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To the south, the former fishing villages of Sorrento and Positano spill down the craggy cliffs of the serpentine Amalfi coast, justifiably tauted as one of the world’s most beautiful drives.
Ferries or hydrofoils leave from Naples, Sorrento, and Positano (and Amalfi in the summer months only) for this fabled island 10 sq km (4 sq miles) in size.
Compare their modern and sadly more commercialized wares with their forefathers’ elaborate Baroque furniture exhibited at the Museo Correale, in an 18th-century palazzo at the east end of town — Sorrento’s only real museum of note.
Surrounded on three sides by ravines above the sea, the pretty tree-shaded resort of Sorrento still retains something of its old-fashioned air, and is still the most popular and best logistic base for boat and car excursions along the coast and peninsula.
Many cities continue to be renowned for products of their traditional crafts: Naples’ costumed hand-crafted figures for its nativity sets, Sorrento’s intarsia (inlaid wood for furniture, frames or music boxes), Volterra’s alabaster, Gubbio’s ceramics, Florence’s leathergoods, Venice’s glassware.