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Positano, Amalfi Coast
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Italy's most celebrated coastline is a bewitching blend of superlative beauty and grip-
ping geology: coastal mountains plunge into milky blue sea in a prime-time vertical scene
of precipitous crags, sun-bleached villages and lush forests. While some may argue that the
peninsula's most beautiful coast is Liguria's Cinque Terre or Calabria's Costa Viola, it was
the Amalfi Coast (
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that American writer John Steinbeck described as a 'dream
place that isn't quite real when you are there and...beckoningly real after you have gone'.
