Most beautiful places in Italy Coast
1 - Amalfi
Amalfi is a town located in a magnificent natural setting at the foot of the steep cliffs on the southwest coast of Italy. Between the 9th and 11th centuries, it was the capital of a powerful maritime republic. The Arab-Norman Church of Sant'Andrea in the city center, with its striped Byzantine facade, has survived from this time. The Museo Arsenale Amalfi is a medieval shipyard converted into an exhibition space.
2-Positano
Positano is a cliffside village on the Amalfi coast in southern Italy. It is a popular resort destination for its gravel beach and narrow, steep streets lined with shops and cafes. Its Chiesa di Santa Maria Assunta features a porcelain dome and a Byzantine-style icon of the Virgin Mary from the 13th century. The Sentiero degli Dei walking trail connects Positano with other coastal towns.
3 - Polignano a Mare
Polignano a Mare is a town located on the southern Adriatic coast in Italy. It is known for beaches like the white pebbled Lama Monachile, also known as Cala Porto, bordered by a Roman bridge. Ponte dei Lapilli is a cove nestled at the foot of a cliff. The Pino Pascali Museum of Contemporary Art displays photographs and paintings. The sea-view convent of San Vito features a Romanesque church and a 16th-century tower.
Venice, the capital of northern Italy's Veneto region, is built on more than 100 small islands in a lagoon in the Adriatic Sea. There are no roads, only canals - including the Grand Canal - with Renaissance and Gothic palaces. The central square, Piazza San Marco, contains the Basilica of St. The Mark is paved with Byzantine mosaics and the Campanile bell tower overlooks the red roofs of the city.
4 - Cinque Terre
Cinque Terre is a progression of
centuries- ancient waterside hamlets on the hardy shore of the Italian Riviera.
In each of the five cities, polychrome companies and granges
hew to sheer decks, harbors crammed of fishing crafts, and diners that lay
seafood baronies with their big-name dressings. from the Liguria field, pesto. The Sentiero Azzurro
cliffside walkway connects the townlets and trials panoramic ocean panoramas
5- Capri
Capri, an isle in Italy's Gulf of Naples, is big-name for its hardened geography, high- end hospices and boutiques, from developer clothes to limoncello and handwrought leather sandals. One of its most noted natural spots is the Blue Grotto, a caliginous grot where the Neptune glows an electric gutter, the conclusion of sun entering an sunken grot. In the summer, Capri's operatic extent of shore attracts multitudinous yachts.
6 – Portofino
Portofino is a fishing whistle-stop on the Italian Riviera beach, southeast of the municipality of Genoa. Pale line Piazzetta, a cobbled harborage bursting with superyachts. A art prospects of the municipality and the Ligurian Sea.
7- Sorrento
Sorrento is a nearshore megacity in southwestern Italy, looking the Bay of Naples on the Sorrentine Peninsula. touched down atop the crags that dissever the cosmopolis from the industrious marina, it's visible for its panoramic water panoramas and Piazza Tasso, a quadrate lined with cabarets. The consequential axis is a warren of slender drives that house the Chiesa di San Francesco, a 14th- century temple with a restful monastery.
8-Sardinia
Sardinia is a large Italian island in the Mediterranean Sea. It has nearly 2,000 kilometers of coastline, sandy beaches and a mountainous interior with hiking trails through. Its rugged landscape is dotted with thousands of nuraghi – mysterious honeycomb-shaped Bronze Age stone ruins. One of the largest and oldest nuraghi is Su Nuraxi in Barumini, dating from 1500 BC.
9- Tropea
Tropea is a small town located on the east coast of Calabria, southern Italy. It is known for its historic center atop a cliff, its beaches and its precious red onion. Built on an old Byzantine cemetery, the 12th-century church features a marble coffin and a painting of Our Lady of Romania, guardian of the city. Nearby is a viewpoint on the hills. The centuries-old church of Santa Maria dell`Isola sits on a rock overlooking the sea.
10 - Puglia
Puglia, a southern region forming the heel of Italy’s “boot,” is known for its whitewashed hill towns, centuries-old farmland and hundreds of kilometers of Mediterranean coastline. Capital Bari is a vibrant port and university town, while Lecce is known as “Florence of the South” for its baroque architecture. Alberobello and the Itria Valley are home to “trulli,” stone huts with distinctive conical roofs.
11- The Amalfi Coast
The Amalfi Coast is a 50 km long coastal strip along the southern edge of Italy's Sorrentine Peninsula, in the region of Campania. It is a popular resort destination with steep cliffs and rugged coastline dotted with small beaches and pale fishing villages. The coastal road between the clifftop port towns of Salerno and Sorrento passes grand villas, terraced vineyards and cliffside lemon groves
12 - Sicily
Sicily, the largest island in the Mediterranean, is right next to Italy's "boot". The city's rich history is reflected in sites like the Valley of the Temples, the well-preserved ruins of seven monumental Greek Doric temples, and the Byzantine mosaics of the Cappella Palatina, a former royal chapel in the capital Palermo. To the east of Sicily is Mount Etna, one of the highest active volcanoes in Europe.
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