Excursion, Tours in Amalfi Coast

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Tour from Rome to Amalfi Sorrento - up to 3 persons by car

€ 420

Tour from Rome to Amalfi Sorrento - up to 4/7 persons by MINIVAN

€ 540

Amalfi

Amalfi occupied a high position in the medieval architecture, the cathedral of Sant 'Andrea, of the eleventh century, the bell, the convent of Capuccini, founded by Cardinal Capuano, richly represent the artistic movement that prevails in southern Italy in the when the Normans, with a tendency to blend style with the Byzantine forms and clear lines of the northern part of the architecture.

Sorrento

Sorrento became an archdiocese around 420 AD. After the fall of the Western Roman Empire is ruled by the Ostrogoths and then returned to the eastern part of the Empire. The Lombard, who conquered much of southern Italy in the second half of the century 6, sieged is in vain.
In the centuries following the authority of the measure Byzantium Empire faded, Sorrento became an autonomous duchy. We fought against neighbor and rival of Amalfi and the Saracens, and in 1133 it was conquered by Roger Norman II Hauteville. From this point, the history of Sorrento followed by the newly formed Kingdom of Sicily.

The June 13, 1558 was sacked by pirates Muslims, an event that led to the construction of a new line of the walls. The most striking aspect of the next century was the rebellion against Spanish rule in 1648, led by Giovanni Grillo. In 1656 a plague struck the city. However, Sorrento remains one of the most important centres of the southern Campania.