Instead of Ravello
Instead of Ravello: coastal towns and hill towns within 90 minutes
Ravello is the quiet one on the Amalfi Coast, which now means it is merely busy rather than impassable, and the gardens are still worth the climb.
The hills behind the coast, and the Cilento coast beyond Salerno, give you the same height over the same sea.
Coastal towns and hill towns in our catalogue within 90 minutes of Ravello by road, ranked by outside recognition. Ravello itself and the other famous places are left out. 22 towns match; the 12 best-recognised are below.
Instead of Ravello
Ravello · 2,390 residents · Campania
- FuroreSalerno
Coastal town · Borghi più belli d'Italia
- From Ravello
- 21m by car
- Residents
- 688
- When to go
- May–Sep
- Conca dei MariniSalerno
Coastal town · Borghi più belli d'Italia
- From Ravello
- 19m by car
- Residents
- 664
- When to go
- May–Sep
- AtraniSalerno
Coastal town · Borghi più belli d'Italia
- From Ravello
- 12m by car
- Residents
- 797
- When to go
- May–Sep
- Vietri sul MareSalerno
Coastal town · Borghi più belli d'Italia
- From Ravello
- 36m by car
- By train
- Reachable
- Residents
- 7,180
- When to go
- May–Sep
- AmalfiSalerno
Coastal town · UNESCO
- From Ravello
- 20m by car
- Residents
- 4,729
- When to go
- May–Sep
The 5 best-recognised of the 22 towns that match. Drive times measured by road from Ravello. More of them follow below.
Furore
Province: Salerno · 300 m
The Amalfi Coast village with no piazza and no center, scattered on rock walls 300 meters above the only fjord in southern Italy.
Conca dei Marini
Province: Salerno · 138 m
A coastal hamlet of 664 people on the Amalfi Coast, home to a monastery pastry and a sea cave that glows green.
Atrani
Province: Salerno · 21 m
The smallest commune in Italy by area, twelve hectares of stacked houses where the Amalfi Coast pinches shut around a single piazza.
Vietri sul Mare
Province: Salerno · 80 m
The eastern end of the Amalfi Coast at 80 meters, the ceramics town since the fifteenth century, the gateway between Salerno and the cliff road.
Amalfi
Province: Salerno · 6 m
The first Italian maritime republic and the coast it named, six meters above the sea between cliffs that close around the duomo's steps.
Pompei
Province: Napoli · 30 m
The Roman city buried by Vesuvius in 79 AD, dug back up since 1748, and a modern town around Bartolo Longo's 1876 sanctuary.
Capaccio Paestum
Province: Salerno · 419 m
Three Doric temples of 550 to 450 BC on the Sele plain, with mozzarella di bufala DOP on the buffalo flats below.
Tramonti
Province: Salerno · 321 m
The inland side of the Amalfi Coast, thirteen hamlets on the Lattari slopes producing wine and an exported pizza dough.
Praiano
Province: Salerno · 120 m
The Amalfi commune between Positano and Amalfi where the doges of the maritime republic kept their summer residences and the Path of the Gods starts.
Torre Annunziata
Province: Napoli · 15 m
Capital of Italian pasta in the interwar period and home of the Roman Villa di Poppea, on the bay at the foot of Vesuvius.
Cetara
Province: Salerno · 10 m
The Amalfi Coast's working tuna and anchovy port, where colatura di alici is still aged in chestnut barrels in the cellars behind the marina.
Ercolano
Province: Napoli · 44 m
Ercolano is the modern town built directly over Herculaneum, the Roman seaside resort buried under 25m of pyroclastic mud in AD 79 rather than the ash that fell on Pompeii, which is why its wood, papyrus, and upper floors survive when no other Roman site's do.
Drive times measured by road from Ravello. A town with no time shown is one the router could not reach, usually because it is served by ferry. How this data is built.