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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 (The Cocks). 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.
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