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The five villages of the Cinque Terre cling to the Ligurian coast with the tenacity of people who have always understood that the sea is both their livelihood and their escape route. The best way to visit them is still the one their founders used: from the water.

The sea still warm, the crowds long gone — the case for September on a coast that, in this month, returns briefly to itself. There is a fortnight on the Amalfi Coast, from roughly the tenth to the twenty-fifth of September, when the coast returns to its proper character. The August holidaymakers have gone home. The cruise ships have largely shifted their itineraries north. The day-tripper traffic from Naples and Salerno has thinned to a manageable trickle. The hotels — most s

Villas, yachts, and the Path of the Gods — Amalfi in the four weeks of the year that locals consider its proper season. The Amalfi Coast in late April is two things at once. It is a working coast — fishermen mending nets in the small harbours of Conca dei Marini and Praiano, lemon farmers tying the new growth to the chestnut poles that hold their pergolas — and it is a coast in the act of remembering, after a winter in which it has been almost entirely itself, that the season