Atrani is a city and comune on the Amalfi Coast in the province of Salerno in the Campania region of south-western Italy.

They are grouped around the square and move around the church of San Salvatore and the marble fountain before going up towards the valley and climbing along the rocky mountain and crossing the gardens and the lemon fields.

[citation needed] Atrani boasts a Mediterranean climate, with mild and rainy winters and summers that are moderately hot, very sunny and almost never foggy.

The first documented proof of the existence of Atrani is represented by a letter by the Pope Gregory I to Bishop Pimenio of Amalfi dated 596 AD.

[citation needed] The Duchy of Amalfi extended from Positano to Cetara and also included Agerola, Pimonte, Lettere, Capri and the archipelago of Sirenuse (Li Galli).

It extended as far as Castiglione (now part of the municipality of Ravello), and was so named from the castellio, which was a large castle situated on the promontory where the collegiate church of St. Mary Magdalene stands today.

There was also the coastal tower of "Tumulo" or "San Francisco", built in 500[citation needed] by Don Parafan de Ribera to defend against the Turks who, after the defeat of the Christian fleet at Djerba near Tunis in 1560, would eventually overrun the coast.

[citation needed] The Earthquake of 1343 struck the Tyrrhenian Sea, and the resultant tsunami ravaged the ports along the Amalfi Coast, including Atrani's.

The effects of the tsunami were observed by the poet Petrarch, whose ship was forced to return to port, and recorded in the fifth book of his Epistolae familiares.

Born in Naples in 1620, Masaniello, whose full name was Tommaso Aniello d'Amalfi, was the son of Francis of Amalfi and Antonia Gargano of Atrani.

[citation needed] On 10 September 2010 the Dragone burst its banks following a flood and overflowed along the main street of the city.

[citation needed] Built in the 10th century, the church has a square plan with front porch and is divided into three naves with barrel vaults.

[citation needed] Located next to the church of San Salvatore de' Birecto, it consists of a single nave with a barrel vault.

[citation needed] The Collegiate Church of St Mary Magdalene was founded in 1274 on the ruins of a medieval fortress on the initiative of Atrani.

In 1753, as the population grew the church was enlarged and expanded by donations from private citizens in addition to the contribution of municipal regiment.

There are numerous statues and paintings placed in various side chapels: The Madonna shepherdess (famous sculpture of 1789) and The Incredulity of St. Thomas (work of the 16th century Salerno Andrea Sabatini).

[citation needed] The fortress is situated on the Monte Aureo, overlooking the town of Amalfi and Atrani and is located on the territory of Scala.

At twelve years old, in 1490, she married Alfonso I Piccolomini, Duke of Amalfi, who in 1498, left her a widow and mother of a newborn son at the helm of the Duchy, which at that time was in poor financial shape.

The brothers tried to suppress the scandal and, after many deviations and daring escapes, imprisoned Giovanna and their children in the Torre dello Ziro.

The building houses a Nativity scene, set up during the holiday season, whose characters are faithful reproductions of Atrani men and women during this period.

The location and size of the statues are directly proportional to the wealth represented: they were in fact the same people who commissioned and paid the characters.

The floor was constructed in the 19th century, with square tiles with geometric patterns, from the Collegiate Church of Santa Maria Maddalena.

[citation needed] Inside the building is preserved cinerary urn of white marble, dating from the Julio-Claudian dynasty, belonged to a freedman of Claudius or Nero.

The inscription of the urn testifies to the liberation that an imperial freedman, a noble of the royal family, granted to a woman who therefore, it is often assumed, has become her master's wife (a custom particularly common in the period between Augustus and Marcus Aurelius).

This cave is what remains of the Benedictine monastery of Saints Quirico and Giuditta male, founded in 986 by Archbishop Leo I.

[citation needed] The majority of the population is Roman Catholic belonging to the Archdiocese of Amalfi-Cava de' Tirreni.

[9] In the Netflix streaming series Ripley, Atrani is where Dickie Greenleaf and his girlfriend Marge Sherwood are living.