Ravello

Ravello
Comune
Comune di Ravello
Amalfi Coast looking south from Ravello
Location of Ravello
Country	Italy
Region	Campania
Province	Salerno (SA)
Frazioni	Sambuco, Torello, Castiglione, Marmorata, San Cosma, San Pietro alla Costa, Monte, Casa Bianca
Area
• Total	7 km2 (3 sq mi)
Population  (2018-01-01)
• Total	2,506
• Density	360/km2 (930/sq mi)
Demonym	Ravellesi
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	84010
Dialing code	089
Patron saint	St. Pantaleon
Saint day	July 27
Website	Official website

Ravello's duomo in Vescovado's square

Rufolo Gardens

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Palazzo Confalone

Ravello is a town and comune situated above the Amalfi Coast in the province of Salerno, Campania, Italy and has approximately 2,500 inhabitants. It is a popular tourist destination.

History

Ravello was an important town of the Maritime Republic of Amalfi, an important trading power in the Mediterranean between 839 and around 1200.

Ravello was a diocesan town from 1086 to 1603; after that the bishop's see was moved to Scala.

Main sights

• The Duomo (Cathedral) of Ravello: the central nave contains the "Pulpit of the Gospels", on the right of the central nave, created in 1272 by Nicolò di Bartolomeo from Foggia.
• Villa Rufolo (1270), built by Nicola Rufolo, one of the richest Patricians of Ravello, on a ledge and it has become a famous attraction for thousands of visitors. The villa was mentioned by Giovanni Boccaccio in his Decameron and it is the place where Richard Wagner in 1880 was inspired for the stage design of his opera Parsifal.
• Villa Cimbrone, famous for its "Terrace of the Infinite".
• The church of San Giovanni del Toro (Saint John of the Bull) dating to before the year 1000. The church contains the Bove pulpit, dateable to 1200-1230, incorporated as mosaic fragments Raqqa bacini.

Culture

The town has served historically as a destination for artists, musicians, and writers, including Richard Wagner, M. C. Escher, Giovanni Boccaccio, Virginia Woolf, Gore Vidal,André Gide and Sara Teasdale who mentioned it in her prefatory dedication in Love Songs, one of her many books of poems.

Every year in the summer months, the "Ravello Festival" takes place. It began in 1953 in honour of Richard Wagner.

There is an ancient legend, still recounted by tour guides in Salerno and Amalfi, that it was to Ravello, with its breathtaking view of the Mediterranean and the dramatic Amalfi coastline, that Satan transported Jesus during His second temptation to show the beauty of the world's kingdoms. (Luke 4: 5-8)

Patricians of Ravello[1]

Acconciajoco (or Sconciajoco), Alfano, Appencicario, Aufiero, Bove (or Bovio), Campanile, Cassitto, Castaldo, Citarella, Coppola, Cortese, D'Afflitto, De Curtis, Dell'Isola (or De Insola), Della Marra, De Piccolellis (or Piccolella), De Vito, Fenice, Foggia, Frezza (or Freccia or Frecciario), Fusco, Giusto (or de Iusto), Confalone [2], Grisone, Guerritore, Longo, Marinelli, Muscettola, Papice, Pironti, Rago (or de Raho), Rogadeo, Rovito, Rufolo (or Ruffolo), Russo (or De Rubeis or Rossi), Rustici, Sasso,

See also

• Amalfi Coast
• Villa Cimbrone
• Villa Rufolo

External links

• Official website
• Ravello Tourism Society with a good page on the town's history
• Ravello Concert Society
• Ravello e le sue chiese
• News about Ravello - in Italian and English. News in English are normally posted under "News Amalfi Coast"
• Ravello photos