Santa Trofimena, Minori's saint.

One village along the coast, Minori keeps the relics of Santa Trofimena, a young Sicilian martyr whose remains — the story goes — arrived by sea and chose this shore. Her basilica stands in the heart of the village: a calm neoclassical facade, polychrome marble inside, and the saint herself in a baroque crypt below.

It is the kind of church the coast does best — not a monument on a checklist but a working heart of a small town, at its loudest in July when Minori celebrates her feast with lights and fireworks over the water.

Getting there is half the pleasure: Minori is the next bay from Maiori — a few minutes by bus or taxi boat, or better, walk it via the Path of Lemons and arrive the way pilgrims did, from above, with the dome below you.