Our history

History

The name ACQUAMARINA attributed to b&b, It born from the passion for precious stones from the owners.

According to legend, aquamarine originated from the famous sirens, and for a long time was the lucky charm of sailors; Today is linked to the concepts of familiarity, friendship, sympathy and it is these three adjectives the strengths on which our b&b leverages.

HE B&B

It is located in the center of Salerno, between the Amalfi Coast and Cilento, our b&b promotes a new concept of hospitality. Attention to detail, attention to style and design, choice of materials and modern facilities to accommodate tourists and business travelers.

Breakfast is served each morning in the common room

Our rooms: comfort and styling details

Rooms, all equipped with private internal bathroom with shower, they have air conditioning, heating, safe, Wi-Fi, desk, wardrobe and mini bar.

In the heart of the city

Our property is situated in a strategic position, just 500 meters from the central station, 50 Judicial meters from the Citadel, 600 meters from the seafront, 10 minute walk from the marina where ferries depart for the Coastal Amalfi. Available within walking distance private parking agreement.

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HISTORY OF SALERNO: FROM THE ORIGINS TO THE PRESENT

On the origins of Salerno lack precise information. The origin of “Toilets” could be traced to a Greek colony and its name seems to derive from “Salum” (big) ed “Irnum”. Just where now is built the old town of Salerno it was located on “Forum”, precisely at the current Piazza Abate Conforti, seat of “Decumano”, connected to the sea by what we now call Via Botteghelle. In 216 a.C., unlike other cities bells, Salerno sided with the Romans to fight, in the 2nd Punic War, Carthaginians; this brave alliance was rewarded by the Romans victorious they attributed to Salerno the status of a Roman citizen colony and the title “People ordus Salerno”. The Salerno jurisdiction extended beyond the borders of Campania, up to Reggio south and up the Ionian, in Puglia. In 644 d.C., during the barbarian invasions, Salerno was occupied by the Lombards, however, recognized that the full dignity and left intact the most important institutions, including the ancient “Medical School”. In 762 Salerno became principality, ruled by the Duke of Benevento, Arechi II, who he was crowned Prince of Salerno. The Principality lasted over 750 years. Around the middle of’ 800 the province of Salerno was divided into 5 “gastald”: Salerno – Conza – Rota – Sarno and Lucania (current Cilento). The Saracens, despite repeated attempts, They failed to capture the city; made history the battle of the year 871, which ended with a massacre of soldiers led by Abd-Allah, around “Torrione” that since then was called “carnaia” (Strong current Carnal).In 985 the city from Bishop's headquarters became sedeArcivescovile by Pope John XV. In 1075 He ended the rule of the Lombards and the Normans began to, led by the great Robert Guiscard, under whose reign Salerno became a magnificent and powerful city, with the realization of the Castle Terracena (Castello di Arechi) and the magnificent cathedral dedicated to S. Matthew the Apostle, Patron Saint of the City of Salerno, of which the remains are preserved here, together with those of other Santi including S. Gregorio Magno. Pope Gregory VII, persecuted by the power of the time, He took refuge in Salerno, where his life ended in the monastery of St. Benedict 25 May 1085. Subsequently the city became the capital of a kingdom with Norman Roger II, period during which there was a remarkable growth of trade and industrial activities, but also of medical studies and filosofici.Con the coming of the Swabians, Unfortunately, He began the slow decline of Salerno who became even more evident with the advent of the Angevin. Henry VI and his son destroyed the city and Frederick II completed the work of destruction, in other centers of the province, killing hundreds of Salerno. Only through the intervention of the great countryman Giovanni da Procida, who managed to influence the son of Frederick II, Manfredi, there was a truce that allowed the city to take a breath and start to slow economic and social recovery. It was established the famous Fair in September and was built pier that took the name of Pier Manfredi.Ma it was only a reprieve, a short period of renewed wellbeing, because subsequent events such as war, civil strife and other disasters, They did slip back into the ruined city and province that passed from hand to hand to shift Lords: Column; Orsini; Sanseverino. Only Ferrante Sanseverino tried to rebel against the foreign invaders but was soon defeated and exiled in France. After 754 years of domination, throughout the Middle Ages, the glorious Principality of Salerno thus saw its end which became even more definitive with the Spanish rule that reduced the city to a minimum and as the population, both as a Poverty. The vast Principality of Salerno was auctioned and 20 July 1572 It was sold by Philip V of Spain to the Duke of Eboli, Nicola Grimaldi, to the tune of 128.000 shields, payable by annual installments 24.000 shields. This embarrassing situation led some noble Salerno, including Marcantonio Ruggi and Gianvincenzo Quaranta, to offer the sum to King Philip V of 60.000 shields, However, paying in cash and in a lump sum. But this move did not help to revive the fortunes of the city that sank due to the spread of misrule, piracy and brigandage; all these circumstances contributed to plunging the city and the citizens in poverty that pushed many to rise and embrace the cause of the revolution, headed by Ippolito from Pastena. The 14 June 1566 Then it was the turn of the plague that appeared also in Salerno and throughout the province making a real massacre of human lives; in the years 1685, 1688 e 1694 Then there were disastrous earthquakes that ended up plunging the city into a tremendous misery. At the end of the nineteenth century Salerno and its province had a good recovery in the commercial field and Salerno participated actively in the struggle for Independence, with the decisive contribution of Cilento rebels. The 6 September 1860 Giuseppe Garibaldi entered the city, the head of the Red Shirts, Salerno and was thus included in the free Italian.

