Amalfi Coast

The Amalfi Coast (Italian: Costiera amalfitana or Costa d'Amalfi) is a stretch of coastline in southern Italy overlooking the Tyrrhenian Sea and the Gulf of Salerno. It is located south of the Sorrentine Peninsula and north of the Cilentan Coast.

Quotes

• Credesi che la marina da Reggio a Gaeta sia quasi la piú dilettevole parte d’Italia; nella quale assai presso a Salerno è una costa sopra il mare riguardante, la quale gli abitanti chiamano la Costa d’Amalfi, piena di piccole cittá, di giardini e di fontane e d’uomini ricchi e procaccianti in atto di mercatantía sí come alcuni altri.
• The sea-coast from Reggio to Gaeta is commonly believed to be well nigh the most delightful part of Italy, and therein, pretty near Salerno, is a hillside overlooking the sea, which the countryfolk call Amalfi Side, full of little towns and gardens and springs and of men as rich and stirring in the matter of trade as any in the world.
  • Boccaccio, Decameron, Day 2, Story 4 (tr. John Payne)