Things to do
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Ravello Cathedral
An eleventh-century church on the main square, holding two carved marble pulpits and a set of bronze doors cast in Constantinople. The small museum in the crypt is included.
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Auditorium Oscar Niemeyer
A white concrete wave with a single round window, finished in 2010 to a design Niemeyer completed in his nineties. It sits in deliberate argument with everything around it and is worth seeing for that alone.
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Caruso, A Belmond Hotel
An eleventh-century palace on the highest terrace in Ravello, with an infinity pool that appears to spill into the sea three hundred metres below. Its garden survives from the original villa.
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Palazzo Avino
A twelfth-century patrician villa in pink stucco on Ravello's main lane, with a beach club reached by shuttle far below. The terrace bar is the standard place to watch the light go off the gulf.
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Villa Cimbrone
The Terrace of Infinity at the end of the garden is a balustrade lined with marble busts and open sea on three sides, and it is the single most photographed viewpoint on the coast. The walk out from Ravello's square takes about fifteen minutes on lanes.
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Villa Rufolo
A thirteenth-century merchant's house with a Moorish cloister and terraced gardens looking straight down the Gulf of Salerno. Wagner found the setting for Klingsor's garden here, and the summer concert festival still stages performances on a platform over the drop.