The best views of the coast can be had inland from Amalfi in RAVELLO : another renowned spot, "closer to the sky than the seashore", wrote André Gide - with some justification. Ravello was also an independent republic for a while, and for a time an outpost of the Amalfi city-state; now it's not much more than a large village, but its unrivalled location, spread across the top of one of the coast's mountains, 335m up, makes it more than worth the thirty-minute bus ri... [More]