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A gastronomic atlas — the eleven Italian restaurants currently holding three Michelin stars, and how to assemble a journey around them. The high gastronomic geography of Italy, in the current Michelin guide, consists of eleven three-starred restaurants. They are scattered across the peninsula in a pattern that bears a certain logic — Piedmont and Lombardy in the north, two in the Dolomites, one each in Tuscany, Umbria, the Roman countryside, the Amalfi Coast, the Tyrrhenian,

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