history
The Sant'Alfonso agriturismo is in Furore, a splendid village along the Amalfi
Coast, set along typical terraced slopes from where one can gaze across the vast
Mediterranean sea.It is said that the village's name comes from ‘Terra Furoris’,
a depiction of raging seas crashing against the cliffs.
The Cuomo family undertook radical renovation work on the 17th century farmhouse,
yet the property has kept many outstanding period architectural features, such as
the murals in the small entrance hall, its structure, antique portals, the kitchen
furnace with its central chimney channeling smoke to a smoke room, a laundry equipped
with tanks and wash-tubs and antique maiolica tiles, rescued and set into the modern
flooring.
Every corner evokes an energetic rural life cleverly exploited to the full, as testified
by the central well, fed by a natural spring that was also used to irrigate the
land, a traditional barbecue and circular press carved out of a 12 metre high oak
tree.
The silence, peace and beauty of this location were what inspired the Redemptorist
Fathers to build the chapel dedicated to St Alphonsus M. dé Liguori that still stands
and the monastery, which today is the farmhouse. Nowadays anyone wishing to retreat
from the tumult and stress of everyday life can find sanctuary here in a place on
a human scale.