People are interested in this beach for one reason only, and it is right to say so straight away: Il Postino was filmed here. In 1994 Massimo Troisi, as Mario Ruoppolo, recited Neruda’s poems to Beatrice on this sand, with Philippe Noiret in the role of the poet. Since then the bay has been called the Postino beach even by people born here. The rest is a small horseshoe-shaped inlet on the north-west coast, below the municipal cemetery, closed off by Punta Serra to the south and Punta Ottimo to the north. Around it there is open country and a small bar. There is nothing else, and that is half its appeal and half its limitation.
How you get there: C1 bus, or twenty minutes on foot
You go down from Via Cesare Battisti, beyond the municipal cemetery. From the harbour there are two ways: the C1 bus line, which does exactly harbour–Pozzo Vecchio beach–harbour, or about twenty minutes on foot from Marina Grande. The bus ticket costs 1.20 EUR bought on the ground, in a bar or a tobacconist, and 1.40 EUR on board.
The last part is stepped
From the cemetery road down to the sand you go down a stairway. How many steps there are nobody knows: no source publishes a count and we are not inventing one. What can be said is that it is a short but steep descent. Genuinely short: it has nothing to do with the roughly 180 steps at the Chiaia. Steep enough to think twice about if you have delicate knees or a full cool box.
There is no vehicle access down to the sand: the car or the scooter, when you are allowed to use them, stays on the road up above. And from 30 March to 15 October 2026 non-residents may not land vehicles on the island in any case, so for most readers the question does not arise: you get there by bus. The details are on the page about getting around Procida.
What is left of the film
Little, and it is honest to warn you. There is no museum, there is no monumental plaque, there is no reconstruction of the set. There is the bay, which has stayed as it was: the same curve of sand, the same arc of rocks, the same empty horizon. Anyone arriving hoping for a theme park comes away disappointed; anyone arriving having seen the film recognises the framing in ten seconds and understands why they chose it.
The Postino beach is one of the fixed stops for anyone going round the island following the cinema: the full itinerary, with the Corricella playing the village in the film, is on our page about the Il Postino locations on Procida. If you are coming for the photographs, the best light is the late afternoon, when the sun goes down over the open sea in front of the bay.
Coarse sand, little shade, open sea
The sand is volcanic and is described as very coarse: coarser than the Chiaiolella’s, less comfortable to lie on without an air bed. The bay is natural, horseshoe-shaped, and that shelters it a little from the sides, but it still faces the open sea on the north-western side.
The real limitation: shade
Here there is almost no shade, and there is nothing around to make any. No pine, no cliff that covers it, no town two steps away to take refuge in during the middle of the day. The bar is small. In the middle of August, between midday and three, this beach is hard. It is better made into an early morning or a late afternoon beach: two or three hours, not a whole day.
The setting, though, is one the island’s other beaches do not have: open country behind, no seafront promenade, no rows of parasols as far as the eye can see. Anyone after silence finds it here more than at the Chiaiolella.
One beach club and no price list
The beach is for the most part free. There is one beach club, the Lido Annamaria Pozzovecchio. We are publishing neither its prices nor a telephone contact because they are not confirmed by any reliable source: as on every beach on Procida, the 2026 prices for parasols and sunbeds are not published and have to be asked for on the spot, before you settle in.
For food, on the beach there is the bar and that is all. For a proper lunch you go back towards the harbour or down to the south-western side, where the seafront at the Chiaiolella concentrates the restaurants and pizzerias: Da Mariano is one of the long-standing addresses on that sea front. The other addresses on the island, divided by area, are in the guide to Procida’s restaurants.
If you want to see the bay from the right side, that is from the sea, the boat trips round the island pass in front of the Pozzo Vecchio and stop for a swim: it is the framing the film made famous, seen from where the camera saw it.
