Travel’s taste YOUR LUXURY TRAVEL PARTNER IN ITALY www.italycreative.it Amalfi Coast Amalfi More about: things to know Coast www.italycreative.it Deemed by Unesco to be an outstanding example of a Mediterranean landscape, the Amalfi Coast is a beguiling combination of great beauty and gripping drama: coastal mountains plunge into the sea in a stunning vertical scene of precipitous crags, picturesque towns and lush forests. Most hotels and villas are open from March/April through October/November. The towns on the water with beaches include Amalfi, Atrani, Cetara, Furore, Maiori, Minori, Praiano, Positano, and Vietri sul Mare. Towns higher up on the cliffs include Agerola, Ravello, Scala, and Tramonti. Amalfi Coast is crossed by Strada Statale 163 Amalfitana (world-famous known as Amalfi Drive), a 50km (30 miles) stretch of road from north to south. If we take the two entrance points to the Amalfi Coast with Sorrento in the north and Salerno in the south, the road goes through the towns in this order: Positano | Praiano | Amalfi | Atrani | Minori | Maiori | Cetara | Vietri Sul Mare It's important to know the order as that would make exploring the towns a bit easier. The Sorrento to Salerno direction is more preferrable as, by being in the right lane, you are right next to the cliffs with no opposing traffic to block your view. There are no trains serving the Amalfi Coast. HOTELS selection Amalfi à POSITANO Coast www.italycreative.it Spread between four villas, each of the suites offers a unique blend of carefree comfort and careful attention to detail. Named and decorated by maestro Zeffirelli himself and his team, each room presents a different face from the extraordinary cast of Villa Treville’s rich history. The suites are named after previous owners, special guests or operatic works of Maestro Zefirelli. Uniquely decorated, each reflect the respecitve achievements and themes partly through the furnishings and objects d’art and further enhanced by the infusion of light and colour defining the particular space. HOTELS selection Amalfi à POSITANO Coast www.italycreative.it Understated luxury, surprising yet delicate details, unique peculiarities for each room, according to the hotel philosophy. Special rooms have a unique feature that makes them really special. Some of them have a large private terrace, some others offer a panoramic bathroom, while other Special rooms will surprise you with an astonishing view over Positano. HOTELS selection Amalfi à between AMALFI and RAVELLO Coast www.italycreative.it Striking the perfect balance of seclusion without solitude, Monastero Santa Rosa allows guests to determine the tone of their stay, whether they’re looking to disappear for an intimate getaway or gather with the group and make new acquaintances. It’s hard to imagine that the generous grounds, filled with four levels of gardens, lush landscaping, plentiful lounge chairs, and canopied daybeds, serve just 20 rooms and suites. Where most boutique properties might only offer in-room massages, Monastero Santa Rosa hosts a fully equipped spa to rival any major city spa, offering not just treatment rooms, but large-scale amenities that include a sauna, steam, mosaic-tiled experience shower, hydro pool, and tepidarium. HOTELS selection Amalfi à PRAIANO Coast www.italycreative.it The timeless elegance of style and service combines with cosseting accommodation, gourmet cuisine, restorative wellness therapies and an unsurpassed location, delicately perched above the azure tranquillity of the Mediterranean. Choose from one of the 39 exquisite and luxurious rooms and suites, including the ultra-exclusive Eaudesa rooms, almost at sea level. Wooden floors and playful pieces of bold contemporary art add warmth and colour to the sleek clean lines of the accommodations and public areas. Furnishings are eclectic and tactile, while discreet hi- tech elements enhance the quality of your stay, but are never intrusive. The highly professional staff successfully combines a casual joie-de-vivre with a perfect service mentality. HOTELS selection Amalfi à RAVELLO Coast www.italycreative.it A former 11th century palace set on cliffs beside the Amalfi Coast, Belmond Hotel Caruso seems to drift on a ‘balcony’ above the Mediterranean Sea. It is a triumph of the restorer’s skill. Its ancient walls and fresco-covered ceilings have been carefully preserved to make it a work of art in itself. Stroll through the terraced gardens or lounge beside the stunning infinity pool. Take a boat trip to Positano or discover Roman Pompeii. Wherever you turn, both inside the hotel and out, a world of heritage, culture and beauty awaits. Set in the very best part of the hotel with unrivalled sea views, the Exclusive Suites offer complete decadence in picture-perfect Ravello. HOTELS selection Amalfi à AMALFI Coast www.italycreative.it A late 19th century liberty style villa immersed in the beautiful scenery of the Amalfi Coast, an elegant seaside residence surrounded by the perennial blue of the Mediterranean sea and sky, by luscious bougainvillea and by