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Vietri sul Mare is one of the most important coastal municipalities in the province of Salerno, nestled in the most protected bay views, immediately west of the capital city and at the beginning of the Amalfi Coast, which can be considered "the first pearl ". The center of town, dominated by Mount S. Liberatore, lies on a strip terrace overlooking the sea and is dominated by the mother church of San Giovanni Battista, the main national monument, planting seventeenth century, topped dall'elegante majolica dome.

The Dome of the Church of San Giovanni BattistaSulla underlying broad and equipped beach stretches amounts Marina, a destination for tourists and summer weekends, with the middle of the sixteenth century tower defense by the Saracens.

The other fractions were: Molina, who owes his name to the many mills that since the Middle Ages insisted in the valley of the river; Albori, a village with typical urban plant, clinging on the eastern side of a picturesque mountain valley dominated by Falerio; Raito, which as a balcony overlooking the Gulf of Salerno, with an elegant and collecting parish church, with frescoes by Solimena; Benincasa and Dragonea, surrounded by green forests and agriculture, the starting point for mountain hiking, and more decentralized to the location Fuente Cetara border.

The territory, crossed the river Bonea, is a welding point between the chain of mountains Lattari and more internal system Picentini mountains. The agrarian landscape roughly follows the Amalfi coast, where over the centuries to natural vegetation and the southern forestry training (chestnut, holm oak, coppice) man has joined a number of crops, including citrus fruits and vines, intervening in the layout of the ground with terracing. The valley is declared Albori station Pinguicola hirtifolia interesting carnivorous plant, endemic in this area preappenninica.

The origins of Vietri, the second most popular historiography, are due in artistic Marcina, Etruscan town mentioned in Geography of Strabo, which was extended on the ground with extension of Marina in Vietri capital, is thought to function primarily a merchant, which call to service Nuceria. The most recent archaeological discoveries have unearthed the graves in the capital with ceramic support archaic style Corinthian, a Roman spa in Marina and a "murus reticolatum" tip of the Roman sources, covered by the sea.

The existence of an ancient city there is also a clear confirmation of the name of locus Veter taken in Lombard from the territory of Vietri, Navy and Molina, in which the documents also identified a more circumscribed civitas Veter, planting early. A horse of the Mille territory, occupied by scattered settlements, administratively it was a suburb of Salerno; after gravitate into the Abbey of SS.Trinità of Cava, from the Renaissance to the last century has been a member of the City of Cava de 'Tirreni: in 1806 it became autonomous.

In past centuries the economic activities of the inhabitants of the area were directed to low (especially ceramics), handicrafts and maritime trade, the bay of Marina has played a unique role for Cava and the hinterland, especially trafficking with Sicily, Calabria and Cilento. In high fractions were prevalent occupations as construction, fisheries, marine, agriculture and the work related to forests.

In recent decades much of the population engaged in industry and in the private sector and public, has found in the municipalities adjacent to the work site predominant trade and activities related to tourism, in addition to traditional ceramics. To the majolica is linked to the reputation of Vietri in Italy and abroad, activities that is rooted in the Middle Ages, potenziatasi in later centuries and characterized by a search for original grounds, without denying their identity.

Thanks to its characteristics and its history Vietri is considered one of the ceramic production centers and traditional arts, for which a recent law providing for the creation of a brand that protects the production and image. The museum set up in the turret of a Villa Guariglia Raito collects ceramic artefacts from the eighteenth century to the first half of this century, in the expectation that future acquisitions may expand the evidence chronologically productive.

The ceramic craft has always been one of the drivers of Vietri. The oldest written records dating back to sec. XV, when they were produced Langella of bare clay. In those years, Vietri is just one of many centers of a broader reality production, which touched Nocera, Cava, Salerno. Among other things devoid of raw materials, clay, which, however, were particularly rich Nocera and Salerno. But with secc. XVI-XVII there is a trend of the production structure in key protoindustriale Vietri. The happy position of Vietri sul mare in the Tyrrhenian trade, the direct relationship of factories with the beach, gravitational center of the local economy, the natural supply of water that fed the driving force of factories, behind the hills rich in timber, training a local entrepreneurial class very active, particularly related to trade with Sicily, Sardinia, Tuscany, Liguria, are all factors that promoted the development of local Faenza.

The high furnaces at three levels, entrusted to the protection of Santo Antuono, sfornavano thousands of dishes of Giarre of Boccali. The traditional decorative motifs reflect a reality Arcadia, outside of time and space, in a sign of schematizzati particularly decorative. Pastors and peasant, rural landscapes, churches, country cottages, animals that inhabit remote forests, alien to the real landscape Vietri, fattodi sun and Mediterranean maquis, that stands out on the backdrop of blue sky which merges with the sea. These are the colors taken from the palette Vietri, thread of a tradition that is renewed in and decor in form but that never betrays not the quality of the material, related to the body enamel and the speed of large campiture of color, of which fit the fast gesture of sponge or Penello and agile game of the wrist.

Creative glance, immediacy of image, colors that match for contrast and not overlapping blurred, these characters that mark the path of production Vietri, even when, on the local, grafts from the twenties century. XX, the contribution of foreign artists and craftsmen: Dutch and Germans in particular. By Irene Kowaliska Arcadian spirit of local production is a clarification Space appear figures and scenes from the life of the place.

Figures are fishing for mothers with their children, marked by an abstraction interior that enhances the decorative value, suspended in a fixity that goes beyond the needs quotas, in search of an ideal beauty and poetic even in simple gestures of daily. The Dutch and Riccardo Dolker renew the traditional breaking the color brightness with the black night and their mysterious depths, which stand out scene told, real stories of daily life, religious, mythological. But the expression is the same color juxtaposed for contrast, without a shadow of steps, without shades.

Decorative line pursued by John Carrano and riscavata by Vincenzo Rispoli joins the plastic formulation. The expression tormented by Salvatore Procida, construction presepiali climb to Vincenzo and Joshua Procida, the frenetic-testing of forms and matter-of Guido Gambon, the plasticity of primordial pots to wick Andrea D'Arienzo are the most recent expression productive Vietri , Which goes beyond, with the tireless search form, the series of industrial product.

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