The old Arsenal
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history... The
Amalfi Marine
used as war ships some boats called “Sagene”, of Arabian
origin and they were nimble and fast. The Amalfi sailors used, later, the
“galley” with two mastes, two sails and from 108 to 120 sweepers. The
Amalfi sailors had also commercial boats, smaller than the first one and
called “Teridi” – “buctio” and “cocca”. Since IX century, the Amalfi ship were Known in the Mediterranean Sea; in 849 a fleet composed also by Amalfi’s wars ship defended Rome against Saracen invasion. This historical episode is remembered in the Vatican Museum, where there is a fresco by Raffaello Sanzio. |
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It is the rest of a bigger structure dated XI century; it probably reached until the quay, but it was destroyed by a violent sea-storm in 1343.
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Another
place where we can discover the wonder past of the Republic is the old
arsenal; we find it on the left side of the “Porta della Marina”, one
of the oldest door that ventured to the sea.