{"id":76893,"date":"2021-04-09T23:07:06","date_gmt":"2021-04-10T03:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/?p=76893"},"modified":"2023-03-29T10:46:29","modified_gmt":"2023-03-29T14:46:29","slug":"high-drama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/2021\/04\/high-drama\/","title":{"rendered":"High Drama"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tablethotels.com\/en\/amalfi-hotels\/hotel-santa-caterina?utm_source=agenda&amp;utm_medium=page&amp;utm_campaign=high_drama\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.prod.r53.tablethotels.com\/media\/ecs\/global\/magazine\/story-images\/20210410\/SantaCaterina.jpg\" alt=\"Hotel Santa Caterina\" width=\"970\" height=\"auto\" border=\"0\" data-gae=\"Magazine, Clicked, Image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4><em>Italy&#8217;s 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&#8217;s pure theater, and you&#8217;re welcome to play a part.<\/em><\/h4>\n<p>When you talk about the Amalfi Coast and its closest neighbors, you&#8217;re 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&#8217; painterly backdrop.<\/p>\n<p>Iconic travel destinations acquire their reputations by offering visitors the chance to live as dramatically as possible, if only for a night. They present, to those willing to make the trip, a suspenseful, riveting, rousing performance \u2014 a view of life upgraded from the everyday. The hotels and resorts of the Amalfi Coast are the storybook version of Europe. And they, as much as anything else on the continent, define the drama we all desire from our most ambitious escapes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n<div style=\"height:1px;border-top:3px double #ccc;margin-top:30px;margin-bottom:60px;display:block;clear:both\"><\/div>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Grand Hotel Excelsior Vittoria<\/h2>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">Sorrento, Italy<\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tablethotels.com\/en\/sorrento-2-hotels\/grand-hotel-excelsior-vittoria?utm_source=agenda&amp;utm_medium=page&amp;utm_campaign=high_drama\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.prod.r53.tablethotels.com\/media\/ecs\/global\/magazine\/story-images\/20210410\/ExcelsiorVittoria.jpg\" alt=\"Grand Hotel Excelsior Vittoria\" width=\"970\" height=\"auto\" border=\"0\" data-gae=\"Magazine, Clicked, Image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Grand Hotel Excelsior Vittoria benefits from a phenomenal location, right in the heart of Sorrento, high on a cliff overlooking the harbor and separated from the bustling Piazza Tasso by orange groves and acres of parkland. The hotel itself comprises three separate villas, all built between 1834 and 1880. This is a true Grand Hotel in the old style, its past guests including Wagner and Goethe, and the opera singer Enrico Caruso was a resident for a time in the twenties, his suite today remaining more or less as he left it. As if that weren&#8217;t enough, Emperor Augustus himself kept a villa here.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n<div style=\"height:1px;border-top:3px double #ccc;margin-top:30px;margin-bottom:60px;display:block;clear:both\"><\/div>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Casa Angelina<\/h2>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">Praiano, Italy<\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tablethotels.com\/en\/praiano-hotels\/casa-angelina?utm_source=agenda&amp;utm_medium=page&amp;utm_campaign=high_drama\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.prod.r53.tablethotels.com\/media\/ecs\/global\/magazine\/story-images\/20210410\/CasaAngelina.jpg\" alt=\"Casa Angelina\" width=\"970\" height=\"auto\" border=\"0\" data-gae=\"Magazine, Clicked, Image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Praiano isn\u2019t the most famous town on the Amalfi Coast, but its appeal is undeniable: it\u2019s just beyond Positano, which not only places it outside the most crowded stretch of the coast, but gives it an astonishing view of Positano itself, along with the dramatic seascapes to the west. This is where you\u2019ll find 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<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n<div style=\"height:1px;border-top:3px double #ccc;margin-top:30px;margin-bottom:60px;display:block;clear:both\"><\/div>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Hotel Villa Franca Positano<\/h2>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">Positano, Italy<\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tablethotels.com\/en\/positano-hotels\/hotel-villa-franca-positano?utm_source=agenda&amp;utm_medium=page&amp;utm_campaign=high_drama\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.prod.r53.tablethotels.com\/media\/ecs\/global\/magazine\/story-images\/20210410\/FrancaPositano.jpg\" alt=\"Hotel Villa Franca Positano\" width=\"970\" height=\"auto\" border=\"0\" data-gae=\"Magazine, Clicked, Image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ideally we\u2019d all have well-to-do Italian friends with a vacation house on the Amalfi Coast. Because while we love a good hotel, there\u2019s something about Positano \u2014 the dramatic scenery, the cinematic atmosphere, the possibility of a three-hour lunch that starts with aperitifs and ends with limoncello and cappuccino \u2014 that makes you feel like being someone\u2019s glamorous houseguest. Until that invitation arrives, there\u2019s Hotel Villa Franca Positano.