Praiano

Praiano, Italy (about halfway between Amalfi and Positano if that helps).  Where we stayed on the Amalfi Coast in 2006 and 2010.  We'll return sometime.

This is the Hotel Onda Verde.  Actually, while the Hotel is in this picture a lot of what's in the picture is not the hotel.  I'm still not quite sure of the exact line between the family owned hotel and the various private residences built into the cliff.

Starting at the left you see a Saracen Tower, part of a series of towers built along this coast in the 9th and 10th century to provide warning of raiders from North Africa and Sicily (which was conquered by the Arabs in the 9th century).  To the right of the tower and closer to the water (with the yellow sign) is a restaurant not associated with the hotel.  Most of the hotel lies directly and to the right above the restaurant.  You have to park up on the road which is at the very top of the picture and then take an elevator down to the hotel's lobby.

Here's a view looking towards where the picture above was taken.  The hotel is along the cliff to the left.  In the opening between the two cliffs in the center is a beach and an area with three or four restaurants where we would walk down in the evenings and get dinner.  You can see part of the main road above this area and at the right side of the picture.  The road passes through tunnels on either side of the opening.

Breakfast was pretty nice:

Actually, it was pretty nice any time of day.