Notes from the host
Villa Amalia Resort
VILLA AMALIA is situated in the town of Cava de’ Tirreni 23 miles from international airport of Naples and 10 Miles from Salerno airport .
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 ancient Villa Amalia is located in a privileged position on the Amalfi Coast in the most typical and charming hamlet of the town called “Rotolo” has a wonderful balcony overlooking the most charming Italian sea. The name “Rotolo”comes from the idea of the sun that “rolls” 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 disposed on three levels for one total internal surface of 700 meters square.
On the first level there is a wide income with rear premises laundry and bath, a drawing-room-study with rear wine cellar, and a playroom with billiard . The second floor has an access road through the villa’s park or from the first level thanks to a marble staircase; it has a income space with direct access to the swimming pool, a wide hall in Rose Portuguese marble and Crystalline of Greece , a studio and alcove with bath; a wide kitchen fully furnished with ceramics and wood Massello, with annexed bath and larder, all enriched by a great fireplace. From the inside, thanks to a suspended staircase, in the main central hall, it is possible reach the second floor, or from the upper balconies, served by an arc staircase that soars high above the swimming pool. At main floor there is one bedroom with ensuite bathroom suitable and wheelchair accessible with direct access to pool, garden and patio with a full furnished kitchenette.
The second floor has four bedrooms furnished in eighteenth-century style with ensuite bathrooms, smart TVs with internet access, AC conditioners and two large terraces with a fantastic sight on the Amalfitan coast and city center..
Villa Amalia offers to its visitors a extensive park covered with cicas, boucanville and other countless tropical plants and Mediterranean flowers which embellish the big swimming pool made in white Carrara marble, with the external park furnished in wrought iron tables and the characteristic ancestral chapel sets in the rock. In addiction, in external area is located wellness area with an Hot Tub suitable for 7 guests, Finnish Sauna for 2 guests and Tapì Roulant.
In particular, Villa Amalia boasts of its wonderful panorama coloured by the green of the mountains the blue of the sea, and by the view of the country houses and the nineteenth-century residences.
Coming into Villa Amalia, glancing at the luminous glass doors, the innumerable peacock-tail arches, the vauts, the valuable gold stuccos and the ceramic and marbled floor, seems have left anxiety and have found oneself in a gentle and timeless dimension.
What Villa Amalia aims to offer their clients is a life style, in other words the possibility of living and getting to know the habits and customs of the local population spending a holiday in a Villa that presents Italian tradition and Amalfitan Coast history.
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Hosted byAmalia Adinolfi
