Meeting with the guide and visiting the Castello di Lettere and the medieval village that surrounds it. The Castle stands on the top of a hill in the Lattari Mountains, dominating an area that extends from the Sarno valley to the City of Castellammare di Stabia with its gulf. Built by the Duchy of Amalfi during the tenth century, thanks to the Normans there was an extension and the construction of the adjacent cathedral. The Cathedral, dedicated to Santa Maria Trinitatorum, underwent several renovations, during which the side chapels and the bell tower decorated with grey tuff and yellow sandstone inlays were built. The village, which was the Castrum Licterensis, has walls made of limestone. In different places there were tanks and cisterns, which constituted a system of "tanks" indispensable for the life of the village. Lunch in the restaurant to enjoy the excellent local products accompanied by good wine in the area. Continuation to Stabiae, the ancient Latin name of the city of Castellammare di Stabia, which, thanks to its splendid geographical position and its particularly mild climate, has been inhabited since the seventh century. a. C. In Roman times on the hill of Varano, in a panoramic position, numerous otium villas were built, conceived mainly for residential purposes, with vast living quarters, thermal facilities, arcades and beautifully decorated nymphs. Villa San Marco, dating back to the early Augustan age, underwent successive transformations in the Claudian age. Through a small atrium, decorated with scenes of love fighters and boxers, you enter the spa district and the porch garden with swimming pool, on whose wall at the bottom of the hemicycle there was a nymphaeum decorated with stucco. At the end of the side porches there were the rooms for resting beautifully decorated. The nearby Villa Arianna, so called for the great mythological subject painting found in the triclinium, has a complex plant, both because it is the result of successive enlargements, and because it adapts to the shape of the hill which follows the course. The decorative apparatuses bear witness not only to the high standard of living that was to take place here, but also to the extremely refined taste of a high and demanding client. End of services.
