Vietri sul Mare, in province of Salerno, overhung from the Mount Saint Liberatore offers to the eyes of the visitor the church of John the Baptist, main city’s monument, dating 600 on which there is the elegant majolica dome.
The origins of Vietri, according to the more diffuse historiography, go back to the ancient Marcina, cited Etruscan city in Geography of Strabone, than the chief town was extended on the ground of Navy until Vietri; it probably had a mercantile function, as a port servicing Nuceria.
The more recent archaeological findings have brought to light in the chief town some graves with ceramic archaic equipment in corint style, a roman thermal Navy structure and a “murus roman reticolatum” to the tip of Sources, covered from the sea.
The existence of an ancient city is confirmed also by the denomination of locus Veteri assumed in the long bard period, Vietri, Marina and Molina, in whose some documents also circumscribed civitas Veteri, of alto medieval system.
Around the year Thousands the territory was the periphery of Salerno; after being in the orbit of the Abbey of the SS.Trinità of Cava, from the Renaissance to the past century it has taken part of the Cava dei Tirreni: in 1806 it became independent.
In the last centuries the working of the ceramics and the majolica has been asserted above all activities. It has roots in the Middle Ages, for which a recent national law previews the creation of an own brand to protect the production and the image.
The museum prepared in the little tower of Villa Guariglia in Raito collects ceramic objects from the 1700's to the first half of this century.
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