Some hints of history: Praiano on the Amalfi Coast
Medioevo in Costa di Amalfi |
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...
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the website)
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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. |
