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Arriving in Amalfi we immediately board a local bus for the 15 minute ride to Ravello. Here all of the beauty and
tranquility of this patrician way of life of the 12th century presents itself. Here Boccaccio was a guest of the Rufolo
Family and writes of them in the Decameron. Villa Rufolo the inspiration for Richard Wagner to complete his
"Parsifal". The Gardens of Klingsor. From here to Villa Cimbrone and its dramatic panoramas stretching out to the sea and the Monti Lattari. A visit to the Belvedere and Cathedral. Down to Amalfi for lunch in a lemon grove prepared exclusively for us. After lunch an in depth visit to the mysteries of the byways of Amalfi and its world famous Cathedral. Amalfi the first of the Maritime Republics, its history inexorably linked to the sea and commerce with Byzantium and the Arab Federation of a thousand years ago.
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