With more than 4,700 miles of coastline, Italy has no shortage of beaches - but the most celebrated are to be found on the Amalfi Coast.
"With its cornice roads that wind along towering cliffs", says the Daily Telegraph, this stretch of the southern Sorrentine peninsula is also home to some of the best hotels in the Mediterranean.
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