Italy Two Centre Holidays - Amalfi Coast

The confetti-coloured villas and dizzying heights of the Amalfi Coast are pure postcard material. On the ‘road of a thousand bends’, take the Amalfi Drive for breakneck turns hacked out of the mountainside, and marvel in the 1,000ft views of the glittering sea. The more faint hearted will delight in the picturesque towns, well equipped for relaxation if the drive has left you in need of a glass of Prosecco.

Positano, with its clusters of pink and peach houses tumbling down to a rocky shore paints a romantic picture, which explains the town’s popularity with honeymooners and young couples. Ravello has often played the artist’s muse; its elegant palaces and rugged hillside inspired some of Wagner’s greatest opera. Amalfi is a small town littered with architectural remnants of its days as an ancient maritime republic, with an impressive Duomo and Cathedral embellished with 13th century cloisters and Moorish arches.