Ravello
Ravello is one of the gems of the Amalfi coast. 350 meters above sea level, where the light effects and magical architecture create a vision of rare intensity. Ravello is famous for its tranquil and serene atmosphere and offers architectural gems of rare elegance with its arab-siculian style, unforgettable panoramas, gardens and important art objects inside its famous 12th century Villas. Nature and man’s touch compete to create a highly evocative atmosphere: villas lined by lime trees and cypresses, cascades of flowers. From the belvedere the sea seems infinite. Ravello is immortalized in Boccaccio’s Decameron. A tourist destination of élite, frequented by artists and intellectuals since the 800’s, is a lively town all year due to important cultural events. Unnumbered are the celebrities, musicians, writers and artists have found in Ravello their artistic inspiration, like Wagner who found inspiration for the Klingsor Garden, in his opera Parsifal, in a garden of one of the Villas, as well as Winston Churchill, Greta Garbo.
In this “place of soul” the inventions of Grieg’s Peer Gynt owe much to the woods of Ravello. Toscanini, Leonard Bernstein, Rostropovich, and Bruno Walter also spend relaxing time here. Ravello also hosted Mirò, Escher, Turner, whose seascapes of the area are to be found in London’s Tate Gallery, as well as the writer and art critic Ruskin. Forster, author of Room with a View, describes parts of the town. David Herbert Lawrence wrote many chapters of Lady Chatterley’s Lover here, and Andrè Gide set part of his novel The Immoralist in Ravello. Many more came here to enjoy the unique beauty, others settled here for good: Virginia Woolf, Paul Valéry, Graham Greene, Tennessee Williams, Rafael Alberti and Gore Vidal.
For an intimate and exclusive wedding, Ravello is a most refined choices of location. The cathedral for catholic wedding celebrations is one of the most antique in Campania and the marvellous Villas, famous all over the world, rich with flowers and breathtaking views are the best choice for an Elite wedding.
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