centro storico, costiero, Maiori, Reginna (denominazione originaria), Reginna Major (denominazione storica, epoca romana), Major (denominazione storica), Majuri (denominazione storica)

In Roman times, this coastal settlement was known as Reginna, later distinguished as Reginna Major to set it apart from its smaller neighbour, Minori. Today it is called Maiori, and its historic core unfurls along a sandy beach and into the valley of the Reginna Maior torrent. The early history is a familiar Mediterranean tangle: indigenous peoples, Etruscan colonisation, then definitive Roman control. Later came the depredations of a ninth-century Lombard duke, a period under the protection of the Amalfi maritime republic, and a Norman conquest that was the last in the region. Pisan raiders and Angevin politics followed, and the town passed through the hands of noble families including the Sanseverino, Colonna and Piccolomini. The architectural legacy includes the twelfth-century Insigne Collegiata di Santa Maria a Mare, a church founded in the fourth century that was rebuilt after a 1910 flood, and the early nineteenth-century Palazzo Mezzacapo, fully restored by its original family.

Description via source. Coordinates and heritage data from the Atika atlas.