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This tiny inn of six rooms (plus one apartment sleeping up to four) in medieval palazzo is owned by the same seven siblings who run the Hotel Amalfi.
It gets its first "star" for three reasons.
(1) It's as central as can be, located in the tangle of streets just across from the cathedral and five minutes from the beach. Rooms have balconies overlooking the rooftops of town (sometimes with a glimpse of the sea beyond).
(2) It's sumptuously furnished: gilded scrollwork on the bed frames, richly upholstered sofas and chairs, modest chandeliers, all of it a wonderful hodgepodge of reproduction eras and styles that give it a homey feel.
(3) It has a strong feel for local history. It's in a thousand-year-old building (though much of what you see dates "only" to the 13th and 14th centuries), and each room is named for a different notable personage from Amalfi history—small wonder, since it sits on the same street where the Dukes of Amalfi once lived.
It gets the second "star" for charging laughably low rates. Double rooms at the Residenza del Duca start at €70 in low season, or €120 at the height of summer. That's simply unheard of in Amalfi—even for a backpacker flophouse, let alone a place where you feel like you're in your own luxurious rooms.
» bookVia Mastaio Il Duca (just west of the Duomo), Amalfi
tel. +39-089-873-6365
www.residencedelduca.it
Closed Jan 6–Feb
€€€
» book
Planning your time: You could see every official "sight" in the town of Amalfi in 60–90 minutes—though it is a lovely place to relax for a while, maybe take a cappuccino on the piazza overlooking the steps up to the Duomo.
Amalfi also makes an ideal place to spend the night. It has several good restaurants, and the town is just large enough to keep the feeling that there's a bit of local life beyond the tourism, making it a joy to wander (the others—Positano and Ravello especially, may be more postcard-quaint and pretty, but Amalfi feels more real).
Besides, it is the one place on the Amalfi Coast where you have to switch buses—either to return west up the coast toward Postiano and Sorrento, to made a side trip up to pretty Ravello, or to continue east along the coast to Salerno.
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