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Moorish-style hillside village on the southern strip of the Amalfi Drive,
Positano opens onto the Tyrrhenian Sea with its legendary (now privately
owned) Sirenuse Islands, Homer's siren islands in the Odyssey, which
form the mini-archipelago of Li Galli. Once, Positano was part
of the powerful Republic of the Amalfis, a rival of Venice as a sea power in
the 10th century. It's said that the town was "discovered" after World War
II when Gen. Mark Clark stationed troops in nearby Salerno. Like many
European resorts, it began as a sleepy fishing village that was visited by
painters and writers (Paul Klee, Tennessee Williams) and then taken over by
visitors in search of bohemy, until a full-scale tourism industry was born. |
