Atrani, Italy: The Amalfi Coast’s Best Kept Secret

Atrani, Amalfi Coast is one of the most beautiful places in the world, if not the most beautiful, and a place everyone should visit at least once.  No matter how many photos you see, they will never do it justice — it’s truly a place you must see through your own eyes.  It is pure magic.

The Amalfi Coast conjures up images of gorgeous cliffside communities with blue and white umbrellas dotting the Tyrrhenian Sea’s coastline. Lemons are emblematic of Amalfi, as are days spent soaking in the sun and practising “la dolce vita” in the art of doing nothing. The kind without traffic or cheesy tourist traps. The scent of the sea air and a great beach day spritzed with total relaxation and awe-inspiring beauty A place that reminds of the Amalfi Coast in the 1950s, when people were just discovering the charms and spectacular cliffside views of small seaside hamlet.

Seeing Atrani means getting lost in the smallest town in Italy by extension, an ancient village built in just 0.9 square kilometers, it has a small and protected beach where, in the evening, for fishing the lampara, which in the night dot the sea of a thousand bright spots.  In the village it is difficult to privilege an itinerary; its uniqueness is given by the compact beauty of the urban fabric, by the tangle of alleys, stairways and arches, by the contrast of lights and shadows of its characteristic squares, by the whiteness of the plaster, by the color of the gardens and orchards still widespread among the houses.