Vietri sul Mare is the first town on the Amalfi Coast that is found coming from Salerno.
The city is famous above all for the ceramics craftsmanship on which it has focused its economic and tourist vocation.
In the 16th-17th centuries there was an evolution of the productive structure from an industrial point of view, but it was in the 1920s that a new phase of the Vietri ceramics was due to the union of local artisans with the experience of a group of foreigners, mostly Germans such as Richard Doelker, Irene Kowaliska, Elle Schwarz and others who settled in Vietri.
Among the places of interest and monuments to visit we remember the church of San Giovanni Battista, in late Renaissance style, built in the city center at the end of the X century, interesting to notice the dome characterized by the double crowning in majolica; fabulous are the paintings that start from the seventeenth century and end at the eighteenth.
The Archconfraternity of the Annunciation and the Rosary, of seventeenth-century origin, decorated on the façade with painted ceramics.
Among the contemporary places of interest to visit, the Solimene ceramics factory, an example of organic architecture after World War II, created by Paolo Soleri; inside a vast collection of contemporary ceramics.
The Villa Comunale, an authentic masterpiece of art and landscape composition, emerges as a riot of colors, artistic expression and aesthetics of local craftsmanship. This masterpiece of art and landscape composition accompanies the visitor on a small walk that will lead him to the viewpoint from which he can admire the Gulf of Salerno in all its splendor.
Also in Vietri the visitor will be able to see the traces of the ancient Amalfi dukedom; it will be interesting to find them in the different towers built over the centuries as sentinel points:
Torre di Marina, Torretta Belvedere di Raito and Torre di Dragonea, dating back to 1100.
In particular, Torre di Marina was part of a strategic surveillance system for the Amalfi "republic".
The municipality of Vietri sul Mare has various hamlets, the ancient villages of Raito, Albori, Benincasa, Dragonea, Molina. Albori is a group of houses with domes
Moorish on the edge of the cliff and overlooking the Diva Costa: Albori is on the list of the Italian Touring Club (TCI) of the most beautiful villages in Italy.
