Cloister Room
From$540 / night
A former cell, now rather more comfortable, opening onto the colonnade.
- Size
- 42 m²
- Sleeps
- 2
- Bed
- Queen
- View
- Cloister garden
- Vaulted ceiling
- Cloister access
- Marble bath
- Original tilework
Above Praiano, Campania · Italy
Solandra Amalfi
Lemon terraces stacked above the Tyrrhenian
A restored convent and its garden, three hundred metres above the water, reached by a funicular cut into the cliff.
The building was a Carthusian convent from 1541 until Napoleon dissolved it. It spent the next century as a lemon farm, and the terraces are still worked.
Restoration took six years and involved rather more archaeologists than architects. The cloister, the cistern, and the frescoed refectory are all original.
The lemons are sfusato amalfitano, and they go into everything: the granita, the oil, and about four hundred litres of limoncello a year.
- Villas
- 24
- Opened
- 2021
- Rates from
- $540 a night
- Getting here
- 75 minutes by car from Naples Capodichino, or 40 minutes by boat from Salerno.
Accommodation
4 categories, 24 keys
Sea Room
From$780 / night
West-facing, with shutters that open onto two hundred kilometres of water.
- Size
- 58 m²
- Sleeps
- 2
- Bed
- King
- View
- Tyrrhenian Sea
- Sea-facing terrace
- Soaking tub
- Shuttered loggia
- Sunset outlook
Lemon Terrace Suite
From$1150 / night
On the working terraces, under the pergola, among the trees.
- Size
- 96 m²
- Sleeps
- 4
- Bed
- King + sofa bed
- View
- Lemon groves and sea
- Private pergola
- Plunge pool
- Two bathrooms
- Outdoor kitchen
The Prior's House
From$2280 / night
The oldest part of the convent, with its own cistern courtyard and frescoed ceiling.
- Size
- 210 m²
- Sleeps
- 6
- Bed
- 2 kings + twin
- View
- Coast and cloister
- Three bedrooms
- Private courtyard
- Fresco ceiling
- Chef on request
Dining
Where you will eat
Campanian
Refettorio
Under the restored frescoes. Pasta made each morning, fish landed at Praiano, and nothing at all imported.
Dinner, 19:30 – 23:00
All day, terrace
La Limonaia
Breakfast and long lunches under the lemon pergola, with the sea doing the rest.
07:30 – 18:00
Wine cellar
Cisterna
The convent's water cistern, now holding eleven hundred bottles, most of them from Campania.
18:00 – late
Experiences
What there is to do, and what there is not
