Valley of the mills and the paper Museum is one of the popular attractions of the famous Italian resort of Amalfi. The valley is located on the hill just above the city, and for several centuries was known as a local centre of paper production. This craft residents Amalfi borrowed from the Arabs, and they in turn adopted it from the Chinese. In the 12th century in Amalfi has produced some of the first in Europe to factories for the manufacture of paper from cotton and linen – they were converted from pasta factories. However, soon after, in the early 13th-century Sicilian king Frederick II forbade the use of such paper, preferring more traditional sheepskin parchment.

Despite this, production is slowly developed and prospered, and in the 19th century along the Amalfi Riviera worked more than a dozen paper mills. Only in the mid-20th century because of what happened flood almost all factories were closed and turned into flats. And in one of them, built in the 15th century, in 1969, the year was opened a Museum of paper. The initiator of the Museum was Nicola Milano, the factory owner and the representative of one of the Amalfi families, has long been engaged in the production of paper.

Today in the Museum you can see samples of vintage paper, to get acquainted with the process of its production, which occurred manually, and inspect restored the mechanisms involved in this process. On the ground floor there is a small thematic library and an exhibition of photographs and historical documents. Usually the tour lasts about 20 minutes, and after that you can stroll around the Museum and walk down to Amalfi, the picturesque Piazza Duomo and noisy street of via Genoa.