Consorzio di Tutela

Since the XI century the yellow of the "sfusato" lemon has featured the landscape of the Amalfi coast.

In this period appear the lemon groves, later called "gardens", for their care and beauty, very useful for the protection of the territory from the hydrogeological risk.

The lemon production also permitted to Amalfi, people of navigators, to always have on board ships a valid cure for scurvy.

From the 1400s, a flourishing maritime trade of this excellent citrus began from the town of Minori to the most famous both Italian and European ports, encouraging the diffusion of the lemon groves.

The "limon amalphitanus", later called "sfusato amalfitano", started its unstoppable rise, known and appreciated also in America.