Best hotels in Amalfi Coast | A Curated Visual Guide to Top Stays

Welcome to PressBeyond, the ultimate curated visual guide for design-driven hotels! My name is Will Miller and these are my recommendations for the best boutique and luxury hotels in Amalfi Coast.

I am the founder of PressBeyond and I am an ultra-meticulous hotel curator who loves clean visuals. I have individually analyzed and tiered each hotel included in this guide based on a variety of criteria (architecture & design, location, brand & brand affiliation, existing reviews, and my own personal experiences), and importantly, I have hand-selected the leading imagery for each hotel to provide you with easily-digestible, yet detailed and complete, like-for-like, high-level visual profiles. I felt this summarization step was a critical missing piece across existing guides, blogs, and booking platforms. My aim is to make it easier for people to identify hotel environments that resonate with them, along with enabling them to visualize the types of social experiences that those environments help foster. My brain doesn't work when exposed to cluttered content, so my goal was to create the opposite.

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An Overview of the Boutique & Luxury Hotel Landscape in Amalfi Coast

The Amalfi Coast is not a place that rewards those looking for ease of movement. The road — the SS163, blasted into the cliff face in the 1850s under Bourbon commission — is narrow, vertiginous, and shared by buses, mopeds, and pedestrians in a state of permanent negotiation. Where a hotel sits in relation to that road, and how it solves the problem of the cliff itself, is more revealing than almost any other design consideration here. Ravello, sitting four hundred meters above the sea and insulated from the coastal traffic, produces the most self-contained experience. The Caruso, a former eleventh-century palazzo restored by Belmond with an infinity pool cut into the garden terrace, operates at a register of cultivated quiet that feels almost monastic. Its annex Villa Margherita extends that same atmosphere at rates that reflect its exclusivity of scale. Palazzo Avino, a twelfth-century pink-stucco villa with interiors dressed in hand-painted Vietri ceramics and antique furnishings, offers a denser, more decorated domestic character — less pared back, more explicitly rooted in the Campanian tradition. Down on the coast, Le Sirenuse in Positano is the definitive reference point: a former Sersale family villa, still family-run, with a particular confidence in its salmon-pink facade and a collection of antiques assembled over seven decades of ownership. Il San Pietro di Positano, designed to cascade down the cliff on a series of terraces and reached by private elevator from the road, represents the most architecturally resolved cliff-integration on the coast. Casa Angelina in Praiano takes the opposite approach — a whitewashed, contemporary-leaning property with cleaner lines and an all-white interior palette that reads as the coast seen through a more minimal lens. The former religious buildings constitute their own category. The Anantara Convento di Amalfi occupies a thirteenth-century Capuchin monastery perched above the town, its Gothic cloister and original frescoes absorbed into a hospitality program with varying degrees of grace. Monastero Santa Rosa, a seventeenth-century Dominican monastery clinging to the cliffs between Amalfi and Positano, was privately restored and opened in 2012 with gardens designed by landscape architect Enzo Enea — its terraced grounds are among the most carefully considered on the coast. Santa Caterina, a family-owned institution in Amalfi itself, and Borgo Santandrea, a more recent arrival built into the rock face east of Amalfi, round out a portfolio in which the cliff is never background — it is always the primary architectural condition everything else must answer to.

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Il San Pietro di Positano

Amalfi Coast • Positano • OVER THE TOP

avg. $1,217 / night

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Il San Pietro di Positano Design Editorial

