Amalfi Coast

Villa Rufolo is one of the points required for those who take the “grand tour” to explore the culture and natural beauty of Italy.
It is a collection of buildings surrounded by a garden planted with pines, cypress trees and exotic plants.
The buildings and garden stand on u natural terrace overlooking the Gulf of Salerno: the pan position is one of the major attractions of the villa.

The style is tasteful Arab-siculo, as in all constructions of the thirteenth century in the Duchy of Amalfi. The villa was built by rich family Rufolo in the twelfth century.

Appointed several times in various literary, remembers Boccaccio, who visited Ravello and recalls Landolfo Rufolo in one of the novels of Decamerone.
To access the villa comes from Torre, whose hall is decorated with elegant arches braided.

After a driveway you come to the three floors of the villa.

The most striking is the courtyard, with two lodges in Arab-style siculo decorated with polychrome fouling.

The rooms in which you are: the exhibition, divided into two aisles and used as a greenhouse, the waiting room, bathroom, the chapel and the Tower Major.
Wagner stayed in 1880, was kidnapped instantly from the park so to make the model of magical garden of Klingsor in Parsifal.

In honour of the great composer, every year we organize large music concerts wagneriane.

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Ravello lies on contrafforte that divides the valley of the Dragon than that of Reginna, dominating from its 350 meters high above sea level, countries Underlying Minor and Maiori.

Ravello, is a context where the atmospheric effects, luministici space and determine a vision intense, unique, which is sublime.

It felt the mysterious magic and immortalized the memory Giovanni Boccaccio in his “Decameron”. In 1819 the great English painter William Turner stayed in Italy, going up to Ravello.

The sketches that performed the Amalfi Coast are now exposed to the Tate Gallery in London. On the right of the Cathedral (located in the center) a square tower marks the entrance to VILLA RUFOLO, complex of buildings dating from the second half of the thirteenth century.

From the vestibule of the tower entrance, decorated with intricate arches on the walls and in the time and having the corners four large statues symbolising the Charity and Hospitality “virtue assiduously practiced by Rufolo” through a tree-lined avenue you reach the three-storey building . To the left is the Tower majeure, about thirty metres high, on the right is the courtyard, a square, like a cloister. Through the avenue is received at the terrace of Richard Wagner, so called because here, on 26 May 1880, the “musicality of lights and colors” inspired to Maestro framework scenic garden of Klingsor, the second act of the musical drama Parsifal. The dramatic landscape is now backdrop, every summer, the festival wagneriano, a traditional event for lovers of classical music.

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