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Cantine Marisa Cuomo Winery
A 20-minute drive up the hill from Amalfi, this boutique winery in Furore produces the Amalfi Coast’s best-known vino on steeply stacked terraced slopes overlooking the shimmering waters below. Indigenous grape varieties including Fenile, Ginestra and Ripoli produce fragrant blends...
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Cocktails with a View in Positano
Suspended on a small terrace above the bay, the Champagne & Oyster Bar at the Sirenuse hotel draws a chic crowd, some of whom emerge from the privacy of their yachts for an aperitif here. Larger and more dramatic is...
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Duomo di Ravello
This Romanesque cathedral, built in the 11th century, is the heart of Ravello. Its treasures are found in the soaring white marble interior, including the Chapel of St. Pantaleone, which holds an ampulla containing the saint’s solidified blood (believed to...
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Duomo di Sant’Andrea
Amalfi’s imposing duomo, with its marvelous painted façade and broad staircase leading up to it, looks like it came out of the operatic imagination of Franco Zeffirelli. The cathedral has traces of a hodgepodge of styles, including Romanesque, Byzantine, Gothic,...
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Go Hiking
The Amalfi Coast is renowned for having some of the most spectacular hiking trails in southern Italy. For active travelers, Amalfi and Ravello make great base points for hiking excursions. Most paths were carved out long ago for moving between...
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Grotta Smeralda (Emerald Grotto)
If you can’t make it to Capri’s fabled Grotta Azzurra (or prefer not to sacrifice an afternoon to the lengthy entrance procedure), consider visiting its green-tinted counterpart in Conca dei Marini, between Positano and Amalfi. An elevator leads into the...
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Mamma Agata Cooking School
Mamma Agata has cooked for everyone from Humphrey Bogart to Marcello Mastroianni, and she and her son-in-law, Gennaro, give cooking classes at her Ravello restaurant. It’s southern Italian to the core: you begin with an introduction over lemon cake and...
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Museo della Carta (Paper Mill Museum)
The paper mill that houses Amalfi’s Museo della Carta, a fifteen-minute walk from the duomo, dates from the 14th century, a time when the coast was sprinkled with mills and paper production flourished. What makes Amalfi paper unique is that...
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Music on the Rocks
Located just off the pebbly beach in Positano, Music on the Rocks is one of the town's best nightclubs. This glamorous Italian disco is built into the cliffside and is illuminated by a spiraling trail of candles, so revelers can enjoy an...
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Oscar Niemeyer Auditorium
The late Brazilian architect’s much contested (read: ultramodern) concert hall, near the Palazzo Avino and Hotel Caruso, is a 400-plus-seat auditorium that hosts concert series. The sleek structure, which has sweeping views across the sea, also draws architecture buffs.
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Quattro Passi Cooking School
An Amalfi staple since the 1990’s, the Michelin-starred Quattro Passi now operates a cooking school where students can learn to whip-up classic Campanian dishes (think simple pastas and fresh seafood) and beloved dishes from chef Antonio Mellino’s cookbook The Mermaid’s Cuisine. Even beginner...
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Ravello Festival
Also known as the Wagner Festival (the German composer was inspired to write parts of his Parsifal during an 1880s sojourn to Ravello), the four-month festival features an impressive lineup of cultural events, including readings, dance and opera performances, as...
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Villa Cimbrone
If you visit only one sight during your time on the Amalfi Coast, make it Villa Cimbrone, considered by many to be the most beautiful garden in Italy. The villa, now a luxury hotel, was the former home of British...
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Villa Rufolo
Fans of Richard Wagner know that the gardens surrounding the Villa Rufolo, the site of the Ravello Festival, inspired the German composer when he wrote Parsifal. (Wagner visited in 1880, and in his imagination, the Rufolo setting morphed into the...
Amalfi Coast

The key to planning a successful day on the Amalfi Coast is timing—and going against the flow. Because of how the roads run, the big tour buses coming from Sorrento arrive in Amalfi in the morning and Ravello in the afternoon. Savvy travelers can have a perfectly delightful morning in Ravello and tour Amalfi later in the day, when the groups are en route back to Sorrento.
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Consider combining your trip with one of these destinations.
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Sicily
Nearly the size of Massachusetts, Sicily is the Mediterranean’s largest island. Its many different regions offer a wealth of exploration, from the vibrant city of Palermo to the bucolic corners of the southeast.
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Aeolian Islands
These seven UNESCO-protected islands, rising from the vivid blues of the Tyrrhenian Sea north of Sicily, are each completely different in character and style. But all share an uncontested spot on our list of some of the Mediterranean’s best summer...
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Capri
Despite its jet-set status, Capri is also an ethereal, soulful island with especially stunning, fragrant landscapes. In some ways, one need only look to Capri’s past and present visitors to understand that the island is a place that’s at once...