“…The former -Conca dei Marini, Furore, Praiano and Positano -are located high up, above rocky walls that plunge into the sea. Instead, Amalfi and those on the eastern side -Atrani, Maiori, Minori, Cetara -up to Vietri, arrange themselves at the mouth of streams, overlooking the beach and occupying the same sides of the valley in which the waters flow [21]. Thus sets of valley floors are configured, crossed by a stream, today covered becoming the main road, with the buildings arranged on the lateral slopes, reachable by stairways, sometimes with a frightening inclination and dark underpasses.…”