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Top 10 sights in Salerno

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   Amalfi Cathedral

   A medieval cathedral on the Piazza del Duomo at Amalfi, reached by a flight of sixty-two steps, with a striped Arab-Norman front rebuilt in the nineteenth century. The relics of the apostle Andrew, brought from Constantinople in 1208, are in the crypt.

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   Salerno Cathedral

   The main church of Salerno, built in 1084 by Robert Guiscard over a late Roman church, with the relics of the apostle Matthew in the crypt. Its atrium of reused Roman columns and two twelfth-century mosaic pulpits are the finest Norman work in Campania.

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   Villa Rufolo

   A villa in the centre of Ravello whose core is thirteenth-century and which was restored in the nineteenth by the Scot Francis Neville Reid. Wagner found the garden of Klingsor here in 1880; the Ravello Festival is staged on its terrace over the sea.

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   Nuceria

   An important Roman town of Campania near Nocera, southeast of Salerno, which sided against Rome in the Social War and was later rebuilt. Its amphitheatre and the fourth-century baptistery of Santa Maria Maggiore — a round building with a font of ten metres — survive.

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   Diocesan Museum of Amalfi

   The diocesan museum of Amalfi in the ninth-century Basilica del Crocifisso beside the cathedral, sharing the Cloister of Paradise. Medieval reliquaries, silk vestments and the cathedral's Byzantine bronze doors of about 1060 are held here.

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   Grotta dello Smeraldo

   A partly flooded sea cave at Conca dei Marini on the Amalfi Coast, where light entering through a submerged opening turns the water and the whole chamber green. It is reached by boat from Amalfi or by lift from the coast road.

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   Villa Cimbrone

   A villa at Ravello with fabric from at least the eleventh century, remade from 1904 by Lord Grimthorpe with statues, a crypt and a temple in the garden. Its Terrace of Infinity, a stone parapet lined with busts a thousand feet above the sea, is the most photographed spot on the coast.

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   Arechi Castle

   A castle on a ridge at about 300 metres above Salerno, founded by the Lombard duke Arechis II in the eighth century and enlarged by the Normans and Aragonese. It has never been taken by force, and the whole Gulf of Salerno is visible from the walls.

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   Dome of Ravello

   The cathedral of Ravello, founded in 1086, whose bronze doors were cast by Barisano da Trani in 1179 in fifty-four panels. Inside stands Nicola di Bartolomeo's pulpit of 1272, carried on six spiral columns that rest on lions.

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    Minerva's Garden

    A terraced garden in the old town of Salerno on the site where the masters of the medieval Salerno medical school — the first in Europe — grew their medicinal plants. It is arranged by the humours of ancient medicine and is claimed as an ancestor of the botanical garden.

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   Villa Romana of Minori

   A Roman villa of the first century at Minori on the Amalfi Coast, built on the shore with a colonnaded garden, painted rooms and a bath suite. It was buried by flood debris and found in 1932; a small museum holds the finds.

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   Shrine of Our Lady of the Hens

   A Marian shrine at Pagani near Salerno, whose name refers to the hens that are said to have uncovered the buried image of the Virgin. Its festival on the Sunday after Easter fills the town with tammorra drumming that predates the Christian rite.

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   San Giovanni del Toro

   A church of about 1100 in Ravello, built for the local nobility, whose pulpit is faced with Byzantine mosaic and supported on twisted columns. Its interior keeps three original apses and traces of frescoes.

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   National Archeological Museum of Pontecagnano

   A museum opened in 2007 at Pontecagnano Faiano near Salerno, holding the grave goods of an Etruscan settlement that marked the southern limit of Etruscan expansion. Nine thousand tombs have been excavated in the area since the 1950s.

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   Collegiata di San Michele Arcangelo, Solofra

   A baroque collegiate church at Solofra in the province of Avellino, whose coffered wooden ceiling holds a cycle of seventeenth-century canvases by Francesco Guarino. The paintings are the reason the church is visited.

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