Furore, Anna Magnani and Fellini's goat

The good weather is returning, a perfect time to go exploring wonderful place, inextricably linked to two cinema superstars, Anna Magnani And Roberto Rossellini. A place that has its roots in a fjord, and at the same time rises on the slopes of the highest mountains overlooking the sea in Europe: Fury, splendid pinnacle of Amalfi Coast.

Here, the intoxicating beauty of the landscape mixes with the work of artists from all over the world who, by painting the walls of the houses and exhibiting their works outdoors, have created a sort of widespread museum. AND even nature shows its creativity: sea and mountains coexist in perfect harmony, between fishing nets and fireplaces. Even the vineyards in Furore become spectacular. Because here the grapes grow perched on terraces so impervious that you can't even get there on the back of a mule, but only on foot. Vineyards which, in exchange for this effort, are the source of wines that have conquered the world. Here, in short, reality and dream seem to meet. Just like in a movie…

«Cinema for the Amalfi Coast is the vehicle for making eternal, in dreams and in reality, a tourism hungry for myths», he explains exclusively for Vanity the very popular journalist and popularizer Alessandro Cecchi Paone, from Positano by adoption: «Modern and very ancient myths, but still firmly rooted in the collective unconscious. For this reason, every film shot here acquires an added value that few other natural, social and anthropological theaters can offer.”

In Furore, Anna Magnani he bought a small house. And he wanted it right in the famous fjord, in the heart of that sort of maritime nativity scene, squeezed between the beach and a dizzying cloak of verdant rocks. In reality the house is a typical one monazeno, a house-warehouse of the fishermen of the past. He paid for it 10 lire and it should have become the nest of his idyll with another giant of cinema: Roberto Rossellini. At the moment the house, although formally already intended for public use, is closed. But the rebirth of a small, precious museum dedicated to these two extraordinary characters appears imminent.

«In Furore», he says Antonella Marcheseyoung outgoing city councilor and representative of the People's University Terra fuoris, «not only the great actress, but the woman, left her mark. Which makes the possibility of relaunching his house-museum even more fascinating, making it a place of culture accessible to all, and strengthening Furore's vocation to also be a destination for international cultural tourism.”

In Furore, the Magnani And Rossellini they made the film The love. It was 1948 and there was also a certain person in the cast Federico Fellini, who plays a mischievous shepherd. The star of the film also became his pet goat: Nennella, as it was baptized. At the end of filming, the animal was donated by the production to the village parish priest. And he, in turn, gave it to his housekeeper, with the secret desire that she would cook it for him in the oven… But the woman, who was also a skilled cook, objected that that wasn't “one crap any”, but “one crap of the cinema” and that no one could eat it! The woman, in fact, became more and more fond of her and even took her with her to the garden, next to the church where part of the film had been shot. Sometimes the little animal climbed up to the pitch where the kids went to play football and among them there was also the then very young Raffaele Ferraioli, who would become a legendary, late mayor of Furore. He was the historical memory of this singular story. And how Nennella, the goat of Fellinibecame the mascot of the entire countrygrazing on the grass and contemplating the sea from the edge of those terraces overlooking the sea.

Beyond Magnani, the stories from Furore are many and range from Raffaele Viviani to Luciano De Crescenzopassing through the fascinating case histories Of Marisa Cuomo And Andrea Ferraioliproducers, among other things, of a wine considered among the best Italian whites: the Fiorduvaborn in those heroic vineyards of which we were talking, and aged in barrels that rest in suggestive caves dug into the rock. AND There are many opportunities for visitors. Excursion lovers will be able to explore paths overlooking the sea or along stone stairways that seem to unroll like ladders from the mountain to the sea. And, for those who love strong emotions, thanks to one of the zip lines among the most beautiful in the worldyou can literally fly up to it Conca de' Marini.

In short, such is the charm of Fury which continually inspires the work of artists and beyond. Domenico Rispolison of the famous Gino, chose it as the ideal location to pay homage to it with a life-size sculpture portraying one of the most famous Campanian artists in the world (we cannot yet reveal his name). And a creative, young pizza chef, Pasquale Lovewhich also operates on the opposite side of Campania, a Telese Termehe baptized Fury one of his spicy creations.

We will return to this enchanted place to tell you about it preview of the opening of the Magnani museumbut in the meantime let's enjoy thisacute beauty of the Amalfi Coastwhere sky and sea give life to a game of mirrors which, just like cinema, manages to merge reality and fantasy, to the point of leading us into a new dimension where even glimpse Anna's shadow peeking out behind his small window monazenowith that slightly bitter but innocent smile of hers, and that unrepeatable sigh in her gaze…