Fjord of Furore

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Along the descent through Furore you walk among terraced fields, mostly vineyards and lemon groves, torn with tenacity from the steep orography of the place. Here and there there are examples of typical Amalfi architecture (houses with arched loggias and sometimes extradossed roofs), while you can admire the promontory of Capo di Conca and the silhouette of Cilento beyond the Gulf. After passing the Porpora farmhouse and starting to descend into the deep and narrow terminal gorge of the Rio Penise, one understands why it was baptized Schiato; term of Greek origin (from skiatos) which means fracture, border. Its sheer walls make it really look like a gap due to a sudden tectonic movement (while, in fact, it is the result of slow river erosion; in the past it really represented an impassable border before the daring bridge of the coastal state road reunited the opposite banks .
The last flights of stairs, before reaching the bottom, pass in the suggestive seaside village of Marina Furoris, which enchants for the simple but elegant lines of the various houses, as well as for the way in which they approach one another; almost "crouched" in the narrow space that the rock offered here. A stone's throw from the houses there is the shoreline; penetrated into the gorge following the raising of the sea level, which took place after the last ice age. Finally, going towards the land, you can visit the rock chapel of S. Caterina d'Alessandria, protector of millers and the ancient water mills (three mills and two paper mills), which have recently been restored and museumized.