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Italia Positano 3 Enchanted coastal territory
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The Amalfi Coast is a popular tourist destination for the region and Italy as a whole, attracting thousands tourists annually. In 1997, the Amalfi Coast was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Positano was a port of the Amalfi Republic in medieval times, and prospered during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. By the mid-nineteenth century, however, the town had fallen on hard times. More than half the population emigrated, mostly to America. Positano was a relatively poor fishing village during the first half of the twentieth century. It began to attract large numbers of tourists in the 1950s, especially after John Steinbeck published his essay about Positano in Harper's Bazaar in May, 1953: "Positano bites deep", Steinbeck wrote. "It is a dream place that isn’t quite real when you are there and becomes beckoningly real after you have gone." – PowerPoint PPT presentation
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Title: Italia Positano 3 Enchanted coastal territory
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Positano
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Enchanted coastal territory
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Positano has been featured in several films,
including Only You (1994), and Under the Tuscan
Sun (2003), as well as more recently in Kath
Kimderella (2012) and being mentioned in the 2009
musical film Nine in the song "Cinema Italiano".
The Amalfi Coast boasts one of the most stunning
views in Italy
Mick Jagger and Keith Richards from The Rolling
Stones wrote the song "Midnight Rambler" in the
cafes of Positano while on vacation
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Positano Ferry Pier
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The church of Santa Maria Assunta erected in XIII
century
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Above the bell tower door, a medieval bas-relief
is bricked up, portraying a pistrice and, above
it, a stone dating back to 1902 remembers Flavio
Gioia from Positano, the inventor of the compass
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The church of Santa Maria Assunta features a dome
made of majolica tiles as well as a
thirteenth-century Byzantine icon of a black
Madonna. According to local legend, the icon had
been stolen from Byzantium and was being
transported by pirates across the Mediterranean.
A terrible storm had blown up in the waters
opposite Positano and the frightened sailors
heard a voice on board saying "Posa, posa!" ("Put
down! Put down!"). The precious icon was unloaded
and carried to the fishing village and the storm
abated.
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The black Madonna
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The tale goes on to describe the pirates being so
stricken with the wonder of the Black Madonna
speaking that they became Christians. The locals
of the area kept the painting and the town took
the name Positano after the words (posa, posa)
that were uttered from the artwork
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Baptismal font
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Baptismal font details
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Awesome ceramic store
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Ceramic store
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Via dei Mulini, an important shopping street in Po
sitano
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The wisteria covered streets of Positano
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Villa Flavio Gioia
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Sunshade in bamboo reeds
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Positano is a vertical village a cascade of
white houses, arches, domes, framed by
bougainvillea loggias falling from the slopes of
Monti Comune and SantAngelo into the Spiaggia
Grande, along thousands of hidden steps
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Renowned director and producer Franco Zeffirelli
owned the Villa Treville in Positano, where he
took residence over a 35-year period and hosted a
coterie of literati and stars of the stage and
screen. The Villa Treville has since been
converted into a five-star boutique hotel.
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The most famous local production is certainly
represented by Positano Fashion, a colorful sea
line full of floral prints, embellished with
coral and gems
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An angeless fashion that has made the history of
town itself and continues to dress famous
celebrities, including Liz Taylor, Michelle
Hunziker and Ivana Trump.
Piano di Sorrento
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Piano di Sorrento
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Piano di Sorrento
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The Grotta dello Smeraldo (Emerald Grotto) is
a cave, partly inundated by the sea and located
in Conca dei Marini, Italy, on the Amalfi Coast
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Conca dei Marini Grotta dello Smeraldo
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The Grotta dello Smeraldo has no natural outlet
above the waterline. The only opening to the
outside world is just below the water level.
Refracted sunlight entering the cavern through
the opening gives the water its characteristic
emerald glow during daylight hours. It was
discovered by a fisherman named Luigi Buoncore in
1932.
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Costiera Amalfitana - Washingtonia Robusta Palm
Tree
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Cape Conca and the area of the entrance to the
grotto
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Tower of Cape Conca, or White Tower, 16th
century, Conca dei Marini
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Cape Conca, with the old watch tower
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Medieval watchtower at Conca cape, Conca dei
Marini, Amalfi Coast
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Beach, Conca dei Marini
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Costiera Amalfitana Positano-Amalfi
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Text Internet Pictures Sanda Foisoreanu
Gabriela Cristescu
Internet All copyrights belong to their
respective owners Presentation Sanda
Foisoreanu
Sound Vienetenne a Positano - Brio
Peppino Sergio Bruni
2018
