Minute
Minuta is a village on the Amalfi Coast , Salerno Province , Italy . Minuta (minor form: Minuto) belongs to the municipality of Scala .
location
The place is located at an altitude of 380 meters above the Amalfi mill valley . The road touches the place, the actual town center can only be reached via the stairways typical of the Amalfi Coast. One of these paths leads from Minuta into the Mühltal in about an hour.
history
The history of Minuta goes back to the Middle Ages, as evidenced by the cathedral . The first view of the small town comes from the sketchbook of the German painter Carl Blechen who hiked from Amalfi via Minuta and Scala to Ravello in 1829 .
Attractions
The main attraction of the place is the medieval cathedral. It dates from around 1200, has three aisles, 10 columns of ancient origin separate the central nave from the two side aisles. Antique spoilers are embedded in the portals of the facade ; the central portal bears traces of an ancient inscription. In the lunette of the central portal a 15th century Madonna . The crypt is decorated with frescoes from around 1200, some of which are in poor condition; the heads of some figures were recently cut out by art thieves. Among them, besides the depiction of a Byzantine Christ Pantocrator and a life of Mary , a cycle of frescoes is particularly interesting, which shows a miracle of Saint Nicholas : A child kidnapped by Saracens is returned to its parents thanks to the intervention of the saint.
literature
- Cesario D'Amato: Scala, un centro amalfitano di civiltà. Scala 1975, pp. 207-15.
- Dieter Richter : Carl Blechen sulle montagne della Penisola Sorrentina. In: Apollo, Bollettino dei Musei Provinciali del Salernitano XVI (2000), pp. 115-26.
Coordinates: 40 ° 39 ′ 13 ″ N , 14 ° 36 ′ 29 ″ E