Vietri!

View of Amalfi Coast from Shop Area - Notice also the ancient building in the forefront bottom and the italian clothes hanging to dry -- can you imagine this being your home?

Ceramiche Pot with Running Water

Handpainted pottery adorns each shop -- inviting you to come inside!

Vietri street - This famous city is full of tourists and locals. 

The ceramiche tiles are even on the street walls -
with every turn you discover something new and amazing!

One street lead right up to a beautiful church!

A beautiful fountain, amazing painted tiles,
and villa for an italian family in Vietri

The city Duomo peeks out above the
architecture

The Amalfi Coast - Amazing Beauty

Vietri is one of my favorite amalfi coast cities -- full of hand painted ceramiches - shop after shop after shop!  A shopper's paradise, really - it becomes overwhelming after about the 5th shop and you can't remember which design you liked best - or where it was located.  The town itself is situated towards the end of the amalfi coast.  You have to start your shopping day off with a cafe', and then away you go.  The shop owners are eager to show you their products, many of them are the artists themselves.  Beautiful, detailed and colorful works of art hang from every shop owners door enticing you to come inside.  Not many of the items are priced and the constant asking "Quanti Costa?"  or "How much is this?" is determined in a split second by the owners -- I always wonder if it's the same price for everyone who asks.... or how they can remember as there are hundreds of patterns and sizes and shapes of bowls, platters, plates, antipasti sets, tiles, urns, lamps, wall hangings - anything that can be painted.

With every turn, and down alley ways, other discoveries await you and your senses -- like the beautiful church that was nestled up at the top of a walkway - you have to explore, or you would have missed this!  Beautifully hand-painted tiles adorn the street walls with scenes of typical Italian motifs and daily routines.....

After about 15 shops, I had found my favorite, and of course the most expensive.  The owner could speak broken English, and with my broken Italian, we were able to communicate colors, designs, and patterns, ... and cost, of course.   A biscotti jar had my name on it - but I will wait until we move into our villa -- buying a piece of art, meeting the artist, traveling these streets -- it all provides the memory that goes along with the art piece.   It gives "Made in Italy" an entirely new mindset.  I will return to Vietri soon.  It was a great day......