Carved into a sheer limestone cliff between Positano and Praiano, where the rock face drops almost vertically into water of extraordinary clarity, Il San Pietro di Positano is one of the rare hotels whose site feels genuinely non-negotiable — as though no other arrangement of building and landscape could have produced it. Carlo Cinque, whose family has run the property since it opened in 1970, designed the hotel himself, cutting terraces and passages directly into the cliff so that the 60 rooms cascade down the rockface in a series of staggered levels, invisible from the coast road above and discovered only by a private elevator shaft bored through the mountain. The aerial view reveals the full ambition of the project: a tennis court improbably levelled into the rock, a private beach platform at sea level, and gardens planted into every available ledge. The interiors draw heavily on the local craft tradition of the Amalfi Coast, with hand-painted Vietri ceramic tiles covering the floors in geometric diamond patterns of cobalt, emerald, and white — each room slightly different from its neighbour. Furniture runs to white-lacquered frames with upholstery in fuchsia and Capri blue, paired with forged-iron chandeliers and Murano glass lamps that carry more than a trace of 1970s Italian resort sensibility. The terrace restaurant, its green-painted colonnade hung with antique iron lanterns and open on three sides to the Tyrrhenian, maintains the unhurried formality that has defined this stretch of coastline for half a century.

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Palazzo Avino

Amalfi Coast • Ravello • OVER THE TOP

avg. $1,335 / night

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Palazzo Avino Design Editorial

Perched some 350 metres above the Tyrrhenian Sea on Ravello's clifftop plateau, a twelfth-century Moorish villa that once belonged to the Sasso family has spent the better part of a millennium accumulating layers of architectural biography. Palazzo Avino — known until 2012 as the Club Rossellinis — carries that history visibly in its salmon-pink facade, where Gothic-arched windows with their pointed lancet forms sit above terraced gardens that cascade down the hillside in a series of vine-clad retaining walls toward the sea far below. The 33-room property underwent a significant interior renovation under the direction of the Avino family, emerging with interiors that set pale celadon velvets, bespoke curved headboards, and bouclé armchairs against barrel-vaulted ceilings of whitewashed plaster — a palette borrowed from the coast itself, all sea-glass greens, terracotta, and dusty rose. The rooms shown in the images demonstrate a confidence with ornament that avoids period pastiche: antique walnut commodes are placed beside contemporary brass wall sconces, while custom rugs in abstract botanical patterns anchor spaces that feel genuinely residential rather than assembled. On the uppermost terrace, the open-air restaurant extends under a steel-framed pergola with wrought-iron scroll detailing, terracotta parquet underfoot, and views sweeping west toward the cape. Down at water level, a compact pool is carved into the rock face beside the sea, bougainvillea and ivy pressing against the cliff behind it.

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Casa Angelina

Amalfi Coast • Praiano • OVER THE TOP

avg. $2,062 / night

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Casa Angelina Design Editorial

Cliffside architecture on the Amalfi Coast tends toward the theatrical — centuries-old villas draped in bougainvillea, terraces cantilevered over vertiginous drops. Casa Angelina, perched above Praiano between Positano and Amalfi, takes the opposite position entirely. The building's white rendered volumes, stacked in a clean modernist sequence against the limestone cliff, carry the geometry of a Rationalist manifesto rather than anything Mediterranean vernacular. The facade presents as a series of receding horizontal planes, large casement windows pushing sea views into every room, a rooftop terrace rising above the treeline toward open sky. Inside, the commitment to white is near-total. Herringbone-pattern ceramic floor tiles, white-lacquered furniture, and linen-slip-covered dining chairs in the restaurant maintain a register close to a Mediterranean art gallery, interrupted by teak sun decks at the infinity pool and warm cherry-wood flooring in the dining room, where a pale green dado and the occasional piece of hand-painted ceramic sculpture introduce just enough colour to prevent the scheme from tipping into sterility. The 40 rooms and suites continue this discipline — Tolomeo wall lamps in the simpler categories, woven rattan headboards and oval wool rugs in the more generous suites, aquamarine throw blankets providing the one chromatic accent against the white. The Tyrrhenian Sea, framed through floor-to-ceiling openings on every floor, does the rest of the decorative work.

