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The Amalfi Coast stretches 25 miles along the Sorrentine Peninsula in southern Italy, facing south into the Tyrrhenian Sea. The steep cliffs create naturally sheltered coves with protected, calm water. The lack of major rivers nearby keeps the water exceptionally clear.
No Atlantic sargassum. The Tyrrhenian Sea and broader Mediterranean are free from the sargassum belt. Amalfi Coast water quality is generally excellent. Some posidonia (Mediterranean native seagrass) may appear: this is natural and a sign of a healthy ecosystem.
Amalfi was a maritime republic that rivaled Venice and Genoa in the 9th and 10th centuries: its sailors and merchants traded across the Mediterranean from Constantinople to North Africa, and the Amalfi Tables, a maritime code of law written in the 11th century, governed seafaring disputes across the Mediterranean for 500 years. The steep cliffs of the Amalfi Coast held another strategic advantage: the terraced lemon groves that still cascade down to the sea were cultivated for centuries, their fruit prized by sailors as a scurvy preventative long before the British Navy officially adopted citrus. The narrow coastal path connecting the cliffside towns: the 'Path of the Gods': was the main highway for centuries before roads were blasted into the limestone in the 20th century, and it remains the most atmospheric way to move between the coast's villages.
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