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The golden age of production and trade of Limone Costa d'Amalfi opened in the second half of the nineteenth century. Since 1860 began exporting in the U.S. in the same year came the lemon of the Amalfi Coast in the markets of France and Russia.The entire population of the Amalfi Coast was assigned to the work of cultivation, production and marketing, together with the construction of the gigantic terraces , the economy and local society is modeled on the trends of the product on domestic, European and overseas.The Lemon binds us to our territory from eras dating.
The small state Amalfitano, the most ancient maritime republic in the Mediterranean, is already an operational reality in the sixth century of our era.For centuries, independent and prosperous economic reality, with major ports in the Mediterranean, allied with the Arabs in the business and involved in the early Crusades, Amalfi knows, treats, supplements and promotes the culture of the production of lemons and its culinary and medical uses.The archives documenting its presence on the Amalfi Coast since 998 in a document of the Abbey of SS. Trinity of Cava.Initially referred to as citrus, takes in the thirteenth century in the vernacular language of Arabic to limunczello. The School of Medicine was able to practice, through the use of lemons from the Amalfi Coast, the experiences assimilated by scientific studies released by the Arab world.The people of Costa do their name and culture of the lemon. Before the commercial experience of the nineteenth century witnessed the first commercial trial of broad geographic and temporal. Already in the fourteenth century, the lemons of the Amalfi Coast international reach commercial markets until the early decades of the eighteenth century.Over 4000 years ago, the populations of China and India already appreciate the value of the ornamental citrus trees, thanks to the merchants, reached the Mediterranean through two routes, by sea to the Arabian peninsula and on the ground as far as Egypt. During captivity in Babylon, the Jews they met "the most beautiful tree" and assigned to its fruits, a value of ritual in the celebration of Succoth, the harvest festival.
The diaspora and the observance of religious precept brought the citrus trees in every country where Jews took refuge. For the Greeks, so rare and precious plants, which could not be in the mythical Garden of the Hesperides. For the Romans the citrus was a symbol of luxury villas and on the tables show the most exclusive. In the third century BC Theophrastus, a botanist greek, drawing on material collected in previous expeditions in Asia by Alexander the Great, mentioned the lemon as persicom melon (apple of Persia) extolling the medical virtues.Botamica The discussion was completed, the first by Virgil in the Georgics (first century BC.) and then in History Naturalis by Pliny (70 AD) who attributed both to the name of citrus medical malus (apple of the Media).
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