The history of this village is closely related to events that occurred in the Marine Republic of Amalfi and named after "the sound of the raging sea pounding against the valley below". Due to its natural shape, the fjord, one of the most picturesque in Italy, was an unassailable fortress during the time of the Saracen raids, and a natural port where commerce thrived and the antique industries developed, such as paper production and the mills driven by the Schiato stream.
Furore is also known as "the town that isn't": in fact, rather than being a town with buildings close together, it is a loose group of houses sprinkled across the rocky cliffs.There is also a unique open-air art gallery, composed of over 100 "artist's walls," murals and sculptures that make Furore a "painted village" that tells its story in this manner as well.
The churches are the only other important buildings: the four churches of San Giacomo, Sant'Elia, San Michele and Santa Maria, with the majolica-tiled domes of their bell towers and the recently discovered frescoes (an interesting cycle by the school of Giotto in San Giacomo).
But the most attractive thing about this village-non-village is its beautiful setting: the olive trees, the grapevines on terraces going up the mountainside, the bowers of lemons with nets stretched between poles, the red roofs and colorful majolicas on the small bell towers, the brilliantly colored flowers of the wild blackberry brambles, and the sea: blue, down below, in the corner of your eye, ever present.