Massa Lubrense
10 places
- Sacred art
Belvedere del Deserto — Sant'Agata sui Due Golfi
Massa Lubrense
From the old Carmelite convent the gaze takes in both gulfs at a single turn, Naples and Salerno, high above Sant'Agata.
Nature & hikingPunta Campanella
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The furthest tip of the Sorrento peninsula, a wind-beaten marine reserve between the two gulfs, with its watchtower and Capri an arm of sea away.
- Nature & hiking
Tempio di Atena
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Near the tower survive the traces of the sanctuary of Athena that legend says was founded by Ulysses, where the Greeks worshipped the goddess sheer above the sea.
- Free beaches
Cala di Mitigliano e grotta
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A path through olive trees drops down to the rocks, Capri looks an arm's length away, and the cave opens in the water like a hall of shadow and salt.
- Free beaches
Fiordo
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A cleft in the rock where the sea slips in, narrow and green, almost always shaded beneath high walls: you don't come here for the sun, but for the silence.
- Free beaches
Marina di Crapolla
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Seven hundred steps down from Torca lead to a tiny landing place, where the chapel of San Pietro rests on Benedictine ruins and fishermen carve boat shelters out of Roman columns.
- Hiking
Anello di Punta Campanella
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At the tip of the Sorrento peninsula the trail reaches Punta Campanella, where a watchtower gazes at Capri opposite, across a narrow, blue arm of sea.
- In the water & diving
Cala di Mitigliano
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You walk down among olive trees and scrub to a pebble cove facing Capri, where the water is so clear the seabed blurs into the sky.
- Villages
Marina della Lobra
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Colourful boats hauled ashore, nets spread out and the church facing the sea: below Massa Lubrense a small fishing harbour survives, far from the clamour of the coast.
- Views & panoramas
Belvedere di Sant'Agata sui Due Golfi
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From here, in a single glance, the two gulfs: Naples with Vesuvius on one side, Salerno and the mountains on the other, with the watershed of the Sorrento peninsula underfoot.