, dating from the years of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, belonged to a freedman of Claudius or Nero. The inscription bears witness to the liberation of the urn that imperial freedman granted to a woman who, therefore, assumed the noble of the ruling house became often, the wife of his master (particularly common practice in the period between Augustus and Marcus Aurelius).

Cave Saints

Below and not far from the Tower of the Ziro the cave of the Saints. A small natural cave, which opens onto a terrace planted with lemon trees, on the perimeter of an irregular quadrilateral and walls decorated with Byzantine-style frescoes, dating from the twelfth century. and depicting the 4 Evangelists. This cave is what remains of the Benedictine monastery of SS men. Quirico and Julietta, founded in 986 by Archbishop Leo I.