Modern Landscape in Tramonti

 

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Thirteen villages with as many parishes, scattered over uneven floors, are the territory of Sunset, the place takes its name from its morphological configuration, intra montes ", or land between the mountains. The origins of the town are not certain. According to what the historian Room "The story is silent about the first inhabitants of Tramonti, although not without foundation, one can attribute the origin of this village to the ejected and scattered Picentini, who fought and been chased by the Romans, were forced to seek shelter in nearby villages "of the same idea is also the historic Cerasuoli, who said that sunsets have originated from the union of Picentini, Etruscans and other peoples.Taking a cue from what is stated by the reporter Andrea Mola declined, the aboriginal inhabitants of Sunset were united in the consortium by the Romans, the founders of Amalfi and Scala, built, for safety reasons, on the western side of the village Cesarano, whose foundation dates back to IV-V century BC C.

This village was long the main bulwark of Sunset, and had to support the war against the principles of Durazzo and the Aragonese of Naples.The population went as it grows, is around the same place which was divided into villages. Even his logo is suggestive: three mountains topped by a crescent moon. In ancient medieval records were found reports about the existence of other villages (which takes its name from the most important families of place), in addition to the thirteen that constitute the current territory. Sunsets, like other countries of the Amalfi Coast, can not be considered separately from the town of Amalfi, in fact it came at the height of his greatness through a long ordeal of trials, struggles, victories, which also contributed to the various forces surroundings.

Sunset also has played an important role in the rise of the Republic of Amalfi, so will be involved with the defense of the coastal town of Amalfi against Lombard Arechi II, against the ambitious Sicardo until Amalfi freed from the dominion of the Duke of Naples, in December I 839, and the proclamation of the republic, began that glorious ascent that led her to be a great naval power for more than three centuries.Sunsets has used the trade of the Republic of Amalfi, thereby increasing its commercial and artistic development; would not otherwise be possible to explain the large number of churches situated there, ancient monuments, the presence of many noble families and the extraordinary number of famous men. With the fall of the republic Coast, by the Normans, and the resulting domination of these, he began a dark period of Amalfi and also the magnitude and importance of Sunsets went falling. By the Normans, the Swabians passed to the Duchy of Amalfi in 1197, then with the Angevin Charles I in 1266 and later to the Aragonese with Alfonso I in 1442.

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