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The sights of Amalfi
The attractions of Amalfi: the magnificent Duomo (cathedral), small museums, paper makers, and beach
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The Amalfi Cathedral.The star sight of Amalfi—indeed, of the entire Amalfi Coast—is the Amalfi's 13th-century Duomo, a magnificent Lombard-Norman facade of striped arches, Gothic tracery, interlocking arches forming blind arcades, and glittering mosaics rising majestically at the top of a mighty set of 62 stairs.
Don't miss the adjacent cloisters of paradise. 
Other sights & museums in Amalfi
An antique paper press in the Amalfi Papermaking MuseumOff Corso R. Marinare (the road east along the harbor), upstairs in the municipal buildings that surround a small piazza, is a tiny Museo Civico (free), which preserves those Tavole Amalfitane outlining the old maritime code.
Walk up the main drag, through Piazza S. Spirito, until the road enters the Valle delle Mulini, the old center of Amalfi's once-flourishing paper-making trade (most of the old mills have since been converted to apartments).
Eventually, you'll see an open door in a workshop on your left where the road narrows.
This was Amalfi's last true paper mill—now the modest but interesting Museo della Carta museum up the road (Via Delle Cartiere 24, tel. +39-089-830-4561, www.museodellacarta.it). It closed in 1969, but there are still a few shops selling handmade paper products if you follow the main road up the valley a bit.
Shopping for hand-made paper products
Paper-making in Amalfi.Amalfi has been famous for centuries for its handmade paper. There are several shops in town selling blank greeting cards pressed with wildflowers or bound leather notebooks for the tourists—and taking orders for more elaborate stationery projects like wedding announcements—especially if you follow the main street up the valley to the crumbling vestiges of the old paper mills.
Among the best is Cartiera Amatruda (Via delle Cartiere 100, tel. +39-089-871-315, www.amatruda.it), run by a family that has been in the papermaking business since at least 1483 (which is how far back the records go; the Amatruda were likely perfecting their craft long before then).
The Paper Museum gift shop (above) also has nice stuff.
Amalfi's beach
Amalfi's beach, right in the center of the port off Piazza F. Gioia, isn't much to write home about, but at least it's sandy and the section on the right is free. From the docks, boats leave hourly 9am to 4pm for an excursion to the Grotta dello Smeraldo.
Tips
- During regular hours (10am–6:45pm) the cathedral closes its main doors and you can only enter through the Cloisters of Paradise, and therefore must pay, but you can see the Duomo for free (though not the adjacent cloisters and small museum) if you come to mass at 9am or after 6:45pm.
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- Nearby destinations: Positano, Ravello, Sorrento
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