Cetara is a town and comune

Comune

In Italy, the comune is the basic administrative division, and may be properly approximated in casual speech by the English word township or municipality.-Importance and function:...

in the province of Salerno

Province of Salerno

The Province of Salerno is a province in the Campania region of Italy.-Geography:The largest towns in the province are: Salerno, the capital, which has a population of 139,579; Cava de' Tirreni with a population of 53,488; Battipaglia with a population of 51,115; and Nocera Inferiore which has a...

 in the Campania

Campania

Campania is a region in southern Italy. The region has a population of around 5.8 million people, making it the second-most-populous region of Italy; its total area of 13,590 km² makes it the most densely populated region in the country...

 region of south-western Italy

Italy

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. It is located in the territory of the Amalfi Coast

Amalfi Coast

-In popular culture:The Amalfi Coast is a popular destination among tourists. It was featured in "Positano," a short story written by American author John Steinbeck in 1953...

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History

The village was originally a settlement for a group of armed Muslim

Muslim

A Muslim, also spelled Moslem, is an adherent of Islam, a monotheistic, Abrahamic religion based on the Quran, which Muslims consider the verbatim word of God as revealed to prophet Muhammad. "Muslim" is the Arabic term for "submitter" .Muslims believe that God is one and incomparable...

s in 880. Characterized to be a village of fisherman

Fisherman

A fisherman or fisher is someone who captures fish and other animals from a body of water, or gathers shellfish. Worldwide, there are about 38 million commercial and subsistence fishermen and fish farmers. The term can also be applied to recreational fishermen and may be used to describe both men...

s (especially of tuna

Tuna

Tuna is a salt water fish from the family Scombridae, mostly in the genus Thunnus. Tuna are fast swimmers, and some species are capable of speeds of . Unlike most fish, which have white flesh, the muscle tissue of tuna ranges from pink to dark red. The red coloration derives from myoglobin, an...

), its name take origins probably from the Latin word Cetaria (in Greek

Greek language

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 Ketèia), meaning almadraba

Almadraba

Almadraba tuna is tuna caught by an elaborate and age-old Andalusian technique of setting nets in a maze that leads to a central pool called "copo". In Sicily, the mazes of nets, and also the places where the nets are set are called Tonnara, and the overall method of capturing the fishes is called...

 (in Italian

Italian language

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 tonnara); or cetari, meaning fishmonger

Fishmonger

A fishmonger is someone who sells fish and seafood...

s of big fishes.

Geography

Cetara is located by the Tyrrhenian Sea

Tyrrhenian Sea

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, on the Amalfi Drive

Amalfi Drive

The Amalfi Drive is the conventional name of a stretch of road which runs along the stretch of the Amalfi Coast between the southern Italian towns of Sorrento and Amalfi. The road was originally built by the Romans...

 road between the "Marina" of Albori and Erchie, bordering with the municipalities of Vietri sul Mare

Vietri sul Mare

Vietri sul Mare is a town and comune in the province of Salerno, in the Campania region of southern Italy. It is a popular tourist destination because it is a convenient place to start the Amalfi Coast drive.-Geography:...

 and Maiori

Maiori

Maiori is a town and comune on the Amalfi coast in the province of Salerno...

. Its municipalities is extended from the coast to the Mount Falerio and counts only one civil parish (frazione

Frazione

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): the little village of Fuenti, situated on the hills close to the Amalfi Drive.

External links

• Official site of Cetara