A city in continuous evolution. Numerous churches welcome the visitor who can cover an itinerary where faith and culture are interweaved in each corner of the village. Towers and Thoro Plano castel illustrate, instead, Maiori defense features: particularly the sight form of the castle allows to understand how in case of danger, it could represent a defense for most of the population, having inside farmable lands and even a church. Culture, then, can be tasted through typical dishes of the coast centre, among which there is an out-and-out deliciousness: chocolate aubergines. Ingredients and the way to prepare this dish remind us of contacts had with faraway lands, where spices and aromas represented an important component of gastronomy. Maiori, furthermore, represents the centre where in the past lemon was most cultivated, and till last centuries plants reached the beach.