Positano - rediscovered and re-visited. The article John Steinbeck published in Harper's Bazar made sure the number of visitors, in particular American, surged signifantly ever after. Some sentences he wrote seem to have become a heritage of Positano, and have been used over and over again to describe the essence of this "Vertical Citty" - la città verticale. Here is what are probablySteinbeck's most renowned words:
Positano bites deep. It is a dream place that isn’t quite real when you are there and becomes beckoningly real after you have gone. Its houses climb a hill so steep it would be a cliff except that stairs are cut in it. I believe that whereas most house foundations are vertical, in Positano they are
horizontal. The small curving bay of unbelievably blue and green water laps gently on a beach of small pebbles. There is only one narrow street and it does not come down to the water. Everything else is stairs, some of them as steep as ladders.
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| Positano seen from the Belvedere della Madonnina, above Fornillo |
In an article published by L'Isola Web, the Positano which John Steinbeck impressed so much when he arrived here in 1959, is described in a vivid manner. Click here to read more at L'Isola Web's "Positano al Tempo di John Steinbeck" (Italian).
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| Positano in the 1950s, by L'Isola Web |
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