Scala

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Scala is the oldest town of the Amalfi coast, set about 400 meters above sea level. According to tradition it was founded in the IV century AD by a group of shipwrecked Roman trying to make their way to Constantinople. Fortified bulwark, part of the defensive system of the territory of Amalfi, the history of Scala is closely related to that of the Marine Republic of Amalfi. It was a bishopric from 987 to 1818. In 1073, after a strong siege, it was burned by Robert Guiscard; soon after it was sacked by the Pisans, by Ottone Brunswich (1210) and by the Sicilians, after the famous Sicilian Vespers (1283). Scala is the birthplace of Gerardo de Saxo, the founder of the Order of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, or the Knights Hospitaller.
Scala is a town with a thousand-year history (during the height of its economic splendor it had about 130 churches), rich in monument of great artistic and historical value and an interesting natural heritage characterized by large chestnut forests, the State Natural Reserve of Valle delle Ferriere with its lush vegetation, and the terraces cultivated with lemons and "piennolo" tomatoes.
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