Peek inside four beautiful houses on the dazzling Amalfi coast By Ana Cardinale For You Magazine Published: 12:01 BST, 15 June 2024 | Updated: 12:01 BST, 15 June 2024 e-mail View comments The list of artists and writers who have made their homes on Italy ’s Amalfi coast glitters like the Gulf of Salerno itself. And what magnificent homes they are. There is Villa Giulietta, boasting vivid walls of Pompeiian red.

It is ideally located in Positano, which writer John Steinbeck was stirred to describe as ‘a dream place that isn’t quite real when you are there and becomes beckoningly real after you have gone’. The villa La Rondinaia in Ravello caused the novelist Gore Vidal to declare it ‘an earthly paradise’ after rocking up on a motorbike with Tennessee Williams in 1948. He bought the five-floor miracle of Roman architecture, which is impossibly clamped to a rocky wall 1,000ft above the turquoise sea below, in 1972.

Nearby Villa Cimbrone, with its sea-facing ‘terrace of the infinite’, is where in 1938 film star Greta Garbo took refuge with the orchestra conductor Leopold Stokowski, so they could live their romance away from the Hollywood press. The costiera has enchanted Lord Byron, Oscar Wilde, Rudolf Nureyev, Jackie Kennedy, Maria Callas and Princess Margaret . Glamour and good times have always made a home here and are still very much in evidence.

The view for a thrill Casa Clemente, the home of actress and designer Alba Primiceri Clemente, muse to Warhol, Mapp.