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 The apartment is centrally located in Positano, just one step far from the beach and from a small romantic harbour that is perfect for excursions to Capri, Sorrento, Amalfi, Naples and Salerno. All best restaurants are close by and there is also one of the most exclusive European 3-floor discotheque, with piano bar, restaurant and, 13 stairs down, a very exclusive vinery. |
 But what really makes Villa Costanzo unique, except the location, is the fact that the famous American novelist, story writer, playwright, and essayist, John Steinbeck, lived in this house between 1953 and 1961. So he left the house just one year before receiving the Noble Prize for Literature. |
 In this house he wrote a very beautiful article, talking about Positano, in which he describes the first time he saw this beautiful village, as follows:
"... Positano bites deep. It is a dream place that isn't quite real when you are there and becomes beckoningly real after you have gone. Its houses climb a hill so steep it would be a cliff except that stairs are cut in it. I believe that whereas most house foundation are vertical, in Positano they are horizontal. The small curving hay of unbelievably blue and green water lips gently on a beach of small pebbles. There is only one narrow street and it does not come down to the water. Everything else is stairs, some of them as steep as ladders. You do not walk to visit a friend, you either climb or slide..."
(From Harper's Bazaar, May 1953). |
After this article, for the forty-fifth anniversary of his arrival in Positano, the village decided to show on the facade of Villa Costanzo a ceramic tile to testify that John Steinbeck used to live and work in that house...and we are proud of that! |
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