When Furore descends on the Coast one discovers the wonder of a small Fjord, in which the sea transcends into an intimate and sensual conversation with the land.
Here, among these "descending cliffs above the hanging waves," the sea thrusts itself into the sphere of the divine. The water seeps into the earth almost fertilizing it, in a ritual that is repeated moment by moment until eternity. The seaside village, the lost path in the woods are only faint traces to embark on your journey in this enchanted world, borrowed from a fairy tale.
A fairy tale that keeps you from staying waiting for just any story, because it offers you the most beautiful story you can imagine. The one between Anna Magnani and Roberto Rossellini, who built their love nest here. At the first shadows of evening, when the sea was beginning to turn violet, the two of them would vanish among these coves, in the fragrant silences of August nights. But her jealousy was ready to be unleashed at every threat. The announced storm erupted at the height of a jealous tantrum. He did not join her and she departed, leaving him forever.
Ancient and unabated in this land of passions is the care of the vineyards. Here wine captures the flavor and scent of the mountains, where vines lie on arbors built on terraces of stone and earth that slope down to the sea in the driest agriculture in the world. Extreme wines. Heroic wines, children of toil, sweat and peasant industriousness. A white of fresh aromas and a red that passes, slowly, through oak barrels restore enthusiasm and fever of life.
But Furore is also art. In the Chapel of Santa Margherita, inside the Church of St. James, frescoes of the Byzantine school, attributed to Odorisio, a Salerno painter of Giotto's school, tell the story of the "saint who came from the sea." The Church of St. Elias houses a 15th-century altarpiece by Antonello da Capua, depicting the Madonna between St. Bartholomew and St. Elias, considered the most important pictorial work on the Amalfi Coast.
And so, with the passion that has always animated them, the Furoresi have continued to have their stories, their legends, painted on the walls with renewed modernity. Along the road that meanders this scattered settlement they have created an en plein art gallery, an open-air museum with hundreds of pictorial and sculptural works created by painters and sculptors who have come here from all over the world..
Furore: "painted country," land of extreme passions!
Bernard Shaw
