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Things to see in Ravello

Every monument worth your time in Ravello, photographed, described, and matched to its tours.

All the monuments in Ravello

The landmarks and masterpieces worth planning a day around.

Villa Rufolo's tower over its flowered terraces, RavelloGardenVilla RufoloMedieval Rufolo complex, Arab-Byzantine-Norman architecture, terraced gardens, Wagner and Parsifal, Ravello FestivalVilla Rufolo was built in the thirteenth century for the Rufolo family, Ravello's merchant dynasty grown rich on trade with North Africa and the Levant, and its cloister and tower still mix Arab, Byzantine and Norman details in a way found almost nowhere else on the Amalfi Coast. By the nineteenth century the complex had fallen into decline until the Scottish botanist Francis Neville Reid bought it and laid out the terraced gardens that now step down toward the sea. Richard Wagner visited in May 1880 while composing Parsifal and reportedly found the garden he had been imagining for the opera's Klingsor already built, a connection the town celebrates still. That link led directly to the first Ravello Festival concerts, staged on the same terrace in 1953 and still running every summer, with the coastline and the Gulf of Salerno as a backdrop no concert hall can match.Plan the visit
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  2. Vesuvius and Monte Somma across the Bay of Naples at duskTorre del GrecoMount VesuviusThe 79 CE eruption, the Gran Cono crater trail, INGV monitoring, views over the Bay of Naples
  3. Procida's pastel tiers above the harbor, Terra Murata at the crownProcidaProcidaTerra Murata, the pastel harbor of Corricella, Il Postino, Italian Capital of Culture 2022
  4. Positano stacked down its ravine to the evening seaPositanoUNESCOPositanoIts stacked cliffside houses, the Amalfi Coast cultural landscape, Spiaggia Grande, its 1668 city status
  5. A Doric temple of Paestum under its umbrella pine at duskPaestumUNESCOTemples of PaestumThree Doric temples, Tomb of the Diver, Greek and Roman city walls, archaeological museum
  6. The quarter-kilometer front of the Reggia di Caserta at golden hourCasertaUNESCORoyal Palace of CasertaLuigi Vanvitelli, Royal Staircase, Royal Apartments, Court Theatre, Royal Park cascades
  7. Tufa ruins below the acropolis of Cumae, Italy's first Greek colonyCumaCumae Archaeological ParkGreek acropolis, temples of Apollo and Jupiter, Cave of the Sibyl gallery, Virgil's Aeneid
  8. The neoclassical facade of Teatro di San Carlo in evening light, NaplesNaplesTeatro di San CarloIts 1737 Bourbon foundation, oldest opera house in continuous use, horseshoe-plan auditorium, royal box
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