Mediterranean
The Amalfi Coast & Riviera
Lemon terraces, vertiginous pastel towns, and the particular Italian genius for turning an afternoon into an event.
The Amalfi Drive is famous and full; the sea is empty. From the water, Positano is a waterfall of houses, Amalfi a white amphitheatre around its striped cathedral, Capri a limestone dream. We anchor in the lee of the Sirens' islands and tender you to quays where the only queue is for granita.
North along the Riviera: Portofino's painted harbour, pesto made by hand in Camogli, and a final sail into Civitavecchia for Rome — the Eternal City by appointment, an hour away.
Ports & places
Where we call
Tender ashore to Spiaggia Grande; linen, lemons and a lunch reservation we have already made for you above the beach.
The Blue Grotto at first light before the flotillas arrive, then the chairlift to Monte Solaro for the whole Bay of Naples.
Amalfi's Arab-Norman cloister below; Ravello's Villa Cimbrone and its Terrace of Infinity above.
A harbourgallery of ochre and sienna; walk the lighthouse path through umbrella pines, aperitivo on the piazzetta.
Clifftop gardens, inlaid-wood ateliers, and Vesuvius smoking faintly across the water at dinner.
In the frame
The light of the place
