Ravello è una delle cittadine più belle della costiera. Grazie alla sua
posizione privilegiata in alto si può ammirare un paesaggio meraviglioso
e il paese è veramente tenuto bene e curato.
Non limitatevi a godere solo del fantastico paesaggio, perché c'è tanto
da vedere: Villa Rufolo, Villa Cimbrone, il Duomo e tante altre Chiese
sono i luoghi da non perdere durante una visita in città.
"Nestled against the steep slope of a cliff along the spectacular Amalfi Coast, the ancient town of Ravello included in the province of Salerno. Because, in addition to magnificent scenery offered by the medieval streets of the city and the beautiful landscapes that form the backdrop, Ravello is always motivated by intense cultural activity, boasting a calendar of
events extraordinarily rich, whose climax is, of course, the prestigious Ravello Festival,
the multifaceted exhibition that animates the historic sites of the city for almost
the entire year.
Ravello enchants first of all for
the exceptional beauty of the landscape: the terraces overlooking the cliff overlooking the
gardens facing the cliff and the deep green and transparent,
villas and monuments.
Located in Bishop's Square, next to the Cathedral, stands
the century Villa Rufolo, whose tower still seems to
look carefully throughout the
city. Built on behalf of the rich family of Rufolo, traders at
the time known and powerful enough
to be mentioned in the Decameron,
the building passed successively passed
from hand to hand until it was
sold to the
nineteenth century Scottish nobleman Francis Neville, who worked restoration, making it as
still seen. The
villa revealed in the architectural
elements of several strong
influence of Arab culture, particularly
in the important Moorish cloister structured with double loggia and portico acute
arch, adorned with graceful carved decorations, and raised courtyard. The greatest
wonder of Villa Rufolo
are blooming gardens, favorite place of Richard Wagner, where today, in
the flowering terraces and steep
towards the blue sea of the Amalfi Coast and the Gulf of Salerno, the Wagner Festival is celebrated in memory
to the great German musician ,
one of the initiatives that has made
Ravello the "City of
Music" par excellence.
Another beautiful and famous building
in Ravello is Villa
Cimbrone, built on a rock overlooking the Gulf of Salerno, in the
place where once stood a Roman villa,
later converted farmhouse in agriculture. It is
a building designed and rebuilt for
double hand, Italian and English,
the manufacturer's Nicola Mansi and the English lord William Beckett,
who magically transformed the house into ruin in
a sort of garden of wonders, with a magnificent interplay between the rigor of the Italian style and the lush setting of an English
nobleman, a passion for botany. The
result, charming and strongly suggestive, is a mix of local and
ethnic styles, a meeting point between
the old villa and the gallery of
antiques, almost a diary of an explorer transformed
into a dwelling. The large grounds
of the villa, in particular, is a labyrinth of Gothic
and classical, including statues,
temples, bridges, grottos and fountains
to reach the fantastic Belvedere of Infinity, a
huge roof terrace facing the sublime
view the open sea of the Gulf of Salerno and the Amalfi Coast, a
place much loved by the writer
Gore Vidal. Today
the villa is used to host public and private events."
La bella Ravello, una terrazza sull'infinito
Video, title, link & below text by:
Maurizio Capriati
Uno dei luoghi piu incantevoli del pianeta terra!
