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Castellammare, Gragnano, Agerola, Furore, Amalfi. Stories, tastes and testimonies of the other Coast.

In a unique setting, heroic wines and tasty cheeses, memorable potatoes and reassuring seafood cuisine. Small places, but full of stories, passions and energy. All to be discovered on a gastronomic weekend among the forests and mountains and the sheer sea overlooks of the Coast.

21-February-2014

"We owe it to Ferdinand of Bourbon that from Amalfi one can reach Naples by land. Before that there was only the sea, or alternatively over a thousand steps to climb over the Lattari mountain range. This, if it created a centuries-long isolation of the hill towns, encouraged the survival of an environment and traditions that had disappeared elsewhere. Thus Amalfi-through Gragnano, Pimonte, Agerola, Furore-is within reach. Although the birth of the road has caused it to lose one of its primacies."

Raffaele Ferraioli, the historic mayor of Furore, has no doubts. The oldest of the Maritime Republics boasted along the Valle dei Mulini the presence of renowned pasta factories, which the new route has swept away. Thus the primacy of pasta passed to Gragnano, halfway to Naples and a stone's throw from Castellammare, rich in water: ideal climate and without the inevitable humidity that compromised the good quality of pasta, on the sea voyage from Amalfi to Naples.

(…) Furore is known as the country that is not there, precisely because of the scattered settlement of its built-up area. Thus it remains a territory to be discovered, and often unpredictable. Just think that through a geography of hairpin bends it reaches the sea at two points: the celebrated Fiordo, among the few examples in southern Europe, and the inlet of the Praia: perhaps the most evocative and authentic seaside village on the Costa". Raffaele Ferraioli is a river in flood. He points to the arbor vineyards, describes the wines protected by a DOC, comes alive for the Journalism Award, invites us to visit the village-hotel (more than five hundred beds out of eight hundred inhabitants), and reminisces about the World Cup diving from the Fjord. He recounts, recounts, recounts-it seems an outrage to stop him. So much is the charge of faith in the future destinies of his small town. And stopping means, however, enjoying good food from the sea and home (they coincide, here) overlooking one of the most beautiful terraces overlooking the Coast. It's worth it, if only for a couple of days. Pampered by Erminia and Rosa Cuomo's cuisine, spaghetti alla colatura di alici in primis: delicate and mouthwatering.

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