Atrani and the Amalfitani Coast
Amalfitani Coast
The Amalfitani Coast, or simply the Amalfi Coast, is a beautiful and rugged coastline with small waterfront towns beneath towering cliffs. It runs for about fifty kilometers west from Salerno to the tip of the Peninsola Sorrentina. A narrow twisting road, little more than a single lane wide for much of its length, links the towns along this coast.
Boats also run along the coast stopping at many of the towns, from Salerno in the east to beyond the peninsula to Capri in the west.
Portion of aeronautical chart F-2C, from the Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection at the University of Texas at Austin.
Start❯ Traveling to the Amalfitani Coast
Where Next In Italy?
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In the late 1990s into the early 2000s I worked on a project to
scan cuneiform tablets
to archive and share 3-D data sets,
providing enhanced visualization to assist reading them.
I worked on the project with Gordon Young,
at the time Purdue University's only professor
of archaeology.
Gordon was really smart,
he could read both Akkadian and Sumerian,
and at least some of other ancient languages
written in the cuneiform script.
He told me to go to Italy,
"The further south, the better."
Gordon was right.
Yes, you will very likely arrive in Rome,
but Italy has domestic flights and a fantastic train system
that runs overnight sleepers all the way to
Palermo and Syracuse, near the western and southern corners
of Sicily.
So, these pages are grouped into a south-first order,
as they should be.