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Borgo Santandrea

Amalfi Coast • Amalfi • OVER THE TOP

avg. $2,531 / night

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Borgo Santandrea Design Editorial

Grafted into a limestone cliff between Amalfi and Praiano, where a medieval watchtower of rough-cut stone still anchors the seaward face of the building, Borgo Santandrea opened in 2021 after an extensive renovation of a mid-century structure that had long watched over this particular crescent of shingle beach. The tower, visible in the images with its pointed Gothic-arched openings, predates everything else here by several centuries, and the hotel's most persuasive design move is simply leaving it alone — letting that ancient masonry stand in contrast to the whitewashed contemporary volumes rising above it in terraced layers, vine-draped pergolas softening the transition between built form and cliff face. The interiors were developed with a confident, thoroughly Mediterranean sensibility: vaulted ceilings in the guestrooms carry arched French doors that frame the Tyrrhenian in wide compositions of blue and white, while the floors carry hand-glazed ceramic tiles in bold chevron and checkerboard geometries — cobalt against cream — that connect the rooms directly to the Vietri sul Mare tile tradition of the broader Campanian coast. Midcentury Italian furniture, teak-framed armchairs upholstered in deep navy, ceramic bedside lamps painted with coastal motifs, and black-and-white photographic prints give each room the atmosphere of a well-loved private villa rather than a hotel corridor replicated at scale. The terrace bar, furnished with rattan-and-teak lounge seating beneath a white pergola colonnade, positions the dramatic cliff backdrop as the dominant architectural element — which, frankly, it always was.

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Le Sirenuse

Amalfi Coast • Positano • OVER THE TOP

avg. $2,588 / night

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Le Sirenuse Design Editorial

What began as the Sersale family's private summer residence has never really stopped feeling like one. Le Sirenuse, the 58-room hotel carved from an eighteenth-century palazzo cascading down Positano's cliffside, was converted by the family themselves in 1951 and has remained in their hands ever since — a continuity that shapes everything from the collection of antique prints on the bedroom walls to the way terracotta pots spilling with bougainvillea punctuate every terrace balustrade. The building's distinctive crimson and white facade, with its arched loggias and wrought-iron balconies picked out in scrolling ironwork, gives the property an identity so specific to this stretch of the Amalfi Coast that it has become, for many, the visual shorthand for Positano itself. Inside, the interiors maintain the atmosphere of an inherited home assembled over generations rather than designed in a single act. Rooms are furnished with gilded four-poster beds draped in ikat and blue-and-white printed fabrics, their floors laid in traditional Vietri ceramic tiles in geometric patterns of cobalt and cream. Antique marquetry commodes and oil portraits of Neapolitan noblemen anchor the suites in a southern Italian domestic tradition. The pool terrace, dressed with lemon trees in oversized terracotta urns and teak sun loungers set against majolica-tiled paving, opens to an uninterrupted view across the Tyrrhenian toward Li Galli — the islands that, legend holds, were once home to Homer's sirens.

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Santa Caterina

Amalfi Coast • Amalfi • OVER THE TOP

avg. $2,764 / night

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Santa Caterina Design Editorial

Pressed into a sheer limestone cliff just west of Amalfi town, where the coast road carves its narrow passage between rock and sea, Hotel Santa Caterina has been family-owned since 1880, its white-rendered volumes climbing the terraced hillside in a sequence of loggias and hanging gardens that the Gambardella family has expanded and refined across five generations. A private funicular descends the cliff face to the saltwater pool and sea platform below — one of those solutions so specific to this coastline's vertical geography that it feels less like an amenity than a piece of engineering necessity. From the exterior, the building presents as a layered accumulation rather than a single architectural gesture, bougainvillea and wisteria softening the transitions between levels. Inside, the 66 rooms draw on the traditional vocabulary of southern Campanian domestic interiors: hand-painted Vietri ceramic floor tiles in blue-and-white geometric and floral patterns, gilt-framed baroque headboards hung with white voile canopies, dark-stained walnut and chestnut case pieces paired with white-painted Louis XVI revival armchairs upholstered in indigo ikat fabric. The dining terrace, covered by a retractable white awning and furnished with rattan bistro chairs at white-clothed round tables, frames a panorama across the Gulf of Salerno toward the Lattari mountains — a composition so precisely calibrated between interior comfort and the Tyrrhenian light that the room seems to dissolve at its edges.

