This Positano tourist map numbers 12 top sights, marks 3 hidden gems and traces a 1.6 km walking route from Viale Pasitea to Fornillo Beach. A second, unnumbered map follows the coast east from Positano to Vietri sul Mare.
Longer descriptions of every sight are on the page of tourist attractions in Positano.
Each number below is the same pin on the map, in the PDF and in the video. Numbers 1 to 7 follow the walking route downhill, from Viale Pasitea by Via dei Mulini to the church square, Spiaggia Grande and the cliff path to Fornillo. Numbers 8 to 12 lie outside it: the Path of the Gods and the hamlets of Nocelle and Montepertuso up the mountain, Spiaggia di Arienzo east along the coast road, and the Li Galli islets out at sea.
The 3 hidden gems, in orange, are churches, all inside the frame of the town map; the PDF adds a line and the address of each one.
Letters run west to east, from Positano (A) to Vietri sul Mare (N); a dashed box frames the town map.
A. Positano. The town of the map above, rising in pastel tiers from Spiaggia Grande.
B. Praiano. Next town east, known for sunsets, majolica shrines and the cove of Marina di Praia.
C. Agerola. Plateau town outside the 13 comuni; the Path of the Gods leaves its hamlet of Bomerano.
D. Furore. Called the village that is not there, its houses scattered up the slope.
E. Conca dei Marini. Former fishing village holding the Emerald Grotto and, by tradition, the first Santa Rosa sfogliatella.
F. Amalfi. Once a maritime republic, it gave the coast its name; see the Amalfi tourist map and the Amalfi tourist attractions.
G. Atrani. Italy's smallest comune by area, in a cove a short walk east of Amalfi.
H. Scala. Faces Ravello from a ridge above Amalfi; tradition calls it the coast's oldest town.
I. Ravello. Villa Rufolo, which inspired Wagner in 1880, and the Terrace of Infinity at Villa Cimbrone.
J. Minori. Below Ravello, with its Basilica of Santa Trofimena and a name for handmade pasta.
K. Maiori. Close to a kilometre of sand, the coast's longest beach.
L. Tramonti. Inland, 13 hamlets across the Lattari Mountains and a long line of pizza makers.
M. Cetara. A tuna fleet and colatura di alici, an anchovy sauce aged in wooden casks.
N. Vietri sul Mare. Next to Salerno, the town of hand-painted ceramics.
Ferry lines, drawn schematically, leave Spiaggia Grande east for Amalfi and Salerno and, in season, west for Capri, Sorrento and Naples.
What to do in Positano and on the Amalfi Coast fills five A4 pages. The first carries the town map with its legend, getting around and the licence. Pages 2 and 3 give the 12 top sights with addresses and photo credits, then the 3 hidden gems and six neighbourhoods. Page 4 holds the coast map with towns A to L, and page 5 the last two towns, the footpaths and onward travel. In English. Edition: November 2026.
Start of a 1.6 km (1.0 miles) route, about 35 min on foot counting the steps, visits not included. It begins on the first bend of the road below the SITA stop of Chiesa Nuova, among shops, hotels and terraces over the pastel houses. Lanes and steps drop 0.7 km by Piazza dei Mulini to Via dei Mulini.
A pedestrian lane of Moda Positano linen and cotton, painted ceramics and limoncello, where sandal makers cut and stitch pairs to measure. Palazzo Murat, at number 23 and now a hotel, shows its courtyard garden. The lane ends on Piazza Flavio Gioia, where the MAR is at number 7.
Under the parish church lies a Roman villa buried by Vesuvius in 79 AD, its triclinium painted in the fourth Pompeian style. First described in 1758, excavated in campaigns from 2004 and opened as a museum in 2018, it is ticketed separately from the church, a few steps away.
Free to enter, under the yellow, green and blue majolica dome. The church grew out of a medieval Benedictine abbey and took its present form between 1777 and 1782; above the altar hangs the Byzantine icon of the Black Madonna. Spiaggia Grande is just below.
About 300 metres of grey pebbles, with a free public stretch beside the beach clubs. Ferries and shuttle boats leave from its pier, and the Li Galli islets lie out to sea to the south-west. From the western end, Via Positanesi d'America leads 0.4 km onto the cliff.
Named after the townspeople who emigrated across the Atlantic, the paved path hangs between rock and sea and passes right under Torre Trasita, a watchtower against Saracen raids that is now a private home. Fornillo is 0.3 km on.
The second largest beach in Positano, framed by Torre Trasita and Torre di Fornillo, which the Swiss writer Gilbert Clavel restored in the early 20th century. Beach bars rent loungers, a free section remains, and shuttle boats call here too.
Positano is a town of steps. The 7 stops cover 1.6 km, about 35 min with the gradient and without the visits, and most of the way runs downhill; the longest leg, 0.7 km, drops from Viale Pasitea to Via dei Mulini.
There is no metro and no railway station. SITA Sud buses on the Amalfi, Positano and Sorrento line call at two stops on the coast road, Positano (Sponda) and Positano (Chiesa Nuova), going west to Sorrento or east through Praiano to Amalfi, the change for Ravello, Salerno and Agerola. A local bus climbs to Montepertuso and Nocelle.
Sights outside the walking route:
Four ways to spend part of a day in Positano starting from Naples, each with free time in town: about an hour on the coach trip with an audio guide, which then crosses to Amalfi by ferry; an hour on the minivan trip that also stops in Sorrento, Amalfi and Ravello; a stop on the small group trip with a live guide before a seasonal speedboat to Amalfi; and one of the two guaranteed stops of the boat tour along the coast.
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Six Creative Commons photos appear in the PDF and the video, each credited to its author: Viale Pasitea, "Vista di Positano Campania" by Wolfgang Moroder, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0; Via dei Mulini and Palazzo Murat, "Via dei Mulini am Palazzo Murat Hotel 6" by Rudolfo Kithera, licensed under CC0; MAR Positano, "Villa Romana di Positano" by MaR Positano, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0; Path of the Gods, "Sentiero degli Dei 17 Campania" by Wolfgang Moroder, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0; Nocelle, "Nocelle" by Ugeorge, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0; Montepertuso and Il Pertuso, "Montepertuso - panoramio" by Mika Auramo, licensed under CC BY 3.0.
Credit to copy: Positano Tourist Map by World Tourist Office, touristoffice.org/positano-tourist-map/, CC BY 4.0. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors.
For the coast map: Amalfi Coast Tourist Map by World Tourist Office, touristoffice.org/positano-tourist-map/, CC BY 4.0. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Four ways to spend part of a day in Positano starting from Naples, each with free time in town: about an hour on the coach trip with an audio guide, which then crosses to Amalfi by ferry; an hour on the minivan trip that also stops in Sorrento, Amalfi and Ravello; a stop on the small group trip with a live guide before a seasonal speedboat to Amalfi; and one of the two guaranteed stops of the boat tour along the coast.
