Maiori is one of the municipalities of Amalfi Coast, which has been declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Here we can find the longest beach of Amalfi Coast, characterized by dark volcanic sand, and a smaller beach in the locality of Erchie, as well as several smaller creeks as Glauco's Beach, Capo d'Orso or Cala Bellavia.

Maiori: the origins of its name

According to the local historian Filippo Cerasuouli, the native name of Maiori, just as that of the river that crosses the town itself, is Rheginna, from the name of the Etruscan lucumon that founded it. Only after, during the Roman rule, because of a mistake of place-names, the name became Major, from which the current name of Maiori.