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Caruso, A Belmond Hotel

Amalfi Coast • Ravello • OVER THE TOP

avg. $2,785 / night

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Caruso, A Belmond Hotel Design Editorial

At roughly 350 metres above the Tyrrhenian Sea, on Ravello's clifftop where the Amalfi Coast crumples into its most dramatic geometry, an eleventh-century palazzo that once belonged to the Fusco family was converted into one of southern Italy's defining grand hotels. Caruso — now part of the Belmond portfolio — carries that medieval origin in its bones: exposed rubble-stone vaulted ceilings arch over several of the 48 rooms, their rough volcanic masonry left entirely untouched, while barrel-vaulted plasterwork in other chambers is picked out in thin terracotta pinstripes that follow the curve of the ceiling to the cornice line. The whitewashed facade, climbing in tiers above ivy-draped stone arcades, presents a layered silhouette that belongs entirely to this stretch of the coast. Terracotta floor tiles, dark-stained cane-panel furniture, and paisley-upholstered headboards establish the rooms' warm palette, keeping the interiors in close conversation with the building's age rather than competing with it. On the dining terrace, striped cushioned chairs at linen-clothed tables face a panorama of the Lattari mountains dropping toward the sea — a view Wagner and D.H. Lawrence both knew from Ravello's ridgeline. The infinity pool, set against the cliff's edge as sky and water merge at dusk, extends the property's essential proposition: that the landscape here is so extravagant that the architecture's chief responsibility is simply not to interrupt it.

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Villa Margherita (Part of Caruso), A Belmond Hotel

Amalfi Coast • Ravello • OVER THE TOP

avg. $5,317 / night

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Villa Margherita (Part of Caruso), A Belmond Hotel Design Editorial

Perched some 350 metres above the Tyrrhenian Sea on the clifftop gardens of Ravello, a nineteenth-century palazzo that once served as a private aristocratic retreat has become one of the Amalfi Coast's most quietly authoritative addresses. Belmond Caruso, which incorporates the Villa Margherita as part of its historic estate, was restored in 2009 with interiors overseen in the grand tradition of Italian palazzo hospitality — whitewashed walls, wide-plank oak floors, and hand-painted botanical ceiling frescoes that climb across corniced plasterwork in trailing vines and flowering branches. The 24 rooms and suites carry the atmosphere of a well-inherited house rather than a composed hotel, furnished with gilded Baroque mirrors, Louis XVI-style fauteuils upholstered in cut velvet, antique walnut chests, and aged cartographic prints hung with the studied nonchalance of things always having belonged there. Outside, ancient olive trees anchor terraced gardens thick with agapanthus, laurel, and cascading geraniums — the kind of planting that takes generations to achieve. The infinity pool, framed by stone arches draped in ivy and a pair of classical rendered columns, reflects the sky over the Lattari mountains in near-perfect symmetry at dusk. The open-air restaurant terrace, shaded by a striped canvas awning and set with round tables dressed in pale linen and striped bergère chairs, delivers what is perhaps the most dramatically positioned dining on the entire coast — the mountains falling sheer to the sea below, the horizon impossibly wide.

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Hotel Piccolo Sant'Andrea

Amalfi Coast • Praiano • OVER THE TOP

avg. $960 / night

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Hotel Piccolo Sant'Andrea Design Editorial

Cantilevered directly over a sheer limestone cliff between Amalfi and Positano, the structure that houses Hotel Piccolo Sant'Andrea at Praiano achieves something that even its more celebrated neighbours along the Costiera struggle to match: a position so exposed to open water that the Tyrrhenian appears to begin at the building's own foundations. The property cascades down the rock face in terraced volumes of rendered masonry and arched loggias, the stonework reading as a natural extension of the cliff rather than an imposition upon it — a quality visible in the exterior image where vegetation and building material blur into the same warm ochre register. Inside, the interiors strike a considered balance between Mediterranean restraint and deliberate colour. White-walled rooms are grounded by terracotta tile floors and dressed with damask-upholstered armchairs in sage and gold, while the suite visible in the images pushes further — a steel four-poster with a sculpted gilt headboard, an overdyed purple rug laid against the same warm floor tile, and contemporary photography on the wall that holds its own against the view beyond the terrace. The restaurant terrace, furnished with wrought-iron chairs in saffron yellow and topped with white linen, frames Positano directly across the bay at dusk, a composition that requires almost nothing from a designer because the coast itself does the work.

