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Wonderfull Ancient Villa on Amalfitan Coast Locality :Salerno miles 3, Amalfi miles 10 Positano 15, Ravello 14, Pompei 10, Napoli 22, Sorrento 20, Isola di Capri minutes 60, Ischia & Procida min. 90

Villa Amalia is situated in the town of Cava de’ Tirreni 23 motorway miles from  international airport of Naples .Here in Cava you are surrounded by a green country-side and the nearly sea. The bright green  of its valley was very much admired by the Romans who founded here a summer residence built by the Metello’s family. The old Villa Amalia was built in  the  17th  century by Prince Martin in Cava de’ TIrreni; it is located in a privileged position on the Amalfi Coast in the most typical and  charming hamlet of the town called “Rotoloâ€�.as a wonderful balcony overlooking the most charming Italian sea. The name “Rotoloâ€�comes  from the idea of the sun that “rollsâ€� over the hamlet from dawn to  setting . The  wide  and romantic view on the Amalfi Coast,  its pleasant  microclimate, attracted, in  pre-Renaissance time, the Neapolitan aristocracy that built the most representative summer villas in this hamlet You  can reach the villa from  town by  a half mile  lay road  that winds up  over looking an emerald sea and the Lattari mountain’s peaks under a row of secular plan-trees.

Villa Amalia is  built on  three levels for one total internal surface of meters square 600.
On the ground floor  to which you can access from the municipal road there are :  a wide entrance with rear premises laundry and a bath, a drawing-room-study with rear wine cellar and  a play room with a billiard table.
A marble staircase leads up to the first floor  with another access road  through the villa’s park; it has a entrance space with direct  access to the swimming pool, a  wide hall in Rose Portuguese  marble and a Crystalline of Greece made precious by zecchino gold putties; a characteristic bathroom made in baked, brass and china (porcelain), a wide kitchen furnished with ceramics and wood massello, with annexed bath and larder, all enriched by a great fireplace.
From the inside, thanks to a wide suspended staircase, in the main central hall, it is possible reach the second floor, or from the upper terraces served by an arc staircase  that soars high above the swimming pool.
The  external spaces of Villa Amalia  offers  guests an atmosphere  of unique  beauty. The paths are  paved with  light grey marble and in the park you can admire a variety of century old  exotic cicas trees  offering a riot  of colours and smells. The water of the large swimming-pool  has the colour of the sea  because it is   wholly  made of white  marble.The second floor has four bedrooms furnished in eighteenth-century style, complete of four inner baths and two large terraces with a fantastic sight on the Amalfi coast.

The  Villa  Amalia  rooms have got  wooden  arch  doors  and the walls are  warm and  bright coloured  with  17th  century old stuccos. In the hall there are a  variety of 17th century old frames finely decorated  with  pure gold  leaves. These precious details  with 17th century old pieces of furniture , the lighting  mainly consisting of old candelabra  , the precious 17th  century old  paintings make “Villa Amalia â€� a unique tourist structure  which can be  their ideal accommodation  for the most demanding guests .

In   Villa  Amalia, while breathing  the breeze of the sea , you feel as having left at home  all anxieties and finding yourself in a silent comfortable and timeless atmosphere where  everything  seems to belong  to a  fantastic dream.