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n<div style=\"height:1px;border-top:3px double #ccc;margin-top:30px;margin-bottom:60px;display:block;clear:both\"><\/div>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Hotel Santa Caterina<\/h2>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">Amalfi, Italy<\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tablethotels.com\/en\/amalfi-hotels\/hotel-santa-caterina?utm_source=agenda&amp;utm_medium=page&amp;utm_campaign=high_drama\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.prod.r53.tablethotels.com\/media\/ecs\/global\/magazine\/story-images\/20210410\/SantaCaterina.jpg\" alt=\"Hotel Santa Caterina\" width=\"970\" height=\"auto\" border=\"0\" data-gae=\"Magazine, Clicked, Image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the rare traditional-style hotel that really gets us going, but the Santa Caterina is an absolute classic. Family-owned for the better part of a century, it sits high on a hillside facing the sea and the town of Amalfi \u2014 guests ride an elevator down to the hotel\u2019s private beach, for the ultimate storybook Italian-coast experience. 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.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n<div style=\"height:1px;border-top:3px double #ccc;margin-top:30px;margin-bottom:60px;display:block;clear:both\"><\/div>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">La Minervetta<\/h2>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">Sorrento, Italy<\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tablethotels.com\/en\/sorrento-2-hotels\/la-minervetta?utm_source=agenda&amp;utm_medium=page&amp;utm_campaign=high_drama\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.prod.r53.tablethotels.com\/media\/ecs\/global\/magazine\/story-images\/20210410\/LaMinervetta.jpg\" alt=\"La Minervetta\" width=\"970\" height=\"auto\" border=\"0\" data-gae=\"Magazine, Clicked, Image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Contemporary design on the Amalfi coast \u2014 that alone makes La Minervetta worth noting. And we\u2019re not using \u201ccontemporary\u201d as a euphemism, either. Rather than monochrome and minimal, La Minervetta\u2019s twelve guest rooms are bright and sunny \u2014 literally, as they\u2019re open to the light, with views through full-length windows over Sorrento, the Bay of Naples and Mount Vesuvius, and figuratively as well, clean-lined and decked out in vivid tones, anywhere from lime green and turquoise to simple, almost Nordic primary colors.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n<div style=\"height:1px;border-top:3px double #ccc;margin-top:30px;margin-bottom:60px;display:block;clear:both\"><\/div>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Hotel Punta Tragara<\/h2>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">Capri, Italy<\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tablethotels.com\/en\/capri-hotels\/hotel-punta-tragara?utm_source=agenda&amp;utm_medium=page&amp;utm_campaign=high_drama\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.prod.r53.tablethotels.com\/media\/ecs\/global\/magazine\/story-images\/20210410\/PuntaTragara.jpg\" alt=\"Hotel Punta Tragara\" width=\"970\" height=\"auto\" border=\"0\" data-gae=\"Magazine, Clicked, Image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here, on the edge of the town of Capri, barely fifteen minutes\u2019 walk from the city center, is a villa clinging to the side of the cliff, a villa which just happens to have been subject to some design work by a man named Le Corbusier. The forty-four rooms are decorated in a classic twentieth-century style, to match the building\u2019s early modernism \u2014 bright colors play off monochrome backgrounds, and the Mediterranean sun seeps into every corner.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n<div style=\"height:1px;border-top:3px double #ccc;margin-top:30px;margin-bottom:60px;display:block;clear:both\"><\/div>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Grand Hotel Convento di Amalfi<\/h2>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">Amalfi, Italy<\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tablethotels.com\/en\/amalfi-hotels\/grand-hotel-convento-di-amalfi?utm_source=agenda&amp;utm_medium=page&amp;utm_campaign=high_drama\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.prod.r53.tablethotels.com\/media\/ecs\/global\/magazine\/story-images\/20210410\/ConventoDiAmalfi.jpg\" alt=\"Grand Hotel Convento di Amalfi\" width=\"970\" height=\"auto\" border=\"0\" data-gae=\"Magazine, Clicked, Image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>More and more often, as boutique hotels are made from ancient convents and monasteries in Europe\u2019s most photogenic places, it becomes apparent that the monks and the nuns had it pretty good. If the Grand Hotel Convento di Amalfi is any indication, it very well might have been worth taking holy orders just for the views \u2014 the way this old convent hangs on the cliffside, you\u2019d think some extremely twelfth-century property developers had planned this place with the 21st-century hotel market in mind.