Ravello, the most enchanting terrace worldwide.
 Thanks to the Ravello International Music Festival (Festival Internazionale di Musica di Ravello), Ravello has become famous all over the world. Ravello is a very quiet and chic town and from the terraces of Villa Rufolo and Villa Cimbone, visitors can admire a wonderful panorama that once enchanted Richard Wagner and the great Greta Garbo. Ravello had very prosperous trades during the XI and XII centuries, afterwards it was included in the territory of Amalfi. Ravello is like a terrace over the sea: It boasts wonderful look-outs, the so-called belvedere, as for example the one dedicated to Princess of Piemonte, from where the whole coast can be admired. Ravello is situated on the Lattari Mounts characterized by a wonderful vegetation, on a cliff dividing the valleys of the Dragone and Reginna streams. From a height of 350 m above the sea-level Ravello dominates the blue sea of the Amalfi Coast. Giovanni Boccaccio charmed by the beauties of these places described them in his work "Decameron". The main character of one of its short stories comes from Ravello, Landolfo Rufolo: he was a
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...nobleman who had chosen to be a pirate. He shipwrecked but found, thanks to his abilities and good luck, a great treasure. In 1819 the famous English painter William Turner visited Italy and spent some time in Ravello. His sketches of the Amalfi Coast are now exhibited in the Tate Gallery in London. Ravello has a quiet, silent atmosphere that enchants all the people coming to visit it, and boasts beautiful villas which are the most famous buildings of the town: Villa Rufolo built in the XI century, with its terraces on the sea and Villa Cimbrone with its wonderful belvedere. During the XIX and XX centuries many artists, painters, musicians were inspired by the beautiful landscapes of Ravello, as for example Ruskin, Miró, Vedova and Escher; André Gide set in Ravello some episodes of his work "The immoralist"; Lawrence wrote there "Lady Chatterley's Lover" and Graham Green "The third man"; Wagner imagined that the beautiful gardens of Villa Rufolo were 'the magic garden of Klingsor' in his masterpiece "Parsifal". The most important monument is the Cathedral, built in the XII century.
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