The tour starts from the seafront of Maiori: walk along Corso Reginna for about 200 metres, then along via Casa Mannini, on the right, to the crossroads with via Nuova Chiunzi.
Cross it, take via de Jusola on the other side and, once past two old wooden crucifixes, turn right into Via Addolorata. After 50 metres, near a small fountain, climb to the left along Via Grade dei Pezzi.
Walk straight on until you leave the village, following the main path with its wide steps.
The path gets flat for a while and, past a pink and white isolated house on the right, start climbing again past the ridge going down to the sea near the wide steps (on the left).
After a few metres, you will get to a fork in the road: take the wide steps on the left.
Walk across the cultivated terracing and carry on climbing, passing by a red house.
Wade a stream, and after a little while you will get to a glade: in the middle stand the ruins of Santa Maria, the old farm of the convent.
From this point the steepest part of the path starts. Behind the ruins, following the well-beaten path, after about ten minutes go round a lime kiln, and then go on to the Acqua 'o Castagne (the Spring of the Chestnut tree).
At this point stands a fork in the road..
Go to the right, follow the path and go through Fullichito, a fern wood. After about twenty minutes, go to the left of the fork of the road: some yellow markings show the path that is anyway well recognizable.
Keep on climbing, past the base of a rock face on which stands the Grotta delle Soppressate (the Cave of Salami). After climbing for about other ten minutes, a small fountain indicates that you are at the Sanctuary..
From the sanctuary, there are several paths going down. This path takes to Erchie.
From the gate of the sanctuary, walk along the perimeter walls to the right. After a few metres take the faint path that goes down through the vegetation, along the slope of the towering Mount dell’Avvocata.
First the path goes through a wood, then through a fern wood, through some ruins, and after a while gets to a fork in the road. On the right an alternative path takes to Maiori.
Go straight on, walking along the mount, gradually down to the ridge. From here on, it is rather difficult to follow the path. The type of soil allows the stream water to shape several fake paths.
But, if you pay attention and remember you have to go down all the time, following the wide bend to the left you will gradually descend. So you will get to the path taking to a stream and then joining a clear track going up the valley.
Here turn on the right and follow the path. After five minutes there is a deviation to the left, marked in yellow. It continues to Cetara: go straight on to the valley, towards Erchie.
After a bit more than one and a half kilometre, cross an unfinished building, and from there, after a five minutes’ walk you will get to the main road above Erchie. The road bypasses the deep valley in which the village stands, and goes West to a fork in the road, leading to the beach.
A Greek colony in IV century B.C., the legend says that Erchie was founded by Hercules himself. Since X century it had the “jus piscarie” privilege, the right to get the tenth part of the fish caught in the whole area, and had Cetara, Fonti and the surrounding hamlets under its dominion. In 1440, a violent sea storm swept away part of the beach and the abbey with all its power.
Reduced to a fishermen’s village, in Erchie there was a "Tonnara”, the old tuna factory, and a market of tuna and swordfish.
In the centre of the village stands the Church of Santa Maria Assunta, keeping a painting of the “Virgin Lady with the Child” dating back to X - XI century. To get back to Cetara, you can sit on a SITA bus. The bus stop is at the fork in the road.
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