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Film & books in Procida

A film from 1994 and a novel from 1957 built this island’s image. The pages that explain where it was shot and what has remained.

Museums

The horseshoe bay of the Pozzo Vecchio, the set of Il Postino

Free admission

Pozzo Vecchio Beach

The bay where Troisi recited Neruda: small, horseshoe-shaped, in the middle of open country. A short but steep descent and almost no shade.

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Neighbourhoods

Marina Corricella

The oldest fishing village on the island, an amphitheatre of pastel houses on the water: no cars, four stairways to come down and the tables on the quay.

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Hotels

The pastel houses of Procida seen from above, with the dome of the Madonna delle Grazie

Hotel La Corricella

Nine rooms looking over the fishermen’s village, with an in-house restaurant and a 24-hour reception. You get there only on foot, by the steps: it is not for everybody.

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Breakfast served on the terrace of La Casa sul Mare, looking over the bay of Corricella

Hotel La Casa sul Mare

Ten rooms in an eighteenth-century noble palazzo, all with a sea view and a private terrace, above Corricella. The Procida postcard, seen from breakfast.

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Festivals & events

The harbour at Marina Grande, where the ferries and hydrofoils dock in Procida

In June, for about five days

The literary festival that writes the island’s people

Procida Racconta

Free

Six authors spend days on the island, each gathers the story of one Procidan and turns it into a short story, read in public in front of the real person.

In June: the dates of the next edition have not been published yet

Free

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Guides

The horseshoe bay of Pozzo Vecchio, Procida

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The Il Postino locations in Procida

The locations of the 1994 film with Massimo Troisi and Philippe Noiret: where you actually go, how you get there and which attributions do not survive a check.

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