Cloister
We stayed in an
ex-monastery, with a Moresque cloister, enclosing a pleasant small garden decorated
with gorgeous flowers. Our rooms, once monks' cells, were equipped with modern
comforts and all had the view on the blue glittering sea...
Friederich Preller 1860
I saw the cathedral and the streets of Amalfi, I slept in an ancient monastery,
the Hotel Luna, and I would have stayed a long time on the terrace looking at the
ships' lights shining on the silky sea...
Simone de Beauvoir 1960