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Erchie
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Erchie,
a small Saracen village , was a Greek colony in the IV century
BC. In the X century the village, became very powerful because of the
Benedectine Abbey of St. Mary de Irchi, that held the Ius Piscarie on
all the fishingof the area. |
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In 1440
violent hurricane destroyed the Abbey and the village became a
fishermens village and an important tuna market. |
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The
S. maria assunta church is also of historical importance. It was built on
the S. Mariade Icriruins. The Saracen tower, situated on the west side of
the village is also an important landmark.
Erchie,
rises to half road between Amalfi and Salerno. From the road of the coastal
one, to the height of the Walloon of S.Nicola, graceful navy with the
village of Erchie is noticed, anciently called Ircle, Ercla, Hercla and
Ejrchia: The denomination would derive from the presence of a tempio
dedicated to Ercole.
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This
pleasant one contrada has had origin from a Benedictine abbaziale
monastero entitled S.Maria de Irchi founded towards the year 979 from
doge amalfitano Mansone III or second others from doge Giovanni II. |
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The
abbey came then plundered in abandoned june 1154 and in ruin, empty of
monaci and exposed to the frequent razzie of the corsari Africans. In
January 1541 press and interdetta with one came bubble from the
Pontefice Nicholas V.
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The
colorful beach is supervised from the tower omonima. The zone, barren and
wild, has been in arranged part to terraces, where citrus groves and
vineyards prosper, favorites from a climate optimal for great part of the
year. The center of the village is the chiesetta parochial, completely
reconstructed and consecrated in 1966.
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The
portale it introduces blocks of tufo dark and stone fine works you of
quattrocentesco late style. The inside is divided in three navate
delimited from two colonnati parallels of three columns everyone, with
arches to all sixth of style Romanesque. |
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It puts
into effect them columns in stone, sormontate from capitelli in
concrete white man, have replaced those ancient ones in marble, of
which today four they decorate the baptistry in bottom to the church,
while the others two are found on the apse where the altar rises
greater.
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For
who it enters, in bottom to the navata one of left there is the altar
in marble of the SS.Sacramento, while to right there is the lignea
statue of the Madonna " S. Assumed Maria ", which the church
is dedicated operates of the scultore Gia.Vincenzo Mussner di Ortisei.
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dictates statue, intentional from the parish priest of the time, don
Vincenzo Taiani, reached to Erchie 21 November 1967. The pavement is
in marble simple. In the apse they centers is a picture in
representing wood the Vergine with the Son in arm, of style bizantino
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