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Hotel
Olimpico
Litoranea
di Pontecagnano Salerno (Italy)
Tel: +39 089 203004 Fax: +39 089 203458
Amalfi Coast, Positano, Sorrento, Naples, Pompeii, Paestum, Capri, Ischia, Salerno, Ravello, Herculaneum, Mt. Vesuvius, Maiori, Minori, Vietri sul Mare, Furore
Chiostro del Paradiso
From the
atrium of Amalfi Cathedral access is gained to the enchanting Paradise Cloister
(Chiostro del Paradiso), one of the most famous and interesting buildings in the
small town. Built in 1266-68 on the orders of archbishop Filippo Augustariccio
as a cemetery for illustrious and worthy citizens, the Cloister is a delightful
building in Arabian style made up of a peristyle of coupled columns, that
support interlaced pointed arches, enclosing a lovely small garden with palm
trees. Abandoned at the beginning of the seventeenth century, the Cloister was
restored in 1908; in the galleries important remains from the Roman and medieval
periods can be admired: two ancient columns supporting eagles, the sarcophagus
of the decurion P. Ottavio Rufo, two Roman sarcophagi with bas-reliefs, one
portraying the wedding of Peleus and Tethys, the other the rape of Proserpine, a
fourteenth-century sarcophagus and, finally, fragments of the Cathedral's
ancient facade.