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The Amalfi Coast: Ravello and Positano

According to legend, Positano was founded in the twelfth century after some sailors witnessed a miracle along its coast.  Since then, the city has developed vertically, along the steep slopes of cliffs dropping straight to the sea. Not far from here, one finds Amalfi, founded as a vacation spot by the Romans and later becoming one of the four marine republics.