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Positano, situated in Campania on Italy's Amalfi Coast (Costiera Amalfitana), is a small and nearly vertical town. While prosperous many centuries ago, it now lives on as a unique tourist destination, favored by Americans and Europeans, celebrities, and day-trippers who take the ferry from Naples..A through highway, Strada Statale Amalfitana, also known as Via Guglielmo Marconi, separates the town into two parts, while a one-way loop called Viale Pasitea serves the lower part (sub Positano). Any other "via" or "viale" really is a walkway, narrow, mostly with steps. Many steps...This series spotlights aspects of a stay in a holiday villa whose name translates to "The Garden." The property, rumored to have once been owned by Vittorio de Sica, comprises multiple terraces. It is indeed both a garden, and an arboretum. The villa overlooks the village, the sea, and is backed by craggy cliffs..

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Positano, situated in Campania on Italy's Amalfi Coast (Costiera Amalfitana), is a small and nearly vertical town. While prosperous many centuries ago, it now lives on as a unique tourist destination, favored by Americans and Europeans, celebrities, and day-trippers who take the ferry from Naples..A through highway, Strada Statale Amalfitana, also known as Via Guglielmo Marconi, separates the town into two parts, while a one-way loop called Viale Pasitea serves the lower part (sub Positano). Any other "via" or "viale" really is a walkway, narrow, mostly with steps. Many steps...This series spotlights aspects of a stay in a holiday villa whose name translates to "The Garden." The property, rumored to have once been owned by Vittorio de Sica, comprises multiple terraces. It is indeed both a garden, and an arboretum. The villa overlooks the village, the sea, and is backed by craggy cliffs..