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Hotel Le Agavi

Amalfi Coast • Positano • OVER THE TOP

avg. $1,328 / night

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Hotel Le Agavi Design Editorial

Carved directly into the vertiginous cliffside above Positano, where the SS163 Amalfitana winds between rock face and sea, Hotel Le Agavi claims one of the most dramatically positioned sites on the entire Campanian coast. The property cascades down the hillside in a series of terraced volumes — stone retaining walls, pergola-shaded dining terraces, and a pool deck cantilevered over the water far below — with Positano's chalk-white and terracotta village tumbling toward the beach in the middle distance. The pool itself is among the hotel's most distinctive gestures: an organically shaped basin with a mosaic floor of swirling teal and indigo waves, more artwork than amenity, backed by painted archways that carry the fluid motif onto the surrounding walls. Inside, the interiors move between two registers depending on the room category. The standard accommodation holds to a lighter, more traditional Amalfitano palette — pale ceramic floor tiles, arched French doors opening onto iron balconies, rattan chairs in powdery blue, the sea filling every window. The renovated suites take a more theatrical position: deep cobalt button-tufted headboards rising in full arches to the ceiling, Vietri-style encaustic floor tiles in navy and white geometric patterns, and curtains with bold colour-blocked hems. The restaurant's circular dining room draws the scheme together most confidently, its arched sea-facing windows framing the Tyrrhenian horizon while gilded elliptical ceiling medallions catch the afternoon light above white-draped tables and cane bistro chairs on jade-green majolica-tiled floors.

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Villa TreVille

Amalfi Coast • Positano • OVER THE TOP

avg. $1,402 / night

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Villa TreVille Design Editorial

Franco Zeffirelli lived here. The great director spent decades at this clifftop compound above Positano's Laurito beach, entertaining Luchino Visconti, Maria Callas, and Audrey Hepburn beneath the umbrella pines that still crowd the terraces down to the Tyrrhenian. Villa TreVille — three connected villas cascading down volcanic rock to a private cove — carries that history in its bones, and the current incarnation as a boutique hotel of around eighteen rooms makes no attempt to erase it. The aerial view reveals just how improbably the property clings to the cliff face, whitewashed volumes half-swallowed by Mediterranean vegetation, a small pool cantilevered above the water on a balustraded terrace that belongs more to a patrician private garden than to any hotel typology. Inside, the rooms work a palette of saturated sea colours — cobalt blue headboards with baroque carved crests against white barrel-vaulted ceilings, or turquoise linen and curtains over antique majolica tile floors in amber and cream — each referencing the Neapolitan decorative tradition without tipping into pastiche. Antique wood-bladed ceiling fans, wrought-iron wall sconces, and the persistent geometry of encaustic floor tiles ground the interiors firmly in southern Italian vernacular. The beach terrace, its white pergola hung with brass lantern pendants and flanked by cobalt ceramic urns planted with citrus, captures exactly the atmosphere Zeffirelli would have staged himself: theatrical, warm, and completely, convincingly Mediterranean.