lovingly cultivated olive groves and fruit orchards. Hotel Santa Caterina of Amalfi is a special place to experience the finest of Italian hospitality and lasting sensations of wellbeing. Classic Italian interiors, quintessentially Mediterranean architecture and the style of the villas of Amalfi: all of Hotel Santa Caterina's rooms are spacious and filled with light, with floors in antique hand painted majolica, marble bathrooms with brass fixtures, and balconies with view over the sea of Amalfi or the garden. Amalfi HOTELS selection à ANACAPRI Coast www.italycreative.it The hotel, with its imposing arches, vaults and columns reminds the ancient Neapolitan palaces of the 18° Century, together with the white architectures typical of the Mediterranean sea. The hotel is owned by the family Cacace and Tonino Cacace is managing it with elegance and deep luxury knowledge. The design of the suites, some of them with private swimming pool, brings your mind back to the charm and glamour of the myths: Callas, Hepburn, Monroe. In the others, paintings and pictures are a tribute to the experimental art of the Great Masters of Modern Art: Kandisky, Mirò, Mondrian, Calder. Art has really a leading role at Capri Palace in the form of metaphysical mannequins, huge bronze helmets and Hellenic portraits. Magical sensations reflecting in the halls enlightened by thousands of candles where one can graze a De Chirico painting or caress the bronze helmet by Mimmo Paladno or the magnificent alto-rilieveo by Arnaldo Pomodoro and surrounded by the sea. Amalfi HOTELS selection à ANACAPRI Coast www.italycreative.it Dating back to the early 19th-century, Villa Le Scale was once home to the Barons Monti Della Corte, whose family represents the union of two noble lines. This Neoclassical-style building is one of the few original Caprian Villas of that era still intact. The present owner, a distinguished antiquarian and noted art collector, has painstakingly restored the villa with delicate workmanship and exquisite interior decoration. The original structure has been enriched with contemporary features, but the mansion still holds all the fabled charm of Capri. The six elegant suites, all with period furnishings, bear suggestive names from the world of art and travel: the Artist's Suite, the Collector's Suite, the Oriental, the Venetian, the Voyager and the Louis XVI. The en-suite bathrooms are spacious and, depending on the theme of their room, have either a Turkish bath, plunge pool, duplex shower or jacuzzi. Amalfi Coast DISCOVERING www.italycreative.it AMALFI COAST's MASTERPIECES Not to be missed What to buy • Blue Grotto Hand-made paper from Amalfi ¡ Amalfi: Cathedral • Villa Ruffolo – Ravello Artistic Ceramic from Vietri sul ¡ Ravello: Cathedral, Villa Cimbrone, Villa Rufolo • Limoncello tasting Mare • Capri Woodwork from Sorrento ¡ Vietri sul Mare: Museum of ceramica of Villa • Positano Brillant colors painted ceramics Guariglia in Raito, Museum Cargaleiro • Ischia in Praiano and Positano ¡ Positano: Santa Maria Teresa of the Assumption, Cashmere in Ravello Saracens towers, Nocelle village, Montepertuso Handmade leather sandals in village, Marina Grande beach, Fornillo beach Positano Antique paintings ¡ Atrani: Church of San Salvatore, the landscape Lemon products ¡ Conca dei Marini: Grotta dello smeraldo, Clothes Convento di Santa Rosa (birthplace of ‘sfogliatella’), Torre Costiera ¡ Furore: the fjord http://www.italycreative.it/leisure-travel/wine-and-food/amalfi-coast- ¡ Maiori: Collegiata of S. Maria a Mare, castle of S. gourmet-vacation/ Nicola de Thoro-Plano, Grotta Sulfurea, Grotta di Pandora. http://www.italycreative.it/amalfi-coast-special-tour/ ¡ Minori: Villa Marittima Romana ¡ Praiano: stairways & little votive altars http://www.italycreative.it/leisure-travel/honeymoon/ http://www.italycreative.it/b-%C2%ADside-expo/sacred-mystic/naples- and-the-neapolitan-crib/ There are no trains serving the Amalfi Coast. http://www.italycreative.it/leisure-travel/art-design/magic-memorable- museums/ Exclusive: Special Romantic Dinner www.italycreative.it Ulysses' Table or Cupido's corner... What about a romantic experience on the sea? Ulysses' table on the rocks, our exclusive Romantic hideaway for two smelling the sea of Maiori. Just one hour from your hotel by car, but this is a romantic and suggestive place. Transfer for dinner by deluxe car. Exclusive: Cooking class in www.italycreative.it Paestum with mozzarella farm experience Leave your hotel early in the morning to Paestum and witness how artisans make mozzarella cheese from water buffalo milk.. Drive a short way for a guided walk in archaeological park to see the magnificent 5th and 6th century B.C. Greek temples. Possible dishes with mozzarella cheese: pizza in their wood- burning pizza oven, vegetable lasagna, eggplant parmesan or pasta with tomatoes and ricotta. Desserts like almond & chocolate torte. On the way back, stop in Vietri, the Amalfi Coast town famous for its ceramics. Visit a ceramics factory to see how they make Vietri style ceramics with free time to shop.