Use Naples as your base for Positano, Amalfi, and Ravello: buses, ferries, and the routes that beat the traffic.
Positano • Amalfi • Ravello • The Ferry Beats the Bus
Explore → Get Early AccessSeasonal boats from Naples; or train to Sorrento then the coast bus
Two towns done well beats four done breathless
Ferries run and the coast is open for business
Ravello above for the quiet and the views
An hour from the city, the coast road begins its theater — Positano stacked like a pastel amphitheater, Amalfi's cathedral stairs, Ravello's gardens in the sky. Doing it from Naples means you can day-trip the icons or slow-travel the whole ribbon.
These fishing towns were once the maritime republic of Amalfi, whose navigation code ruled Mediterranean shipping; earthquakes and Pisan raids reduced the republic, leaving beauty where power had been.
The SS163 coast road — 'the road of a thousand bends' — was carved in the 1850s and remains the drive of a lifetime or the bus ride of white knuckles, depending on your seat. Ferries from Naples turn the same journey into pure scenery.
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