Villa Cimbrone in Ravello and Amalfi Coast

With its immense gardens and dreamlike views, Villa Cimbrone offers the most memorable view of the Amalfi Coast. In the distance, you can admire the profile of the Cilento Mountains and next to it, the plain on which the ancient city of Paestum was built. The main path, Viale dell'Immenso, includes a pergola, which is most noticeable in summer with the white and blue of the wisteria in full bloom. The gardens themselves are adorned with temples, statues that clearly confer a classic touch. On your way through the gardens, you will see: The Statue of Ceres, which is located in a small temple immediately adjacent to the belvedere; The Poggio of Mercury; Temple of Bacco; Eve Cave; The Statue of David, a copy of the famous sculpture of the victorious David di Donatello; Roses Terrace, which is only a few steps from the villa;The "Tea Room", a rectangular garden next to the rose garden that includes a Moorish style gazebo. After this visit and a break, in the afternoon your guide will drive you to Amalfi Coast. The Amalfi Coast is known for being the land of the orange blossoms and lemon trees, the saltiness of the marvelous beaches and the wildest Mediterranean scrub, all arranged in a vertical manner, together with the houses overlooking the sea and hidden in the maze of picturesque alleys. The first town you will visit will be Amalfi, the town that gives its name to the Costiera, which is located at the mouth of the Valle dei Mulini. It looks like a cluster of white houses, clinging to the rock and connected by covered alleys and stairways. At the center of the main square dominates the Cathedral of Sant'Andrea with the spectacular staircase, the bell tower in Arab-Norman style and the suggestive Cloister of Paradise. Interesting is the Paper Museum of Amalfi as well as the ancient and evocative Arsenals of the Republic. After you will enjoy the town of Positano, one of the most famous places on the Amalfi Coast, for its suggestive staircases, the whitewashed houses that follow the natural course of the mountains, creating a vertical landscape. Appreciated by artists and jet-set characters since the early post-war period, the town is famous for the production of leather sandals and cotton and linen clothes, for the beautiful nineteenth-twentieth-century buildings and postcard landscapes with the dome's background majolica of the Church of the Assumption and the Li Galli islands.