Magically suspended between the blue sky and the sea of changing colors, the Amalfi Coast is the most beautiful natural terrace of the world. Located in Campania, This UNESCO World Heritage Site covers 34 miles of land and offers visitors an enchanting landscape where the sweet scent of lemon trees harmonizes with the acrid smell of salt air and the Mediterranean vegetation.
A vertical landscape, characterized by the famous terracing, It connects the two main elements of this landscape: the mountains and the sea. A continuous succession of promontories and inlets, bays and fjords, interspersed with beaches of pebbles and rocks on which you can still see the ancient viceregal towers, the first bastion of the local population against Saracen attacks.
The Amalfi Coast is not a geographical place, but an entity. Life is lived at a slower pace with the artisans who continue to carry on their trades, creating products such as handmade paper, colorful ceramics, specialty food and lemon liqueur that is exported around the world. Ferries ply the waters to transport patrons in cities up and down the coast. The kitchen is naturally focused on fresh fish every day and introduced the traditional regional recipes are simple but tasty.
All of the Amalfi Coast cities are connected by the scenic SS. 163, built in the first half of the nineteenth century, during the Bourbon period and has always been considered one of the most beautiful streets of Italy and the world. A stretch of road of about 60 km above the sea that connects all the small towns of the Amalfi Coast without ever losing the coastline and the sea view. Following the natural course of the coast, the path is full of curves, nestled between the rock and the sea cliffs, giving new and spectacular shots exit of each tunnel or hairpin.
Among a curve and the other, west of the mountainous coastline touches the road Vietri sul Mare, known as the entry point to the Amalfi coast, and then on to Positano, which rises up to the Lattari, and unwind on the Sorrentine Peninsula, until the tourist town of Sorrento.
Characteristic of this street is also signage. Along the way you can admire colorful ceramic tiles made in Vietri sul Mare. An alternative signage. in a tasteful and elegant style that expresses itself in the local craft special details.
The Amalfi Coast is an increasingly viable travel destination. Although the charm of this strip of land that hugs the sea changes every season, one for the Amalfi Coast is love at first sight, intended to last forever.