Positano is like a manger crowded of white small houses, a splendid degrading jewel on the sea crowned from a series of domes, often used like reservoirs on which the dome of S. Maria Assunta covered of majolica. Thanks to its traffics towards the Middle East, Positano became rich enormously deserving the name of Gold Mountain.
At that time dates back the beautiful dwellings.
Probably it is the more ancient place of the Coast of Amalfi, with anthropological takeovers that go back to the advanced Palaeolithic as it is demonstrated also to the findings in the cove the Door. The name of the coastal village probably has an uncertain etymology to the fenicio, Pesitan that means Neptune, legacy to the legend who narrates of the adventure of some sailors, coming by the East, that transported a sacred icon, swept up from a storm, heard a voice to say “rests rests” and they interpreted it like the will of Madonna to head towards earth, where then was constructed a Church. The Church of S. Maria Assuna, today appears on the public square Flavio Gioia decorated from the precious mosaics of Mimmo Champion, anticipates an evocative majolica dome to yellow floor tiles and greens. Al its inside guards black Madonna with the bizantin origin child and reliquary of S. Vito, one of the more important works of Neapolitan art. After the intense rivalry with the Republic Duffle-coat of Amalfi for the supremacy of the marine traffics in the Mediterranean and exceeded the period of the Viking domination, sveva and angioina, with the 1700's and the Borbone, Positano conquered the commercial supremacy in the Reign of the Two Sicilie. Beginning from the 1800's has conquered a world-wide reputation for its beauty.
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