Roads chiselled into cliffs, villages spilling down the rockface, some of Europe’s most lusted-over hotels and the Tyrrhenian Sea twinkling away, safe in the knowledge that nothing created by humans can ever outshine it. No wonder everyone loves the Amalfi Coast.

This year, that love will be even fiercer as attentions turn to the Bay of Naples, where, just off the Amalfi Coast, the tiny island of Procida has been named Italian Capital of Culture. What’s already a well-trodden corner of the country will be packed to the gills.