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Positano is a small town on the Amalfi Coast (Costiera Amalfitana), in Campania, Italy. The main part of the city sits in an enclave in the hills leading down to the coast. Image File history File links Positano-Stemma. ...
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The Regions of Italy were granted a degree of regional autonomy in the 1948 constitution, which states that the constitutions role is: to recognize, protect and promote local autonomy, to ensure that services at the State level are as decentralized as possible, and to adapt the principles and laws...
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In Italy, a province (in Italian: provincia) is an administrative division of intermediate level between municipality (comune) and region (regione). ...
Salerno (Italian: Provincia di Salerno) is a province in the Campania region of Italy. ...
Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Time zones of Europe: Light colours indicate countries not observing summer time Central European Time (CET) is one of the names of the time zone that is 1 hour ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. ...
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A demonym or gentilic is a word that denotes the members of a people or the inhabitants of a place. ...
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A frazione, in Italy, is the name given in administrative law to a type of territorial subdivision of a comune; for other subdivisions, see municipio, circoscrizione, quartiere. ...
June 15 is the 166th day of the year (167th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
The Amalfi Coast The Amalfi Coast, or Costiera Amalfitana in Italian, is a stretch of coastline on the southern side of the Sorrentine Peninsula of Italy (Province of Salerno) extending from Positano in the west to Vietri sul Mare in the east. ...
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Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1600x1200, 401 KB) Positanos busy beach. ...
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History Positano was a prosperous port of the Amalfi Republic in the 16th and 17th centuries. But by the mid-19th century, the town had fallen on hard times. More than half the population emigrated, mostly to the United States of America. Amalfi is a town and commune in the province of Salerno, in the region of Campania, Italy, on the Gulf of Salerno, 24 miles southeast of Naples. ...
Positano was a relatively poor fishing village during the first half of the 20th century. It began to attract large numbers of tourists in the 1950s, especially after John Steinbeck published his essay about Positano in Harper's Bazaar in May, 1953: "Positano bites deep", Steinbeck wrote. "It is a dream place that isn’t quite real when you are there and becomes beckoningly real after you have gone." (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999...
John Ernst Steinbeck (February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968) was one of the best-known and most widely read American writers of the 20th century. ...
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1953 (MCMLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday. ...
Today tourism is the major industry in Positano.
Main sights The church of Santa Maria Assunta features a dome made of majolica tiles. hazzah hazzah Majolica is earthenware with a white tin glaze, decorated by applying colorants on the raw glazed surface. ...
Culture Positano has been featured in several films, including Only You (1994), starring Marisa Tomei and Robert Downey Jr., and Under the Tuscan Sun (2003), starring Diane Lane. It also hosts the annual Cartoons on the Bay Festival, at which Pulcinella awards for excellence in animation are presented. From July of 1967 and through most of the 1970s, Positano was home of singer-songwriter Shawn Phillips and was where most of his best known work was composed. His song "Landscape" recounts a taxi ride through Positano. Only You is a 1994 film starring Marisa Tomei, Robert Downey Jr. ...
Marisa Tomei (born December 4, 1964) is an Academy Award-winning American film and stage actress. ...
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Under the Tuscan Sun is a 1996 novel by American author Frances Mayes. ...
Diane Lane (born January 22, 1965) is an Academy Award-nominated American actress. ...
Pulcinella, often called Punch in English, is a classical character that originated in the Commedia dellarte of the 17th century and became a stock character in Neapolitan puppetry. ...
Animation is the rapid display of a sequence of images of 2-D artwork or model positions in order to create an illusion of movement. ...
He helped define folk-rock in the sixties and progressive-new-age rock in the seventies. ...
Positano's beach from the roadway. Today, Positano is considered one of the most chic destinations in Europe. Two of its hotels, Il San Pietro and Le Sirenuse, are frequently cited as among the best in the world. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1600x1200, 632 KB) View from the roadway that leads down and into the town. ...
Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1600x1200, 632 KB) View from the roadway that leads down and into the town. ...
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