Friday 18 July 2014
The Amalfi Coast
is a stretch of coastline on the
southern coast of the Sorrentine Peninsula in the Province of Salerno in Southern
Italy. The Amalfi Coast is a popular tourist destination for the region and Italy
as a whole, attracting thousands of tourists annually. During the
10th to 11th centuries, the Duchy of Amalfi existed on the territory
of the Amalfi Coast, centered in the town of Amalfi. The Amalfi coast was later
controlled by the Principality of Salerno, until Amalfi was sacked by the Republic
of Pisa in 1137. Since then the Amalfi coast has experienced a crisis. In 1997, the
Amalfi Coast was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site as a cultural landscape.
The Amalfi Coast is known for its production of limoncello liqueur as the area
is a known cultivator of lemons, known as sfusato amalfitano in Italian, which are grown in terraced
gardens along the entire coast between February and October. Source
