Top Things to do in Amalfi Coast
Top 10 Specialty Museums in Amalfi Coast, Campania
Stretching along the southern side of Italy's Sorrentine Peninsula, the Amalfi coast dazzles with its mysterious grottos, craggy cliffs and shimmering bays. Grab a seat on the sea side of a regional bus to soak up views on the fabled route from artsy Positano to Amalfi. Ravello offers some respite from the crowds, plus the stunning Villa Cimbrone, which overlooks the Bay of Salerno. The historic section of Sorrento has winding streets filled with craftspeople. Capri is only a hydrofoil or ferry ride away.
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1. Museo della Carta
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4.5 based on 757 reviews
Reviewed By Beejtronic - Halifax, Canada
I know, I know. A paper museum? But this spot is truly fascinating! The paper mill has been operating since the 13th century and the tour gives you a great overview of the techniques used to make paper from that time onward- from the manual cotton presses to the water-powered pulp mills to the electric mills of more modern times. What's more, you can actually see demonstrations of these massive devices as they would have been used centuries ago! Our tour guide switched seamlessly between English and Italian and we had no problems following the demonstrations. We even got a free paper sample at the end, and the gift shop has some lovely items, including pressed flowers, notebooks and personalized wax seals. The surrounding neighbourhood is quite picturesque, as well, and it's worth a jog up the road from the marina.
2. Museo Diocesano San Matteo di Salerno
3. Chiesa di San Salvatore de Birecto
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4.5 based on 50 reviews
Built in the 10th century, the church has a square plan with front porch and is divided into three naves with barrel vaults. The oldest pieces in the church are: marble slab of the 12th century, depicting two peacocks. Doors of bronze, made in 1087, were donated to the church by the noble Atranese Viarecta Pantaleone.
4. Museo Roberto Papi
5. Museo Diocesano
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4.5 based on 47 reviews
Reviewed By Gordon_and_Sally_11 - Broken Hill, Australia
We visited this museum in June 2019 (we are still catching up on reviews!) and thought it beautiful - both the building itself and the artefacts on display. To give you an idea what to expect, we spent just over an hour in the museum and took 80 photos in that time! Visitors should be aware that there are dress code requirements here, as in many religious buildings in Italy. Light weight coverings are available for visitors in shorts or mini skirts and those with bare shoulders.
6. Pinacoteca Provinciale Salerno
7. Scuola Medica Salernitana Museo Virtuale
8. Museo provinciale della Ceramica
9. Museo d'Arte Sacra "Don C. Confalone"
10. Arsenale della Repubblica
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3.5 based on 126 reviews
The ancient shipyard, monument to Amalfi's sea power, is surprisingly well preserved in its unique medieval form. Its impressive elegant architecture, modelled from stone and mortar, consist of two parallel aisles covered by a double series of separate cross-vaults, supported by ten pillars. The museum of the Compass and of the Maritime Duchy of Amalfi documents and illustrates the great history of the ancient Maritime Republic of Amalfi. The museum's collection illustrates the evolution of nautical navigational instruments, among which is the compass, "invented", according to tradition by the Amalphitan Flavio Gioia, in 1302. The compass revolutionized navigation techniques, thereby opening up ocean rautes to the "New World". "The City-State", founded in839, remainded politically independent until 1135. Artefacts and relics represent the fundamental historical factors which permitted and preserved Amalfi's political autonomy,its social progress based on the rule of law and its economic prosperity:. The Translation's body of the Apostle St. Andrew from Constantinople to Amalfi, is re-evoked in a precious miniature of the Pontificalis ad usum ecclesiae salernitanae 492 and by the rare chronicle edited in 1656 by Andrè Du Saussay, Andreas frater Simon Petri deu de Gloria S.Andreae Apostuli. Exhibits of Roman and Medieval sculpture, ancient parchments, codices and manuscripts, statues in tufa, portraits of personages who belongs to the "Mythology of Amalfi", cartographic illustrations of the entity of the Duchy of Amalfi, artistic costumers of merchants and Ladies, knights and sailors, standard bearers and ambassadors, the duke and his bride, created according to the original model-designs of Roberto Scielzo (1955), all enable the visitor to relive one of the most exceptional moments in the history of Italy.
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