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Self-catering villas and apartments on the Amalfi Coast with pool, access to the sea and air conditioning. Amalfi Vacation owns and manages all the Amalfi Coast villas shown on the website. We are specialists in luxury villas and self-catering apartments...
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Situated on the last bend of Amalfi's promenade and beach, this hotel is on four levels. Bright and Mediterranean in style, the Marina Riviera is a converted old noble villa. All rooms are spacious & tastefully furnished, and have open windows or balconies...
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Perched to the rocky spur and surrounded by a park of bright colored bougainvillea in bloom and scented lemon trees, Villa Lara is an aristocratic residence of the late XIX century, belonged to Baron Pierre Beauchamp. It is located in the very heart of...
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Popular with artists, the breathtaking Amalfi Coast is undoubtedly Italy's most renowned stretch of coastline. Here, the sheer drop of rugged cliffs and ravines, terraces of orange and lemon groves, walnut and almond trees, offer unrivalled panoramas...
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The Hotel Bellevue is a beautiful Mediterranean-style property, totally refurbished in 2007, surrounded by warm colored geranium and bougainvilleas, lush Mediterranean vegetation and lemon groves. It is located along the scenic "Strada Statale Amalfitana"...
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Rocky Chapel of st. Michele Arcangelo
It is a typical rocky settlement of the Amalfi Coast and it is a testimony of the hermitical and ascetical Christianity of the first centuries.
This Rocky Chapel goes probably back to the period between the VIII and the XII century (even if some historians believe that it has been constructed in the V century).
The façade is characterized by two archways and it consists of two naves, whose vaults follow the pace of the rock; the cross vaults stand on two columns, one of which is very valuable (the other one is a modern reconstruction).
It is in Gothic style with Romanesque elements.
There is a pagan and frescoed necropolis inside with three important funeral urns (I-II century P.C.) and a cemetery area on the external left side with some sarcophaguses.
During the XVI century the Rocky Church of St. Michele Arcangelo was discarded as place of worship "ob humiditate et pudicitia" (due to humidity and demureness).