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Ravello
275km
(171 miles) SE of Rome, 66km (41
miles) SE of Naples, 29km (18
miles) W of Salerno
Ravello
is one of the loveliest resorts
along the Amalfi Drive. It has
attracted artists, writers, and
celebrities for years (Richard
Wagner, Greta Garbo, André Gide,
and even D. H. Lawrence, who wrote
Lady Chatterley's Lover
here). Ravello's reigning
celebrity at the moment is Gore
Vidal, who purchased a villa here
as a writing retreat. William
Styron set his novel Set This
House on Fire here. Boccaccio
dedicated part of the Decameron
to Ravello, and John Huston used
it as a location for his film Beat
the Devil, with Bogie.
The
sleepy village seems to hang 335m
(1,100 ft.) up, between the
Tyrrhenian Sea and some celestial
orbit. You approach from Amalfi,
6km (3 3/4 miles) southwest, by a
wickedly curving road cutting
through the villa- and vine-draped
hills that hem in the Valley of
the Dragon.
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