RAVELLO Amalfi Coast - Salerno Italy

Realizzato da Guido Valletta e condotto dalla bravissima Cinzia Morena.
Ravello was founded in the 5th century as a shelter place against the Barbarian invasions which marked the end of the Western Roman Empire. In the 9th century an important town of the Maritime Republic of Amalfi, an important trading power in the Mediterranean between 839 and around 1200.

In 1086 it was created as a bishopric see by will of the Norman count Roger Borsa. In the 12th century it had some 25,000 inhabitants. In 1137, after a first failed attack two years before, it was destroyed by the Republic of Pisa. After this event, it started a demographic and economical decline, and much of its population moved to Naples and its neighborhood.

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