RAVELLO
Ravello is situated between the hills od Dragone and Reginna. It's one of the suggestive places of the Amalfi coast. All Ravello's beauties, were praised by Boccaccio in his Decamerone, and by Wagner writing his Parsifal. Wagner said: ' I have found the garden of the Klingsor '. This place is really a garden of beauties, full of history and art, full of colours and lights, full of flowers, full of tourists coming from everywhere.

Ravello was founded between the end of the Roman Western Empire and the beginning of the Eastern Empire. About the VI century, Roman Patricians, went in the Dragone valley founding Scala and Ravello. When Amalfi became to have a prosperous and important period. Ravello's people were brave mariners and good merchants. Their ships sailed all the Mediterrian. They exported manufactured goods and very good agricultural products; they imported precious products from the Eastern, with whom they built palaces, churchies and so on.

In everytown they went, in which they had their commercial affairs, they had own roads called: Ruva Ravellensium. Very important were the dye-works. The composition of resistant and lasting dye, was the secret of Ravello. So in 1294, Charles II gave them the monopoly of that industry. All cotton and wool production of Amalfi, was dyed only in Ravello.

Only at the end of the XV century, the industry began to loose its importance. But with its commercial affairs, between the X and the XIII century, Ravello had a very big importance. Fortified with 3 stiles of walls and towers, 13 Parishes, 60 churchies, 4 monasteries, a big hospital. The end of Ravello begins with the coming of Normans. It was conquered by the Duke Ruggiero I and Ruggiero II. Ruggiero II destroyed it defenitely, but the really end came with the attack from Pisa, in 1337.