Bar DeMartino - Positano

 

 

The TERRACE of BAR DeMARTINO

Where I Once Sat

Drinking CAMPARI OJ or ESPRESSO

 

Once Upon A Time in Positano on the Amalfi Coast not so long ago there was the Bar Di Martino on the curve of Punta Reginella with one of the most scenic panoramas this village of breathtaking panoramas has to offer. Breakfast-lunch-cocktails and late night gathernigs brought together visitors from around the world and local residents in a perennially festive mood to see and be seen. To discuss and argue and create new friendships and appointments for the day and the weeks ahead.

 

 

The Via Pasitea

Bar De MARTINO

 We knew this a little while ago with a message we did not even believe. E 'died Ciro De Martino, the owner of the homonymous bar in Via Pasitea (where is now the Cafè Positano) that was considered the "good retreat" of artists, writers, intellectuals. The "world" of culture and the real "aficionados" of the pearl of the Amalfi coast "recognized" in this place where time flowed with the slow rhythms typical of that atmosphere of timeless Mediterranean places. Here you happened to meet the great showman, like the poet Gregory Corso (pictured) or artists like Ibrahim Kodra and beyond. You could stretch out from the nightlife of the big beach, then very busy for the by night, climb to "La Scalinatella" and drinking a gin and tonic the time passed chatting until dawn, between adventures and winking, reflections or discussions, a guitar playing and two laughs, when Ciro churned out the hot croissants and, without ever complaining about a presence beyond the maximum term of common tolerance, you could taste them at sunrise. . I remember when he told me about the Beatles, who still owed him something for drinking a latch, or the many artists and painters Hundertwasser, Corsa, Lieto, Rudi and Vali ...... Peter Thomson .. He, like the many operators of the past, with a big heart and hands incalled by the hard and honest work of a life, he always welcomed everyone with kindness and humanity. From his bar passed and met the world .. so many stories, unfortunately, we can not hear them anymore ... Now Ciro, who ended his days in his little house in Praiano down the stairs of Gavitella, in the "heart" of the coast of Amalfi, it's not anymore.

     

TERRACE of BAR DiMARTINO

Sadly is No More

It's Now BAR POSITANO

A Much Differrent Place

Me at BAR De MARTINO

#POSITANO


Summer 1986


My 2nd TRIP to The AMALFI COAST

   

   

FISH and BOYS of POSITANO

   

MANGIA ITALIANO

MEMORIES of ITALIANO

and PLACES TOO




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At PIAZZA d POPLO

ROME

May 2018

The Twin Churches SANTA MARIA

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