The Furore fiord, Capodorso, the Porto Valley, the Path of the Gods, the Ferriere Valley: territories marked by superb ravines cut into the rock face and an intact Mediterranean maquis, small mammals and magnificent duck hawks, grottoes and torrents, unbelievable micro-climates and very rare ferns, woods and holm-oak thickets. It is a "Middle-earth", languidly suspended between nature and culture, where mother nature, still splendid and intact, affords accommodation to terraces and small fishermen houses, ancient sanctuaries for animals and shelters for brigands, evident traces of the legendary encounter between the Madonna and the Devil and vestiges of a historical naval battle, towers and paper-mills, ironworks and lime-kilns. Harmonious, powerful syntheses of the coexistence of man and the environment, the more secluded spots of the Amalfi Coast have put mother nature at centre stage and are touched only by distant echoes of the wealth of local culture.