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A Built in the sixth century, around Mille was populated by a group of nobles of the Maritime Republic of Amalfi, ribellatisi to the doge. Ravello was chosen because it is on a very defensible position, on top of the buttresses that separates the valley of the river dragon than Reginna, the southern slopes of the mountains Lattari, overlooking the sea.

The city quickly became prosperous, in particular thanks to a booming wool spinners formerly known as "Celendra" that on April 23 of 1292 King Charles II of Naples awarded to Bishop John Allegri, the provident agriculture and intense entertained trade routes Mediterranean, especially with the Byzantine and Arab nations. Already high bishop's seat in 1086, during the next century is confirmed authentic power: suffice to say that already had 30,000 inhabitants. In 1137 Bernard of Clairvaux called the city "ancient munitissima and impregnable, as well as opulentissima, so beautiful that you can easily among the first and noble city.."

The history of Ravello took place in close connection with that of Amalfi. The economic and political decline began in the Norman period and became dramatically during the seventeenth century. Lost the economic prosperity, Ravello had solo.tutto the rest, that is all that today there is more valuable: a site incomparable natural and architectural wonders and artistic place in centuries of glory.
In the spring of 1880 in Ravello came Richard Wagner, accompanied by his set designer, painter Joukovsky. At the time, the great German musician worked the composition of Parsifal and it is clear how, in the magical creation of the garden of Klingsor, has played a big role the authentic charm of the garden of Villa Rufolo.

A witness statement is the autograph of Wagner that the register of visitors to the villa, on 26 May 1880, he had to write "The enchanted garden of Klingsor has been found." Even the choreographic invention Peer Gynt, the Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg, much must the woods, gardens and mysterious caves of Ravello.

The musical vocation of the place is confirmed by the presence, and repeated returns to Arturo Toscanini, Bruno Walter, Leonard Bernstein and Mstilav Rostropovich. Ravello also had the opportunity to host artists like the brilliant Spanish painter and ceramist Mirò, the Dutch designer Maurits Cornelis Escher, and, at the beginning of the British Turner, engraver, painter of watercolors and wonderful views, and Ruskin, writer and art critic. The theme is literary since the fourteenth century, by Boccaccio, what pù often used in drawing up a sort of roll of honor of the distinguished guests of Ravello.

Ravellian views are outlined in a story of Forster, the renowned author of Room with a view. Ravello had the fortune to host several other British writers like Virginia Woolf, the author of The trip to the lighthouse.

A Ravello, David Herbert Lawrence wrote several chapters of L'lover of Lady Chatterley and nonconformist writer André Gide Parisian environment part of his novel The immorality.
Finally, one can not fail to mention Paul Valery and Graham Greene, Tennessee Williams, Rafael Alberti and Gore Vidal. Among the statesmen, Einaudi, Kennedy, Mitterrand, De Gasperi and Togliatti. And among the actors: Greta Garbo, Humphrey Bogart, Paul Newman, Peter O'Toole, Robert De Niro and many others.

Boccaccio speaks of the Amalfi Coast as the "... most delightful part of Italy ... ... a coast full of small towns ... of gardens and fountains ... among which the city is one call Ravello. "

Ravellian is the protagonist of one of the most beautiful stories of the Decameron, Landolfo Rufolo: noble by birth, by choice pirate, shipwrecked for venture and finally, skill and good fortune, happy owner of an immense treasure.

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