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n<div style=\"height:1px;border-top:3px double #ccc;margin-top:30px;margin-bottom:60px;display:block;clear:both\"><\/div>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Il San Pietro di Positano<\/h2>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">Positano, Italy<\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tablethotels.com\/en\/positano-hotels\/il-san-pietro-di-positano?utm_source=agenda&amp;utm_medium=page&amp;utm_campaign=high_drama\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.prod.r53.tablethotels.com\/media\/ecs\/global\/magazine\/story-images\/20210410\/PietroDiPositano.jpg\" alt=\"Il San Pietro di Positano\" width=\"970\" height=\"auto\" border=\"0\" data-gae=\"Magazine, Clicked, Image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Il San Pietro may just be the best hotel on the Amalfi Coast, and is a strong contender for any global list. A small 17th-century chapel devoted to San Pietro marks the hotel entrance, and the rest of the property hangs on the cliffside below, each level descending the face like a staircase, offering unparalleled views of the sea from every room and every terrace. The hotel is built just one room deep, and there are no inferior views; each room hugs the cliff at its back side and opens onto a private terrace at the front.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n<div style=\"height:1px;border-top:3px double #ccc;margin-top:30px;margin-bottom:60px;display:block;clear:both\"><\/div>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Le Sirenuse<\/h2>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">Positano, Italy<\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tablethotels.com\/en\/positano-hotels\/le-sirenuse?utm_source=agenda&amp;utm_medium=page&amp;utm_campaign=high_drama\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.prod.r53.tablethotels.com\/media\/ecs\/global\/magazine\/story-images\/20210410\/LeSirenuse.jpg\" alt=\"Le Sirenuse\" width=\"970\" height=\"auto\" border=\"0\" data-gae=\"Magazine, Clicked, Image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>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, who still run the hotel. Despite its location, Le Sirenuse is quiet, isolated from the local traffic and apparently from most tourists. Nonetheless, we love the fact that it\u2019s part of Positano, a town that\u2019s constructed like an amphitheater \u2014 houses literally cut into the cliff, each one with an unobstructed view over the next one, and stairs instead of streets. Inside, it\u2019s simple and lovely, with an authenticity so unpretentious it\u2019s almost careless.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n<div style=\"height:1px;border-top:3px double #ccc;margin-top:30px;margin-bottom:60px;display:block;clear:both\"><\/div>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Caruso<\/h2>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">Ravello, Italy<\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tablethotels.com\/en\/ravello-hotels\/caruso-a-belmond-hotel-amalfi-coast?utm_source=agenda&amp;utm_medium=page&amp;utm_campaign=high_drama\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.prod.r53.tablethotels.com\/media\/ecs\/global\/magazine\/story-images\/20210410\/Caruso.jpg\" alt=\"Caruso\" width=\"970\" height=\"auto\" border=\"0\" data-gae=\"Magazine, Clicked, Image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>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 \u2014 it\u2019s still got the classic looks (and old-world service) that made it a favorite in the first place.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n<div style=\"height:1px;border-top:3px double #ccc;margin-top:30px;margin-bottom:60px;display:block;clear:both\"><\/div>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Villa Marina Capri<\/h2>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">Capri, Italy<\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tablethotels.com\/en\/capri-hotels\/villa-marina-capri?utm_source=agenda&amp;utm_medium=page&amp;utm_campaign=high_drama\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.prod.r53.tablethotels.com\/media\/ecs\/global\/magazine\/story-images\/20210410\/VillaMarinaCapri.jpg\" alt=\"Villa Marina Capri\" width=\"970\" height=\"auto\" border=\"0\" data-gae=\"Magazine, Clicked, Image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not so very long ago the glamorous life on Capri was all about seizing the high ground, whether on the hilltop of Capri village or in the equally lofty Anacapri. But there\u2019s new life down by the marina. Partway up the hill, looking out over the ferry port across the Bay of Naples, is the Villa Marina Capri, a classic 19th-century villa that\u2019s been thoroughly renovated, converted into an intimate little 22-room contemporary-luxury boutique hotel.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n<div style=\"height:1px;border-top:3px double #ccc;margin-top:30px;margin-bottom:60px;display:block;clear:both\"><\/div>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">JK Place Capri<\/h2>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">Capri, Italy<\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tablethotels.com\/en\/capri-hotels\/jk-place-capri?utm_source=agenda&amp;utm_medium=page&amp;utm_campaign=high_drama\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.prod.r53.tablethotels.com\/media\/ecs\/global\/magazine\/story-images\/20210410\/JKCapri.jpg\" alt=\"JK Place Capri\" width=\"970\" height=\"auto\" border=\"0\" data-gae=\"Magazine, Clicked, Image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>JK Place is one of the only hotels in Capri that\u2019s right on the ocean, and it could hardly be more central \u2014 it\u2019s in the Roman old town, on a cliff overlooking the harbor. That right there pretty much sums up the approach: no expense spared, no corners cut, and nothing out of place. Just a phenomenal location \u2014 it\u2019s hard to do better than the Amalfi \u2014 and a first-class hotel from which to take it all in.