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Monastero Santa Rosa \u2014 Conca dei Marini, Italy<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Italy\u2019s Amalfi Coast is storybook Europe. Here, historic hotels crawl down cliffs and meet cute with romantic coves and secret grottos in the sea below. It\u2019s pure theater. Play a part.<\/em><\/h4>\n

When you talk about the Amalfi Coast and its closest neighbors, you\u2019re in benchmark territory \u2014 in the world of picturesque, cliff-hugging village jewels, this stretch of Italian waterfront is legendary, and for good reason. The hospitality dials itself up accordingly: classically proportioned villas and palatial summer retreats stake their stunning claims in lush tiers, peacocking in that good-natured Italian way with an infinity pool here, a candlelit terrace there, and everywhere the Tyrrhenian waters\u2019 painterly backdrop.<\/p>\n

Iconic travel destinations acquire their reputations by offering visitors the chance to live life more dramatically than usual. The hotels and resorts of the Amalfi Coast in particular play their part, putting on one hell of a performance: suspenseful, riveting, rousing. This is storybook Europe in full stereo. Check out all the hotels we recommend in and around the Amalfi coast<\/a>, and see fifteen of our favorites below.
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Il San Pietro di Positano<\/a><\/h2>\n
Positano, Italy<\/h5>\n

\"Il<\/a><\/p>\n

A small 17th-century chapel devoted to San Pietro marks the entrance of hotel Il San Pietro di Positano, and the rest of the property hangs on the cliffside below, each level descending the face like a staircase \u2014 offering unparalleled views of the sea from every room and every terrace. The hotel is built just one room deep; each room hugs the cliff at its back side and opens onto a private terrace at the front.<\/p>\n

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Hotel Poseidon<\/a><\/h2>\n
Positano, Italy<\/h5>\n

\"Hotel<\/a><\/p>\n

Originally constructed as a private villa, the Hotel Poseidon opened its doors to the public in 1955, and is still going strong as a member of Positano\u2019s small-but-elite fraternity of classic luxury hotels. It\u2019s set halfway up Positano\u2019s curving slope, on the sunrise-facing side, giving it a spectacular view of the town and the sea, as well as easy enough access to the beach.<\/p>\n

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Hotel Villa Cimbrone<\/a><\/h2>\n
Ravello, Italy<\/h5>\n

\"Hotel<\/a><\/p>\n

The clifftop village of Ravello, as the old saying goes, is closer to heaven than the sea. And while the views over the Amalfi Coast are fantastic from anywhere in town, they\u2019re especially astonishing from the 11th-century Hotel Villa Cimbrone. Its famous Terrazza dell\u2019Infinito, or Terrace of Infinity, overlooks the Bay of Sorrento, as do many of the luxury hotel\u2019s rooms and suites.<\/p>\n

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Le Sirenuse<\/a><\/h2>\n
Positano, Italy<\/h5>\n

\"Le<\/a><\/p>\n

Le Sirenuse is remarkably un-hotel-like. For two hundred and fifty years it was the summer house of the noble Neapolitan family Marchese Sersale. Inside, it is simple and lovely, with an authenticity so unpretentious it is almost careless. The floors are glazed tile, the windows are delicately scalloped, and the pale-hued bedrooms have plain white beds and antiques that have been lovingly compiled since the family first moved here.<\/p>\n

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Hotel Santa Caterina<\/a><\/h2>\n
Amalfi, Italy<\/h5>\n

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Santa Caterina is the real deal: the grounds are all terraces, olive groves and lemon orchards, with the kind of jaw-dropping views that make the Amalfi one of the world\u2019s most special places. The look of the building, and of the interiors, is charmingly old-fashioned; there\u2019s no attempted design-boutique guff here, and it comes off timeless rather than dated.<\/p>\n

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Monastero Santa Rosa<\/a><\/h2>\n
Conca dei Marini, Italy<\/h5>\n

\"Monastero<\/a><\/p>\n

A renovated 17th-century monastery is the stuff glamorously reclusive holidays are made of \u2014 especially in a destination as popular as the Amalfi Coast. The atmosphere of seclusion is supplied by the building and the site, while the Italian-style dolce vita is a result of the fact that the present-day Monastero Santa Rosa Hotel & Spa is focused not on renouncing pleasure, but embracing it.<\/p>\n

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Hotel Miramalfi<\/a><\/h2>\n
Amalfi, Italy<\/h5>\n