Pre-Roman Period
The territory of Salerno was undoubtedly inhabited since prehistoric times, but it is the ninth – Sixth century B.C.. we have the first evidence of an Etruscan-Samnite settlement, Irna, which stood on Irno River near the present district of Fratte.
This first group was an important strategic trading post for trade between the Etruscans and the nearby Greek colonies of Poseidonia and Elea.

Roman period
With the advance of the Romans in southern Italy Irna it lost its importance and was born at the foot of the hill Bonadies Salernum town, that was developed around a Roman fort (a fortification).
In 197 a.C. the settlement was expanded when it was less a colony on the proposal of the tribune Caius Atinio. Ascribed to the tribe Menenia, it was populated by Roman settlers who had the primary role of overseeing the region and control populations, as opposed to Salerno, were favorable to Hannibal. With time, its military function gave way to commercial. The city was crossed by the Via Popilia, which connected Rome to Lucania and Reggio, and as a result became a crucial point for traffic to and from Southern Italy. Archaeological finds, although fragmentary, suggest a thriving and vibrant city. During the reign of Diocletian was the administrative center (seat of correctores), along with Reggio, the province of Lucania and Bruzio. The decuman was now Via Tasso, while the hole was located in today's square Conforti; in the same square the Addolorata church was erected on the ruins of the Capitoline temple. Not far, the archbishop's palace is clearly made on a pre-existing pagan temple (probably dedicated to Pomona), given the presence of simple columns on the perimeter esterno.Con the barbarian invasions and the greek-Gothic war, Salerno followed the fate of the other cities of the south, passing under Byzantine rule. During the campaign against the Ostrogoths, around 538 d.C., conducted by the Byzantines and Belisario Narsete, the Roman castrum present on the upstream Bonadies, first nucleus of Castello di Arechi, It was restored and expanded taking on a considerable strategic importance

Longobardo Period
Salerno remained Byzantine until the sixth century. After a long struggle between the Byzantines and the Lombards, in 646 d.C. the city fell into the hands of the latter as part of the Duchy Benevento.Il Principality of Salerno around the Thousand reached the Ionian Sea and included all the current Basilicata With the advent of the Lombards began for the city the richest period of its history, a period that would last more than five centuries, in a never acme of splendor and fame reached more later. In 774 Prince of Benevento Arechi II decided to move his court in Salerno. The city gained importance and were made to build a number of works including the sumptuous palace of which traces remain scattered in the historic center as the whole Palatine Chapel (Church of San Pietro in Corte). In 839 the principality of Salerno became independent from Benevento, so coming to understand the territory of the Principality of Capua, the northern Calabria and Puglia up to Taranto.Il Guaimar IV, in the first half of the year 1000, also appended Amalfi, Sorrento, Gaeta and the Duchy of Apulia and Calabria, thus beginning to caress the dream of bringing together the whole of southern Italy.

Opulent Salernum diction was minted on coins that were beaten by the city for its trade in the tenth and eleventh centuries, a testimony to the moment of particular splendore.Il however principality was shaken by continuous incursions of the Saracens and by the internal power struggles. In one of these plots, in 1052, Guaimario was assassinated. He was succeeded by his son, Gisulfo II, but the Lombard domination of the south had already started at the end.

Svevo Period
The Salernitani immediately proved hostile to the Swabians: Norman literally kidnapped the heir to Constance of Altavilla to stop was given in marriage to the son of Barbarossa, Henry VI. These, He became emperor and took to Italy to claim the throne of his wife, He returned the insult by plundering and destroying the city in 1194.Le things went no better with his son, Federico II, who issued several edicts Salerno relegated to a secondary role. In particular, the medical school lost some of its importance with the founding of the University in Naples, although in Melfitane Federico Constitutions recognized at school the exclusive authority to issue degrees in medicina.Durante the reign of Manfredi were initiated by the port development works, strongly demanded by Salernitani. In witness whereof, still the old wharf of the airport was named after the Prince Svevo.

I Sanseverino
From the fourteenth century, the city of Salerno and its province became much of the current rule of the principles of Sanseverino, a powerful feudal family who greatly influenced on the fate of the Kingdom of Naples for much of the Renaissance.

