Conca dei Marini is not too far from Amalfi, and il located around a little cape called "Capo di Conca".

An old story tells that Conca was the warlike "Cossa", Roman allied during the Punic Wars.

The town is on a promontory, that looks onto a natural inlet, used to anchor ships, on its left side; on the right side of the promontory, there is the inlet of the "Emerald grotto ".

Places to visit :.

The church of S. Antonio, with its bell tower in maiolic ceramics and the church of San Pancrazio.

Above Conca, you can find the convent of Santa Rosa, built in the XIV century.

In this pleasant place, the local tradition mantains that, in the XVIII century, nuns invented the "sfogliatella", most famous neapolitain pastry.