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Ravello
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The best views of the coast can be had inland from Amalfi in
RAVELLO
: another renowned spot, "closer to the sky than the seashore", wrote Andre Gide - with some justification. Ravello was also an independent republic for a while, and for a time an outpost of the Amalfi city-state; now it's not much more than a large village, but its unrivalled location, spread across the top of one of the coast's mountains, 335m up, makes it more than worth the thirty-minute bus ride up from Amalfi - although, like most of this coast, the charms of Ravello haven't been recently discovered. Wagner based part of
Parsifal
, one of his last operas, on the place; D.H. Lawrence wrote some of
Lady Chatterley's Lover
here; John Huston filmed his languid movie
Beat the Devil
in town (a film in which the locations easily outshine the plot); and Gore Vidal is just one of the best known of many celebrities who spend at least part of the year here. Other useful information
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