Salerno in 1600
In the fifteenth century the town was the scene of clashes between the royal houses of Anjou and Aragonese, with which the local lords allied alternativamente.Il sixteenth century was a disastrous century for the city. Already during the first half of the last descendant of the Sanseverino (Ferrante Sanseverino, Instead Inquisition) He came into conflict with the Spanish rulers, ruining the whole family. Their fall reverberated also on populations, because their property was confiscated, divided and then donated or sold to many lords, marking the beginning of a long period of decline for the city of Salerno.Nel 1647, parallel to the Neapolitan revolt led by Masaniello, Salerno burst a popular movement led by Ippolito pescinvendolo Pastina. The revolt began as a reaction to the impoverishment arising from the fragmentation of local power following the fall of the Sanseverino and indiscriminate tax increases by the Spaniards. To make matters worse, in 1656 the population was hit by an epidemic of plague that decimated and when the city was still recovering painfully suffered a violent earthquake 5 June 1688, followed by another in 1694.Occorsero decades to Salerno to recover from these deadly events. In the early eighteenth century Salerno was reduced to a small town of a few thousand abitanti.Solo in the second half of the eighteenth century, after the end of the Spanish Empire, He began the slow rebirth of the city, which it was embellished by some buildings and churches.

Salerno during the Risorgimento
The majority of the population of Salerno enthusiastically embraced the ideas of the Risorgimento, according to historian Seton-Watson (in “Italy from Liberalism to Fascism, 1870-1925”) It is in the 1861 many Salerno participated with Giuseppe Garibaldi to’ Unity of Italia.Da then the growth of the city was almost giddy: the twenty thousand inhabitants who welcomed him to Garibaldi had become eighty when Salerno was the capital of Italy in the first half of the twentieth century.

The industrialization in the nineteenth century
In the nineteenth century were born in Salerno the first industries, mostly foreign capital: in 1830 He arose in the Fratte area a textile mill by the Swiss company Züblin Vonwiller, soon joined by the establishments of weaving and dyeing Schlaepfer-Wenner company. Simultaneously they arose in the same area of ​​Fratte also the mills and pasta factories Dini , among the greatest of’ epoca.La family Wenner, in particular, It will have a decisive role in the history of the manufactures of Salerno and dell'Irno Valley. The second and third generation of this family, Born in Salerno in places arose factories, It will help to further grow the industry until the early decades of the 1900.Nel 1877 They were on the territory 21 textile factories with about 10.000 workers: Salerno was nicknamed “the Manchester of the Two Sicilies”. To give a comparison, we think that in the same period in Turin, cities among the most industrialized of Italy, They worked in this sector alone 4.000 workers.

The Allied landing
From June to September 1943 the city was studded by the Anglo-American bombing. The next night on September 8, armistice day, Allies they began Operation Avalanche: hundreds of ships crowded into the gulf from Vietri sul Mare in Agropoli, while from heaven aviation he is beating a carpet the city of Salerno and the plain of Paestum. The German army tried to contain the Allies, but General Clark and Alexander managed to reach Salerno and were greeted with enthusiasm by the people.
The battles lasted for more than a week, with huge losses among civilians. They were completely destroyed 15.000 rooms and almost a quarter of Salerno industrial. Over eighty percent of Salerno properties were damaged by the fighting.

Salerno Capital of Italy
In the next months, from the 10 February to 15 July 1944 Salerno was the capital of Italy. At the beginning of 1944 Italy from Monte Cassino up was still under German occupation, and in this context the city of Salerno was chosen to host the first post-war governments. These executive of national unity took place following the so-called “turning point of Salerno” with which the Communists, led by Togliatti, They put aside their adversity towards the monarchy to establish – along with other political forces – a national liberation government, that mainly materialized with the Bonomi Government II. On 11 February 1944 He moved to the Salerno Pietro Badoglio Government (The Badoglio Government), They attended by two ministers Salerno (Giovanni Cuomo national education and Raffaele Guariglia foreign). The 27 April 1944 He convened the first Council of Ministers of the government of national unity after the fall of Benito Mussolini and Fascism, first step towards the restoration of democracy in Italia.il Minister Cuomo, during the Badoglio Government II, He obtained the creation of the “Magisterium” Salerno based in the ancient Palazzo Pinto “Via dei Mercanti”. In this form it took shape the rebirth of university studies in Salerno, after that – dissolved the Medical School of Salerno in the Napoleonic period – also the last remnant of Salerno universities had been abolished by the Minister Francesco De Sanctis immediately after the Italia.Ivanoe Bonomi Unit (Bonomi Government II), He became Chairman of the Board 18 June 1944, replaced Pietro Badoglio and Togliatti realized with the Turn of Salerno. The 4 August 1944 Rome was liberated from the Germans and the government continued to meet in Salerno until mid-August 1944, when he moved to Rome. In these five months of Salerno capital, King Vittorio Emanuele III lodged at Villa Guariglia , a private mansion in Raito , district of Vietri sul Mare , Salerno and participated in the political life. Alfonso Menna, who he was mayor of Salerno in the fifties, It used to say that the idea of ​​building the waterfront of Salerno was also coming from the King of Italy.