{"id":4824,"date":"2022-04-10T07:33:33","date_gmt":"2022-04-10T07:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.laterrazza-sorrento.menale.com\/positano-i\/"},"modified":"2025-04-14T15:07:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T15:07:22","slug":"positano-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laterrazza-sorrento.menale.com\/en\/positano-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Positano"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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When John Steinbeck visited Positano in 1953, he wrote that it was difficult to consider tourism an industry because \u2018there are not enough [tourists]\u2019.<\/h2>\n
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Alas, there are now more than enough of them, and the town\u2019s vertical landscape of pastel-colored houses, curtains of bright pink bougainvillea and sapphire-blue sea make it easy to see why.<\/p>\n

The most photographed fishing village in the world, this fabulous locale is home to around 4,000 Positanesi, who are joined daily by hordes from Capri, Sorrento and Amalfi.<\/p>\n

The town clings to the Lattari Mountains with arcaded cubic buildings, arranged in steps up the mountainside, in shades of pink, peach, purple and ivory.<\/p>\n

A name now known around the world, its origins may be a corruption of the Greek \u201cPoseidon\u201d, or derived from a man named Posides, who owned villas here in the time of Claudius; or even from Roman freedmen, called Posdii.<\/p>\n

The most popular theory is that the name \u201cPositano\u201d derives from Pestano (or Pesitano), a 9th-century town from a Benedictine abbey near Montepertuso, built by refugees from Paestum to the south, whose homes had been sacked by the Saracens.<\/p>\n

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Pisa sacked the area in 1268, but after an elaborate defensive system of watchtowers was put in place, Positano prospered again, briefly rivaling Amalfi.<\/p>\n

As a fiefdom of Neapolitan families until the late 17th century, Positano produced silk and, later, linen goods, but decline began again in the late 18th century.<\/p>\n

With the advent of the steamship in the mid-19th century, about three-quarters of the town\u2019s 8,000 citizens emigrated to America, mostly New York, and eventually regressed to a backwater fishing village.<\/p>\n

That is, until artists and intellectuals, and then travelers, rediscovered its prodigious charms in the 20th century. Picasso, Stravinsky, Diaghilev, Olivier, Steinbeck, Klee, even Lenin, were just a few of this town\u2019s talented fans.<\/p>\n

Lemons, grapes, olives, fish, resort gear and, of course, tourism continue to thrive, but despite its refined and sophisticated popularity, Positano\u2019s main export remains its most valuable asset: beauty.<\/p>\n

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When John Steinbeck visited Positano in 1953, he wrote that it was difficult to consider tourism an industry because \u2018there are not enough [tourists]\u2019. Amalfi Coast Alas, there are now more than enough of them, and the town\u2019s vertical landscape […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4497,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laterrazza-sorrento.menale.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laterrazza-sorrento.menale.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laterrazza-sorrento.menale.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laterrazza-sorrento.menale.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laterrazza-sorrento.menale.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4824"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.laterrazza-sorrento.menale.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5154,"href":"https:\/\/www.laterrazza-sorrento.menale.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4824\/revisions\/5154"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laterrazza-sorrento.menale.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laterrazza-sorrento.menale.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laterrazza-sorrento.menale.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laterrazza-sorrento.menale.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}