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Children at the center between Maiori and Ravello, owes its name to the torrent Reginna Minor (or Reginuolo), which crosses. It was inhabited since the Roman, as the remains of the splendid Villa Romana. Experienced in the Middle Ages rather than a discrete economic development, so that the diocese was 987, pervolere of Pope John XV, and divided history and destiny with the nearby Amalfi, which also often rivals. Small, but charming, a beautiful waterfront, a beautiful fountain arricchitoda century (the Fountain of Lions), and a network of narrow streets and picturesque Animation, Minor has been repeatedly ravaged by natural disasters and plagues: the particularly terrible storm of 1597, which destroyed the walls and the main square. A visit worth the Cathedral, which houses the remains of S. Trofimena, revered throughout the Amalfi Coast, a remarkable marble pulpit of the seventeenth century. Also interesting is the baroque altar, wooden church of St. Lucia, at the Benedictine Monastery.

But, more importantly, Minor offers the opportunity to visit the ruins of a Roman Villa Augustan age (1 century), built on an area of 2500 square meters. The excavations began in 1932, and have resumed after the flood of 1954 the riseppellì under a blanket of mud. The building was originally two storeys, but the top is lost. Remains the ground floor, surrounded by three arcades and a ninfeo, and decorated with frescoes and mosaics. Inside, was found a swimming pool, also Roman.

The Villa Romana is of great archaeological interest: it is the only evidence of the kind that has survived in the Coast d 'Amalfi, and allows some feedback to the theory of historical importance that it (and in particular Minor) coated during the dominion of Rome. Furthermore, the place name, that is the name of the country is clear of Latin origin, as also that of neighboring Maiori. Indeed it may be appropriate to clarify that the augmentative (maior, that is greater) and the diminutive (minor, ie lowest), does not refer to the importance or the size of their respective countries, but the extent of streams that cross the center, which have the same name, Reginna: the greater one (Reginna Maior), less the other (Reginna Minor), even when both terrible crash into the sea in winter. And because both countries have repeatedly been ravaged by terrible floods. Fortunately, today the progress of civil engineering has made this threat a mere thing of the past.

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Amalfi Coast

Salerno and Cilento