Positano, Italy
Positano is a village on the Amalfi Coast of Italy in the province of Campania. It is one of the main tourist attractions in the area and its steep narrow streets gets very crowded in the holiday season. As well as the many shops, bars restaurants and hotels,the attractions include the church of Santa Maria Assunta featuring a dome made of majolica tiles as well as a thirteenth-century Byzantine icon of a black Madonna. Historically Positano was a relatively poor fishing village during the first half of the twentieth century but began to prosper during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries as a port for the Amalfi Republic. However, by the mid-nineteenth century the town had fallen on hard times again and over half the population emigrated, mostly to America. Prosperity returned in the mid 20th century when the town attracted large numbers of tourists especially after John Steinbeck published his essay about Positano in Harper's Bazaar in May, 1953. In "Positano bites deep", Steinbeck wrote. "It is a dream place that isn’t quite real when you are there and becomes beckoningly real after you have gone."
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Location: Positano, Amalfi Coast, Italy
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