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The world-famous Amalfi Coast bewitches with its astounding beauty and gripping
geology: coastal mountains plunge into crystal-blue sea in a prime-time vertical scene of
precipitous crags, sun-bleached villages and lush forest. While some may argue that the
Italy's most beautiful coast is Liguria's Cinque Terre or Calabria's Costa Viola, it was the
Amalfi Coast that prompted American writer John Steinbeck to describe it as a 'dream
place that isn't quite real when you are there and beckoningly real after you have gone'.
