Scala extends on the orographic right side of the Dragone torrent, carving terraces of limited extension on the limestone cliff, assuming a takeover form that is much rare in southern Italy.
The city is constituted by six contrade: Centro, Campidoglio, Minuta, Pontone, S. Pietro (Campoleone), S. Caterina. Starting from century X several buildings have been done: the cathedral, the Episcopal palace, the churches, the monastery, the convents, the chapels, the castles, the fortification walls, the noble palaces, the houses towers, the bathrooms, the newspaper stands.
The foundation of Scala is due to a group of Roman, being shipwrecked while they were giong to Costantinopoli, like marked in the Amalfitana report.
The testimonies of the roman influence in this country are found in the roman villa of Minors, various architectonic elements of marble, columns and ancient constructions.
Duffle-coat of Amalfi participated to the events of the republic and, like all the countries situated on the depositors of the Lattari mounts, it reached with the commerce a great prosperity and independence.
It has been the native land of Gerardo de Saxo who founded in century XI the ospidalieri, today Sovereign Military Order of the Knights of Malta.
It was an Episcopal center from the 987 to 1818 (in the 1603 two diocese of Scala and Ravello were joined in the person of a single Bishop).
A time Scala had 130 churches, 30 of which were parishes. Some of these can still be visited.
The cathedral dedicated to Saint Lorenzo, the church and monastery of the SS. Redentore, the chapel chapel of the Redentoristi Fathers, the palace Mansi d' Amelio and the chapel of the cove of S. Alfonso.
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