PLACES TO VISIT RAVELLO

VILLA RUFOLO-RAVELLO

Villa Rufolo was built in the historic center of Ravello, a town in the province of Salerno, which overlooks the square in front of the Cathedral of the Bishopric and the initial layout of which dates from the thirteenth century, with extensive remodeling nineteenth century.

 Brief History  Belonging originally to the powerful and wealthy family of Rufolo who excelled in commerce (a Landolfo Rufolo has been immortalized by Boccaccio in the Decameron), then passed by inheritance to other owners such as Confalone and Muscettola.
Around the mid-nineteenth century was sold to Scottish Francis Neville Reid took care of a general restoration, attributing today's environment.
You enter the villa through an opening in the arched entrance tower, and after a short street you come to a clearing dominated by the Torre Maggiore: the latter facing the bell tower of the cathedral in Ravello, overlooking the terraces (upper and lower) overlooking the Amalfi coast and the Gulf of Salerno extraordinary flower gardens that are home to most of the year.
Among the rooms of the villa is also worth mentioning a large courtyard elevated like a cloister and some salt added to the museum.
To commemorate the visit of the famous composer Richard Wagner in 1880 - here imagined the garden of Klingsor in the second act of Parsifal - every year the lower garden of Villa Rufolo hosts, with success, the Wagnerian concert.
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