Pastena-Lone Circuit

A plethora of writers, poets, artists and musicians have visited and been inspired by this rugged, beautiful coastline: among them the poet Longfellow who, though more commonly associated with America, was a huge Italophile with a special feel for this area, writing fulsomely about the local landscape in his idyll, Amalfi.

<span style="font-family:" en-gb"="">Starting at the far side of the road tunnel on Amalfi?s western edge, this is a lovely pastoral walk which leads, firstly, upwards (the highest point is 820ft from the start) via rock-hewn steps and good paths, past series of fine chapels and into the foothills of the Lattari mountains, and returns gently downhill (with a detour for those who want a glimpse of something more rugged) along a higher level of the same coast back to the starting point. A lush paradise of citrus and olive, vines and wildflowers whose terraces, climbing up above the blue Mediterranean, are a moving history lesson in their own right.