General information
Province: Salerno

Among the Lattari Mountains and mended by the winds of the North, the city of Positano enjoys of an enviable position that a mild and dry climate furnishes it. The town owes its fortune to the great hospitality of its inhabitants and the attainable beaches through the typical steps "scalinatelle", as well as to the numerous hotel services that it offers together with the manifold points sale of its creations of fashion "Positano Sea fashion". In this splendid climate flutter the legends of the sirens, and the atmosphere is so magic to be made Positano privileged destination for artists of the whole world.

Historical outlines
Of probable Phoenician foundation, it was visited then by the Greek. The Romans built subsequently a great and rich patrician villa, now buried under the foundations of the Assumption Church. After the fall of the Roman empire, Positano was annexed to the Republic of Amalfi, and it crossed a splendid period thanks to the maritime commerce with the rest of the Mediterranean. The dominations, Angioina and Aragonese then, threw  more than once dark shades on the city. In these occasions the positanesis erected for defending themselves three watch towers, still existing. In 1700 a new florid period left as testimony numerous villas in Baroque style, and up to the unity of Italy, for the city of Positano, it was a growth and a to expand itself continuously. With the national unification Positano lost a lot than it had conquered. With the world wars then it paid a high price in terms of human lifes and economically too, until, after the conflicts, the hospitality positanese made breeze in the heart of the tourists of the whole world. Today Positano is considered the "gem of the divine coastline" because of the saints and of the martyrs that have passed long part of their life in this attractive town.

To visit
La Collegiata di Santa Maria Assunta, Chiesa Nuova, Chiesa di S. Giacomo, Chiesa di S. Margherita.