Must-SeeCapri
Campania
About 14 miles away
A glamorous limestone island in the Bay of Naples, with its glowing sea cave.
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Positano
Pastel houses stacked down a steep ravine to a beach, the classic picture of the Amalfi Coast.
- Open
- Always
- Price
- Free; paid for sunbeds
- Time Needed
- Half a day
- Address
- Spiaggia Grande, PositanoDirections
- Getting There
- By bus along the coast road, or by ferry from Amalfi, Salerno or Sorrento.
Why Go
Once a poor fishing village, Positano became famous after John Steinbeck wrote of it in 1953. Lanes of boutiques and steps lead down to the church of Santa Maria Assunta, with its tiled dome, and to the long pebbly Spiaggia Grande, where boats leave for Capri and the coast.
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