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which the driving force derived from the water, finally ab<strong>and</strong>oned after the flood of 1954, or converted to new<br />

uses. The lack of <strong>territorial</strong> constraints has allowed the persistence of the initial isolation of the villages,<br />

although the provincial road Chiunzi-Maiori - remake of half a century ago, the stock drawn at the end of the<br />

nineteenth century - is abnormal, the last director of expansion [10]. Numerous episodes of strong<br />

suggestion, is religious in <strong>nature</strong> - such as the Cave Chapel of St. Angel of Gete <strong>and</strong> the church of St. Elia of<br />

Paterno - that civil presenting buildings among the most qualified of the Coast to the Late Renaissance,<br />

which is noted between the houses of Conte <strong>and</strong> Pisacane in Pucara <strong>and</strong> Cardamone to Gete. The centers<br />

of the western slope wind along the primitive road that traced after 1811 it was ab<strong>and</strong>oned about twenty<br />

years later, continuing from Maiori along the coast to Vietri.<br />

As it can be seen from these brief notes, the preservation of the ancient urban structure of the Amalfi Coast<br />

was largely ensured by the almost total isolation in which the area lived until the mid nineteenth century.<br />

Since then, a series of modernization initiatives, increasingly linked to tourism <strong>and</strong> increasingly compelling,<br />

has put a strain on survival of the original urban structure. The conservation of this unique environment,<br />

recognized World Heritage Site, cannot ignore the value of all its components, first of all the design of towns<br />

that populate it, which merges inseparably with the celebrated natural features <strong>and</strong> l<strong>and</strong>scapes. It is hoped<br />

that this reflection may be the input to operate in this regard.<br />

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convegno “La costa di Amalfi nel secolo XIX. Metamorfosi ambientali. Tutela e restauro del patrimonio<br />

architettonico”, Amalfi 22, 23 giugno 2001. Amalfi: CCSA, 2005, vol. II, pp. 15-64. ISBN 88-88283-33-1.<br />

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fondazioni secentesche della famiglia P<strong>and</strong>olfo. In AA.VV. Atti del convegno “La Costa di Amalfi nel secolo<br />

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[9] RUSSO, Maria. Progetti ottocenteschi di potenziamento della rete carrabile della Costiera Amalfitana. In<br />

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