Excursions > Amalfi
Originally Roman, it was incessantly plunder and abamdoned, for this reason it proclame itself indipendent maritim republic.
It built ships, whith three floors and more than 116 oar, it use to make buiseness whith eastern civility, importing spices and cloth and importig its products like paper built whit first with papirus than with canapa imported by China.
Along the coast, we found a lots of whatching towers, against saracens and normans attaks. This merveillos period of Amalfi is testified by the arsenal that you can find in the main square.
Flavio Gioia, iventor of the compass, was born in Amalfi.
The Amalfitan have built a lots of monaster and hospital, also in Gerusalemme, in 1020, Fra Gerardo Sasso, from Scala, found the hospital that will become seat of the "San Giovanni dei poveri" cavalry.
Patron of Amalfi, Saint Andre, is celebrate two times a year. In Summer, the local fisherman, cover the statue that is located in the dome, and they run to the beach with it, all this to ask miracle to the Saint.
