Podere Sospeso

Furore’s terraces are called “sospesi”, suspended: narrow shelves of vines and lemons stacked up a cliff that drops straight to the sea. Podere Sospeso is the Amato family’s farm on one of them, a stone house with eight rooms, a cellar cut into the rock and a long table under an olive-wood pergola.

Rooms are modest, clean and a little rustic: whitewashed vaults, iron beds, hand-painted tiles, a window onto vines or sea. Garden rooms have their own door to the terraces; the Terrace Suite looks straight over the Gulf of Salerno. There is no television and nobody misses it.

Dinners are served at the long table by arrangement: pasta rolled that afternoon, rabbit from the next farm, lemons in everything, and wine from the cellar. In September and October guests are invited to pick grapes at dawn and press them in the old way. There are also cooking classes in the farmhouse kitchen and tastings in the cellar.

The farm runs on solar panels, composts, makes its own olive oil and limoncello and charges electric cars. It is a good place for walkers: the Path of the Gods starts nine kilometres away, and the Furore fjord, with its tiny beach, is down a lane of steps to the sea.