Easter week is a perfect period to visit Amalfi Coast thanks to the many possibilities offered by tour operators for short breaks and week-ends in hotels and b&bs.

You can deeply enjoy monuments, traditions, landscapes, nature of Amalfi Coast because there are less tourists than in summer. Weather is mild during Easter time and it is perfect to walk along Lattari Mountains that surmount Amalfi, Praiano, Positano. You can visit "Valle delle Ferriere", a beautiful natural reserve where there are many species of orchids and the Woodwardia radicans, a very rare plant that can be considered a "living fossil".

Easter time is the perfect moment to walk along the so-called "Sentiero degli Dei" (Path of Gods): it is 8 km long and landscapes are wonderful, they cannot be described but deserve a visit. From this path, you can admire the sea from a spectacular perspective.

Easter is the most important moment in the life of Christians and Amalfi Coast celebrates it with a great devotion. There are many touching moments during Easter week to celebrate the moment that changed the Western world.

Palm Sunday starts this important week and celebrates Jesus entering Jerusalem in triumph. In the churches of the coast, priests bless the olive branches. According to tradition, people then exchange the blessed branches as a sign of peace.

On Good Friday, a very touching day, passion and dead of Christ are recalled in many processions. In Amalfi people belonging to the various religious congregations perform a procession with the statues of Our Lady of Sorrows and the Dead Christ. This is a sad procession but leads people to think about human condition and the idea of death.

Easter Sunday celebrates the resurrection of Christ and Amalfi Coast celebrates this important moment also with gastronomy: Easter lunch represents a very important tradition and everywhere it is celebrated, from the most important restaurants to the humbles houses. There typical dishes of this period, such as the cake called "pastiera".