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The Queen of the Coast

Amalfi

The Amalfi Coast seems to be one grand balcony suspended between a sea of cobalt blue and the feet of the Lattari Mountains, in a long stretch of hollows and promontories, coves, cultivated terraces, vineyards, and citrus and olive groves.
Set in a unique environment, it is an exemplar of a Mediterranean landscape and of enormous cultural and natural value due to its topographical characteristics, as well as its historical evolution. For this, it is protected by UNESCO.

  • Amalfi's Sant'Andrea cathedral with its staircase and the cafe tables in the square

    Piazza Duomo

    In the centre, a few minutes on foot

    The heart of Amalfi: a 62-step staircase leads up to the Cathedral of St Andrew, founded in 987, beside the 13th-century bell tower with its green and yellow majolica and the Cloister of Paradise of 1266. On the square, the Fountain of St Andrew dates from 1760.

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  • Amalfi from the sea: houses on the cliffside and the umbrella-lined beach

    Marina Grande

    Amalfi’s beach, two minutes from the Cathedral

    It opens right in front of the old town, between the harbour and Piazza Flavio Gioia: sand and pebbles, beach clubs and a free stretch, bars and restaurants on the waterfront. From the pier, boats leave for the beaches reachable only by sea and for Positano, Capri and Salerno.

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  • The bow of a wooden gozzo on blue water in front of the coastal caves

    Emerald Grotto

    In Conca dei Marini, by boat from Amalfi or from the coast road

    It owes its name to the light filtering through an underwater opening that turns the water green. Discovered by a fisherman in 1932, it still has the stalactites and stalagmites from when it lay above the sea and, on the bottom, a ceramic nativity scene from 1956. Visited by rowing boat; closed in rough seas.

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  • An Amalfi Coast cove from above, with boats at anchor and beach umbrellas

    Duoglio Beach

    A kilometre and a half away, down some 400 steps or by boat

    In the hamlet of Lone, at the bottom of a stairway that drops from the coast road through the scrub: pebbles, crystal-clear water, two beach clubs and a free stretch. The sun leaves it in the early afternoon; those who would rather skip the steps come by boat from the Amalfi pier.

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  • Amalfi beach from above, with blue and white umbrellas along the shore

    Santa Croce Beach

    Less than three kilometres away, reachable only by sea

    Below Vettica Minore, on the boats that shuttle from the Amalfi pier in summer. It takes its name from the ruins of a medieval church; beside it, the natural “lovers’ arch” over the water, where tradition has couples exchange a kiss.

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  • The bell tower of Amalfi cathedral framed by a stone arch, the harbour behind

    Amalfi Coast

    From Positano to Vietri sul Mare, a UNESCO site since 1997

    Some forty kilometres of coast, with villages clinging to the rock above the sea and lemons grown on terraces. Since 1997 it has been a World Heritage Site as a cultural landscape, for the way people have built on and farmed so steep a shore. Amalfi, once a maritime republic, is its heart and gives it its name.

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