In 1880 Wagner recognised in Villa Rufolo's garden the magic garden of Klingsor from his Parsifal: Ravello has been the city of music ever since, and each summer the festival sets its orchestra on a stage cantilevered over the void. At 350 metres above the sea, the village is an inhabited belvedere, quiet in the evening once the coaches descend.
Villa Cimbrone answers with the Terrace of Infinity and its row of busts against the blue. The cathedral keeps thirteenth-century mosaic pulpits; Gore Vidal, who lived here thirty years, called it the most beautiful place in the world. Hard to disagree.
Villa Rufolo · Villa Cimbrone and the Terrace of Infinity · Duomo di Ravello
Pizza Napoletana · Caprese
24 places to stay · top rated: HOTEL ZI'NTONIO 9.8 · Palazzo Avino 9.8
Next up: Feast of Saint Pantaleon, Tuesday 27 July
Nearest airport: Napoli Capodichino, 38 km away
Ravello is part of 🏘️ Villages 🏛️ UNESCO heritage
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📅 Every year, on 27 July
On 27 July the cathedral of Ravello displays the ampoule holding Saint Pantaleon's blood, which liquefies on that day each year. It is the patron's feast, shared with Saint Barbara.
Villa Rufolo The garden where Wagner recognised Klingsor's, hanging above the Gulf of Salerno. 
Villa Cimbrone and the Terrace of Infinity Historic Ravello estate famous for the Terrace of Infinity, transformed in 1904 into an eclectic intellectual 
Duomo di Ravello The bronze door of 1179 and the pulpit with the portrait of Sigilgaita Rufolo. Straight-line distances from the town centre. Tap a point to open its page.
The closest destinations covered by our editors, with straight-line distance.
Outside Ravello, but an easy day trip away.