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n<div style=\"height:1px;border-top:3px double #ccc;margin-top:30px;margin-bottom:60px;display:block;clear:both\"><\/div>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Relais Blu<\/h2>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">Massa Lubrense, Italy<\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tablethotels.com\/en\/massa-lubrense-hotels\/relais-blu?utm_source=agenda&amp;utm_medium=page&amp;utm_campaign=high_drama\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.prod.r53.tablethotels.com\/media\/ecs\/global\/magazine\/story-images\/20210410\/RelaisBlu.jpg\" alt=\"Relais Blu\" width=\"970\" height=\"auto\" border=\"0\" data-gae=\"Magazine, Clicked, Image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The icy color palettes and minimalist furniture that were once urban-boutique staples take on a whole new meaning outside the bright-lights, big-city context. Transplant that crisp look to an olive and pine grove at the tip of the Sorrentine Peninsula, for example, and you\u2019ve got a fresh take on Mediterranean style. This kind of modernism really benefits from the warming contrast of a healthy dose of old-world seaside glamour, and the 11-room Relais Blu is running a master class in this particular fusion.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n<div style=\"height:1px;border-top:3px double #ccc;margin-top:30px;margin-bottom:60px;display:block;clear:both\"><\/div>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Capri Tiberio Palace<\/h2>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">Capri, Italy<\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tablethotels.com\/en\/capri-hotels\/capri-tiberio-palace?utm_source=agenda&amp;utm_medium=page&amp;utm_campaign=high_drama\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.prod.r53.tablethotels.com\/media\/ecs\/global\/magazine\/story-images\/20210410\/CapriTiberio.jpg\" alt=\"Capri Tiberio Palace\" width=\"970\" height=\"auto\" border=\"0\" data-gae=\"Magazine, Clicked, Image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tiberio Palace embodies the kind of effortless mod-Mediterranean hospitality that takes its cues from the suave cool of sixties cinema. Aided by a palette of soft creams, the environment announces itself with the lightest of touches, like a pair of white linen pants. The 46 guestrooms don\u2019t lay the d\u00e9cor on very thick \u2014 you\u2019ll find an art object here, a black-and-white photo there \u2014 because the view does all the heavy lifting. The hotel is perched just high enough to provide a good look at the island\u2019s greenery, dotted with villas cascading down to the sea.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n<div style=\"height:1px;border-top:3px double #ccc;margin-top:30px;margin-bottom:60px;display:block;clear:both\"><\/div>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Bellevue Syrene 1820<\/h2>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">Sorrento, Italy<\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tablethotels.com\/en\/sorrento-2-hotels\/bellevue-syrene-1820?utm_source=agenda&amp;utm_medium=page&amp;utm_campaign=high_drama\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.prod.r53.tablethotels.com\/media\/ecs\/global\/magazine\/story-images\/20210410\/BellevueSyrene1820.jpg\" alt=\"Bellevue Syrene 1820\" width=\"970\" height=\"auto\" border=\"0\" data-gae=\"Magazine, Clicked, Image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This classic five-star hotel has been an Italian favorite since its opening in 1820, and it\u2019s easy to see why: this cliffside villa looks out over the waterfront and the Bay of Naples from one of Sorrento\u2019s most privileged positions. To this day the Bellevue Syrene drips with 19th-century elegance, scarcely diminished by the recent renovations \u2014 while some of the furnishings and d\u00e9cor have been modernized, the atmosphere as a whole is as regal as ever.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n<div style=\"height:1px;border-top:3px double #ccc;margin-top:30px;margin-bottom:60px;display:block;clear:both\"><\/div>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Art Hotel Villa Fiorella<\/h2>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">Sorrento, Italy<\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tablethotels.com\/en\/sorrento-2-hotels\/art-hotel-villa-fiorella?utm_source=agenda&amp;utm_medium=page&amp;utm_campaign=high_drama\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.prod.r53.tablethotels.com\/media\/ecs\/global\/magazine\/story-images\/20210410\/VillaFiorella.jpg\" alt=\"Art Hotel Villa Fiorella\" width=\"970\" height=\"auto\" border=\"0\" data-gae=\"Magazine, Clicked, Image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Massa Lubrense is perhaps best known as a stop on the way to the Amalfi Coast, or a place to catch a boat across the Gulf of Naples to the island of Capri. But it\u2019s a worthy destination in its own right. It\u2019s here, according to Greek legend, that sirens first lured sailors to crash into the rocky shore. Looking down at the coastline from Art Hotel Villa Fiorella, a quiet boutique hotel set in an olive grove high over the water, it\u2019s easy to believe in the myth.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n<div style=\"height:1px;border-top:3px double #ccc;margin-top:30px;margin-bottom:60px;display:block;clear:both\"><\/div>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Italy&#8217;s Amalfi Coast is storybook Europe. Here, historic houses and gravity-defying villas crawl down cliffs and meet cute with romantic coves and secret grottos in the sea below. 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