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Salerno, in brief.

Amalfi Coast gateway, medieval medical school.

A lively port city and the gateway to the Amalfi Coast, with a long seafront promenade and a medieval quarter rising to a Norman cathedral.

Salerno was home to the Schola Medica Salernitana, medieval Europe's first medical school.

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