Agosto 14th, 2008
Ravello
Ravello lies on contrafforte that divides the valley of the Dragon than that of Reginna, dominating from its 350 meters high above sea level, countries Underlying Minor and Maiori.
Ravello, is a context where the atmospheric effects, luministici space and determine a vision intense, unique, which is sublime.
It felt the mysterious magic and immortalized the memory Giovanni Boccaccio in his “Decameron”. In 1819 the great English painter William Turner stayed in Italy, going up to Ravello.
The sketches that performed the Amalfi Coast are now exposed to the Tate Gallery in London. On the right of the Cathedral (located in the center) a square tower marks the entrance to VILLA RUFOLO, complex of buildings dating from the second half of the thirteenth century.
From the vestibule of the tower entrance, decorated with intricate arches on the walls and in the time and having the corners four large statues symbolising the Charity and Hospitality “virtue assiduously practiced by Rufolo” through a tree-lined avenue you reach the three-storey building . To the left is the Tower majeure, about thirty metres high, on the right is the courtyard, a square, like a cloister. Through the avenue is received at the terrace of Richard Wagner, so called because here, on 26 May 1880, the “musicality of lights and colors” inspired to Maestro framework scenic garden of Klingsor, the second act of the musical drama Parsifal. The dramatic landscape is now backdrop, every summer, the festival wagneriano, a traditional event for lovers of classical music.