\"Hotel<\/a><\/p>\n

It\u2019s an age-old question whether it\u2019s preferable to stay on the beach or on the hill overlooking it. Francesco Mansi chose the latter when he selected Hotel Miramalfi\u2019s clifftside location in the 1950s; instead of opening his hotel in the pretty seaside village, he opted for a property with postcard-like vistas of Amalfi and the Tyrrhenian Sea. The hotel\u2019s design makes the most of its position.<\/p>\n

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Anantara Convento di Amalfi Grand Hotel<\/a><\/h2>\n
Amalfi, Italy<\/h5>\n

\"Anantara<\/a><\/p>\n

This remarkable old convent, with its extraordinary views and Arab-influenced architecture, is now open to the traveling public as Anantara Convento di Amalfi. A bit of whitewashing in the interiors just serves to underscore the rooms\u2019 ancient lines, and helps make the most of the plentiful sunshine. Meanwhile some judicious modern interventions make the rooms and suites as comfortable as they are visually striking.<\/p>\n

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Villa Treville<\/a><\/h2>\n
Positano, Italy<\/h5>\n

\"Villa<\/a><\/p>\n

Villa Treville isn\u2019t a hotel so much as Positano\u2019s most storied stage set. Once Franco Zeffirelli\u2019s summer residence, it still bears the director\u2019s touch: art, curios, even fragments of opera sets, layered across four villas that tumble down to the sea. The gardens are threaded with secret terraces, pools, and pathways, the kind of spaces where Maria Callas or Leonard Bernstein once escaped the crowds below.<\/p>\n

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Hotel Le Agavi<\/a><\/h2>\n
Positano, Italy<\/h5>\n

\"Hotel<\/a><\/p>\n

Hotel Le Agavi, like much else in this vertiginous Amalfi Coast town, clings to the cliffside above the bay, its outdoor spaces occupying a cascade of terraces at a dizzying multitude of levels. Every room in the house has a killer view from a furnished balcony, is crisply decorated in blues and whites, and is outfitted with luxury-hotel details, both high-tech and low. <\/p>\n

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Palazzo Pascal<\/a><\/h2>\n
Scala, Italy<\/h5>\n

\"Palazzo<\/a><\/p>\n

The tiny hilltop hamlet of Minuta looks out over the same Tyrrhenian Sea, from similarly lofty mountainside perches, as Positano or Amalfi. It\u2019s here that the Palazzo Pascal has stood since the 11th century, first as an aristocratic residence and now as a luxurious but low-key and thoroughly tranquil seven-suite boutique hotel, owned and operated by a creative family with exquisite taste in curation and collection.<\/p>\n

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Borgo Santandrea<\/a><\/h2>\n
Amalfi, Italy<\/h5>\n

\"Borgo<\/a><\/p>\n

It takes a fine hotel to stand out amid the legends of the Amalfi Coast, but the ultra-chic, ultra-luxe Borgo Santandrea seems up to the task. It\u2019s a Sixties modernist structure, thoroughly renovated under the direction of architect Rino Gambardella, and it\u2019s full of classic mid-century furniture from the owner\u2019s private collection, all reupholstered in Italian-made fabrics. Virtually everything else is new, but all feels perfectly at home.<\/p>\n

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Hotel Villa Franca Positano<\/a><\/h2>\n
Positano, Italy<\/h5>\n

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Hotel Villa Franca was a private home until the family turned it into a boutique hotel that combines guesthouse coziness with stylish designer furniture \u2014 and extras like its rooftop pool, its expansive spa, and its two fine restaurants push it over the top into luxury-hotel territory. Like every other building in the heart of old Positano, the villa is built right into the steep cliffside.<\/p>\n

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Caruso, A Belmond Hotel<\/a><\/h2>\n
Ravello, Italy<\/h5>\n

\"Caruso,<\/a><\/p>\n

The Caruso has long been one of the Amalfi\u2019s highlights. High on a cliffside in Ravello, the view of the coast from its terrace has been described as the most beautiful in the world by no less an authority than Gore Vidal. Rooms wind and wend through the building, each different, all sumptuously furnished and most with views that range from rather good to jaw-dropping. It\u2019s been renovated, yes, but hardly modernized.<\/p>\n

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Casa Angelina<\/a><\/h2>\n
Praiano, Italy<\/h5>\n

\"Casa<\/a><\/p>\n

Praiano isn\u2019t the most famous town on the Amalfi Coast, but its appeal is undeniable: it has astonishing views of Positano itself, along with the dramatic seascapes to the west. It also has Casa Angelina, a rare hotel that makes a virtue of modern architecture and design even in these most traditional environs \u2014 and, in the process, establishes a tone of understated luxury that few hotels anywhere can match.<\/p>\n

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