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Ravello vacation planner
A travel guide to the garden-filled Amalfi Coast retreat of Ravello
Via Roma 18bis
tel. +39-089-857-096
www.ravellotime.it
Best hotels in Ravello
* Hotel Villa Maria [€€€€]
Hotel Toro [€€€]
Hotel Rufolo [€€€]
Hotel Villa Amore [€€]
» More hotels in Ravello [from €100]
» B&Bs in Ravello [from €50]
Viator.com tours
• Private Tour: Sorrento, Positano, Amalfi and Ravello Day Trip from Naples
• Pompeii and Amalfi Coast Small Group Day Trip from Rome
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Villa Cimbrone Gardens, Ravello.Hilltop Ravello, 6km (3.6 miles) from Amalfi town and 1,155 feet up in the hills, is a sweet-scented landscape bursting with color.
It's a tiny town of profusely flowering vines and shrubs where discreet hotels share space with everyday houses, tumbled-down buildings planted with vegetable gardens, and crumbling villas whose grounds and lush pleasure gardens have become public parks.
Almost every bend in the stony alleys and stairs opens upon a new eye-popping vista to the distant eastern stretch of the Amalfi Coast, or down into the Valle del Dragone (Valley of the Dragon) dropping below the western edge of town, a deep vale of green terraced with gardens and strewn with white houses and small hamlets.
The Valle del Dragone, Ravello.Ravello and its excellent restaurants make a marvelous escape from the tourist crush of the sun-worshipping towns down on the coast, and has long been a favorite with writers and musicians looking for a quiet retreat.
Gore Vidal long maintained a villa up here, and D. H. Lawrence and Greta Garbo both spent time unwinding in Ravello, a lofty Garden of Eden along the already enchanting Amalfi Coast.
Tips
- Planning your time: Ravello can easily be just a day trip of a few hours from Amalfi. If, however, you crave a more relaxed, quiet, cool place to spend the night along the coast, Ravello is just about perfect. Plus, its summertime series of open-air concerts—in lavish gardens and ancient church cloisters—make it an ideal place to spend an evening.
- Visitor information: The Ravello tourist office is at Via Roma 18bis, just up the street to the left of the cathedral (tel. +39-089-857-096, www.ravellotime.it).
- How to get to Ravello: First you have to get to the town of Amalfi (see the "Getting around the Amalfi Coast" page). From Amalfi, hourly SITA buses run through Atrani (next village down the coast) then cut inland up to Ravello in about 25–30 minutes. The bus lets you off just outside the tunnel-like gate into town.
- Book a tour: Consider booking a tour from Rome or Naples with our partners at Viator.com:
• Private Tour: Sorrento, Positano, Amalfi and Ravello Day Trip from Naples
• Pompeii and Amalfi Coast Small Group Day Trip from Rome - Concerts under the stars: The gardens, villas, and churches of Ravello are perfect settings for the series of chamber music, orchestra, and soloist concerts that run throughout the year. The Villa Rufolo, in particular, hosts a noted concert series from late March through October under the auspices of the Ravello Concert Society (tel. +39-089-858-149, www.ravelloarts.org).
In July especially, they celebrate the music of Richard Wagner (another Ravellophile) with performances by the likes of Placido Domingo conducted by Zubin Mehta and backed by world-class orchestras from Israel, London, Moscow, etc. Ask at the tourist office for details.
Related pages
- Ravello sights
- Ravello hotels
- Ravello restaurants
- Amalfi Coast Guide
- Getting around the Amalfi Coast
- Nearby destinations: Amalfi, Positano, Sorrento
- Sidetrips: Capri, Pompeii, Naples, Paestum
- Campania guide
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