Ravello

Ravello

The terraces of Villa Rufolo and Cimbrone, from which you can admire a breathtaking view, enchanted Wagner and Greta Garbo, in whose honor, every year, it is held the International music Festival , which has made the city of music Ravello on the Amalfi Coast a quiet and chic town, it was a flourishing center of commercial activities already between the eleventh and twelfth centuries. It is a terrace out to sea in the Lattari Mountains, which offers a scenario of natural beauty unique in the world. From its viewpoint, especially the one dedicated to Princess of Piemonte, the Amalfi Coast is in a dreamlike vision. Surrounded by the radiant nature, nestled in an idyllic position on a rocky spur that divides the valley of the river Dragone from that of Reginna torrent in one of the widest points of view of the Gulf, it dominates from a height of 350 meters the blue sea of the Amalfi Coast . Ravello is the protagonist of one of the finest tales by Giovanni Boccaccio in “Decameron”: Landolfo Rufolo, noble by birth, by choice pirate, shipwrecked by chance and, finally, for skill and good fortune, happy owner of an immense treasure. The sketches of the Amalfi Coast that he executed in 1819 the great English painter William Turner are on display at the Tate Gallery in London. Among its treasures of art stand apart the Cathedral, founded in the twelfth century; Villa Rufolo, whose origins date back to the eleventh century, with its astonishing flowered terraces and home of the stage overlooking the sea of the Festival, and Villa Cimbrone, famous for its exciting Belvedere, which offers the most beautiful panorama in the world ; Piazza Fontana Moresca and complete the picture, the charming tangle of streets that radiate charm and capture visitors by transporting them into another dimension, that of the dream, even at dawn accompanied by music with the traditional concert.