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Hotel Villa Franca Positano

Amalfi Coast • Positano • OVER THE TOP

avg. $1,732 / night

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Hotel Villa Franca Positano Design Editorial

Perched at the cliff's edge where Positano's vertical geography drops straight to the Tyrrhenian, Hotel Villa Franca commands one of the most directionally unambiguous positions on the entire Amalfi Coast — not tucked into the hillside like its neighbors, but thrust toward the sea with the rooftop pool sitting above the town's church domes like a white travertine promontory. The property's whitewashed volumes follow the vernacular tradition of Campanian coastal architecture, stacked terraces and vaulted ceilings drawing on the same vocabulary that defines Positano's domestic building stock, but the interiors have been refined into something considerably more urbane. The rooms work a tight palette — white Carrara marble floors, charcoal silk curtains pooling against French doors, upholstered headboards in deep black or taupe with houndstooth accent chairs — that keeps the Tyrrhenian blue outside the balcony railing as the dominant color event. The bar room is the interior set piece: a low barrel-vaulted space with arched apertures framing sea views, furnished with oversized black velvet tub chairs pulled around live-edge stone tables, a gilded sculptural bust set into a window niche as a deliberate provocation against the whitewashed austerity. The rooftop terrace, laid in pale travertine with black rattan sun loungers, turns the hotel's position into the whole proposition — the Lattari Mountains flanking one side, open water filling the other.

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Monastero Santa Rosa Hotel & Spa

Amalfi Coast • Amalfi • OVER THE TOP

avg. $1,894 / night

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Monastero Santa Rosa Hotel & Spa Design Editorial

Carved into a near-vertical stretch of cliffside between Conca dei Marini and Furore, a seventeenth-century Dominican convent has been transformed into one of the Amalfi Coast's most considered small hotels. Monastero Santa Rosa Hotel & Spa opened in 2012 after an eight-year restoration overseen by American owner Bianca Sharma, who acquired the derelict property in 2000 and worked with local craftsmen to bring it back without erasing the weight of its monastic origins. The building's original lime-washed stucco facades, arched doorways, and vaulted ceilings were preserved throughout, and the interiors carry the quiet authority of spaces that have held centuries of silence. Just twenty-two rooms and suites are distributed across the ancient structure, each finished with locally sourced travertine floors, dark-stained timber shutters, and upholstered headboards in muted damasks of sage and cream — details visible in the images that keep the atmosphere closer to a private residence than a resort conversion. Outside, the terraced gardens step dramatically down the cliff toward the sea, planted with lavender, rosemary, lemon trees, and seasonal flowering beds in deep crimson, all framed by dry-stone retaining walls built in the traditional Campanian manner. The infinity pool, set on its own terrace with the Tyrrhenian dropping away beyond the edge, aligns so precisely with the horizon that the boundary between water and sea becomes genuinely ambiguous. The cliffside restaurant terrace, built from rough-hewn timber posts and terracotta tile, extends this same vernacular logic outward over the void.

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Anantara Convento di Amalfi Grand Hotel

Amalfi Coast • Amalfi • OVER THE TOP

avg. $1,946 / night

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Anantara Convento di Amalfi Grand Hotel Design Editorial

Carved into the vertiginous limestone cliffs above Amalfi town, a thirteenth-century Capuchin monastery has spent more of its existence as a hotel than as a place of worship — a transformation that began in 1825 when it welcomed its first guests, making the Anantara Convento di Amalfi Grand Hotel one of the oldest continuously operating hotels on the entire coast. The cloister, the vaulted chapter rooms, the monks' cells: all of it pressed into hospitality service, with the dramatic consequence that guests sleep beneath groin-vaulted ceilings and move between spaces that retain the geometry of medieval religious architecture while accommodating thoroughly contemporary furniture. The 2021 renovation, carried out under the Anantara flag, layered a considered contemporary interior sensibility over the existing bones without obscuring them. Suites pair original terracotta-tiled floors and whitewashed barrel vaults with low-slung lounge chairs in grey wool bouclé, walnut-framed room dividers fitted with arched mirrors, and warm ochre linen cushions — a palette that echoes the cliff face outside rather than competing with it. Arched floor mirrors, Tolomeo-style reading lamps, and dark marble bathroom surrounds complete a register that sits closer to a well-appointed Milanese apartment than a resort. On the open terraces, hand-painted Vietri ceramic chargers and dark timber dining chairs frame views across the Tyrrhenian that the monks, one suspects, appreciated for entirely different reasons.