This story appeared in the July-August 2025 issue of Newcity.
The Amalfi Coast is a breathtaking waterfront in Southern Italy about seventy-five miles south of Naples with seaside cliffs that recall Highway One along Big Sur in Northern California. I drove the coast in the summer of 2008. I stopped in the sunlit village of Sorrento and discovered a large lemon and orange grove in the center of town. I drove by Sophia Loren’s house. I learned that scenes from Federico Fellini’s 1972 film “Roma” were shot along the Amalfi Coast. Felliini recalled growing up in a fascist regime with metaphors soaking young protesters like a hard rain.
These days big shots like George Clooney, Mick Jagger and Beyoncé sip on limoncello in trattorias along the thirty-four-mile Amalfi Coast that incorporates nearly one-hundred beaches along the bright blue Gulf of Salerno. I promised to return someday when I exceeded the speed limit in wide-eyed love. I haven’t yet.
But I’ll always have the Illinoia Coast.
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