Amalfi

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Amalfi is a quiet and picturesque seaside resort with a template climate and incomparable natural beauties. It has some of the oldest hotels in Italy as well as many modern ones. Originally Roma, it was the first Sea Republic of Italy. After the fall of the Roman Empire, it was the first city to re-estabilish a relationship between East and West by transporting and introducing into Italy exotic merchandise such as carpets, coffee and paper. Amalfi had its own coin, was the home of Flavio Gioia, the inventor of the compass and gave the navigators the famous maritime law known as "Tabula de Amalpha".

Amalfi founded an imposing hospital in Jerusalem and gave birth, in 1112,  thanks to Brother Gerardo Sasso from Scala, to the first military and religious Order called  The Knights of St. John, and then changed to The Knights of Cyprus, of Rhodes and, in 1530, of Malta, still existing today. The Knights fought repeatedly against the Saracens and, in 849, they defended Rome and the Church in the famous Battle of Ostia.