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Some hints of history: Praiano on the Amalfi Coast

Medioevo in Costa di Amalfi

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The event "Amalfi Coast in the Middle Ages" proposes theater, music and local culinary specialties with all participants wearing medieval costumes that accurately reflect those worn from the medieval period to the Renaissance. "Costa d’Amalfi in the Middle Ages" takes place in one of the loveliest settings of the area, honoring its historical importance and respecting the sensitivity of the architecture and structures... (to the website)

 

The name Praiano comes from the Latin Pelagium, which means 'open sea'. Even if there are not many information about this Amalfi Coast town before the Middle Ages, the area was already inhabited during Roman Empire. Praiano belonged once to the Sea Republic of Amalfi and the doges choose it as their summer residence. Still today it boasts a Middle Ages tower that belonged to the system of towers once built to defend Amalfi Coast from the Saracen incursions: the 'Assiola' Tower, also called “Sciola”. In the Angevin period there were two hamlets forming

Praiano and Vettica Maggiore, the latter has become a fraction , which later freed from Amalfi and developed a strong maritime economy thanks to a berthing place for ships called "scarricaturo ".

Coral fishing was an activity practiced by the inhabitants of Praiano until the end of 1800. Spinning, flax processing, production of hairnets, in which women were specialized, and brining anchovies were the most thriving local activities.

 

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