by Sangeeta Kocharekar URL Copied! Skip the tourist trap. We’re asking locals and well-versed folks only for their edit of the secret spots they visit time and time again. Marina Sersale is one of the best people to ask for travel tips for Positano on Italy’s Amalfi Coast.
During World War II, her family moved from Naples to Positano. They quickly realised it was a great place to live and so stayed even after the war ended. var VMDAdsTheLatch = window.
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The very best of The Latch delivered straight to your inbox. “I’ve been going to Positano basically since I was born,” Sersale says. “And my relation to it is visceral.
Positano is home and I feel it deeply mine.” Image: Getty Images Sersale is such a fan of the area that, alongside her Argentinian husband Sebastian Alvarez Murena, she c.