Gems of the Mediterranean Sea - Procida

I am a big fan of Italy, I love their food, wine, history, music, arts, architecture and most of all their entire hedonistic lifestyle, "La Dolce Vita". This is a really wonderful country with all sorts of landscapes from high, rocky mountains to breath-taking beaches and seasides. I love walking on the ancient, cobble-stoned streets and watch locals sipping their coffee and discussing matters of life. I love the adorable markets and the tiny little shops as well as the checkered-clothed tables on the streets in front of restaurants...

Back in 2008, I had a chance to visit the islands and coastline in the Gulf of Salerno during an amazing trip with a small sailing boat. It was really great, one of the best excursions of my life. You have a totally different view of these little towns and villages if you look at them from the sea. It is really amazing how high they have built houses up on the rocks. Though it was a long time ago, I can still vividly remember the picturesque towns, the wonderful view of the horizon, the squeaking sound of the seagulls, the incomparable smell of salty water and the gorgeous taste of Italian red wine. I would like to share these memories with you in this series of posts. (Sorry, blame it on the winter that I became nostalgic and started to watch holiday photos... 😊😊😊)

I have found this map here, it shows basically all the places I have visited and going to talk about in this series:

In this series I already wrote

• three posts about Amalfi (you can read them here, here and here),
• one about Positano (you can read that one here)
• two about Capri (you can read them here and here),
• one about Sorrento (you can read it here) and
• two about Pompei (you can read them here and here).

We are - unfortunately - close to the end of the journey, but I still have a few nice stops to show you. This post is about a small island called Procida (pronounced as pro-chi-da), a very colourful spot on Amalfi Coast. Many movie directors produced some of the scenes of their films​ here, eg. both in The Postman and in The Talented Mr. Ripley we may see a few shots from this island.

As we were arriving there in the evening we didn't have much time to explore it but we could make a few nice photos and all agreed that this is definitely a place that would worth a second visit.

This is how you first get to see it from the water:

Getting closer it gets more and more beautiful...

We have visited the fortress on the top of the hill quickly and needed to leave as it got darker and darker...

We had a fascinating sunset on that evening... (the last photo is my favourite 😊):