{"id":4909,"date":"2017-06-22T13:04:27","date_gmt":"2017-06-22T13:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/colourfuldreamer.com\/?p=4909"},"modified":"2019-09-03T00:07:09","modified_gmt":"2019-09-03T00:07:09","slug":"maratea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colourfuldreamer.com\/index.php\/2017\/06\/22\/maratea\/","title":{"rendered":"Maratea"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: symbol; font-size: 20px;\">Calma, dolce e gentile<\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: symbol; font-size: 20px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4926\" src=\"http:\/\/colourfuldreamer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_0006.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colourfuldreamer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_0006.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.colourfuldreamer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_0006-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.colourfuldreamer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_0006-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.colourfuldreamer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_0006-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.colourfuldreamer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_0006-705x529.jpg 705w, https:\/\/www.colourfuldreamer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_0006-987x740.jpg 987w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4916\" src=\"http:\/\/colourfuldreamer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/06180003.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colourfuldreamer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/06180003.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.colourfuldreamer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/06180003-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.colourfuldreamer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/06180003-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.colourfuldreamer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/06180003-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.colourfuldreamer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/06180003-705x470.jpg 705w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/colourfuldreamer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/06170036.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4911\" src=\"http:\/\/colourfuldreamer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/06170036.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colourfuldreamer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/06170036.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.colourfuldreamer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/06170036-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.colourfuldreamer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/06170036-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.colourfuldreamer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/06170036-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.colourfuldreamer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/06170036-705x470.jpg 705w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/colourfuldreamer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_0076.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4928\" src=\"http:\/\/colourfuldreamer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_0076.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colourfuldreamer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_0076.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/www.colourfuldreamer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_0076-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.colourfuldreamer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_0076-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.colourfuldreamer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_0076-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.colourfuldreamer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_0076-705x529.jpg 705w, https:\/\/www.colourfuldreamer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_0076-987x740.jpg 987w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: symbol; font-size: 20px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/colourfuldreamer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_9752.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4951\" src=\"http:\/\/colourfuldreamer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_9752.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colourfuldreamer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_9752.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.colourfuldreamer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_9752-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.colourfuldreamer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_9752-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.colourfuldreamer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_9752-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.colourfuldreamer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_9752-705x529.jpg 705w, https:\/\/www.colourfuldreamer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_9752-987x740.jpg 987w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/colourfuldreamer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_9763.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4960\" src=\"http:\/\/colourfuldreamer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_9763.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colourfuldreamer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_9763.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.colourfuldreamer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_9763-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.colourfuldreamer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_9763-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.colourfuldreamer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_9763-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.colourfuldreamer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_9763-705x529.jpg 705w, https:\/\/www.colourfuldreamer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_9763-987x740.jpg 987w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: symbol; font-size: 20px;\">Maratea was another spontaneous travel decision that I made literally one day before our flight. Since one week ago I had an operation, I was not quite sure if I should travel or not. Thinking about the chances that I might have in the future to visit the town of the 44 churches, I decided to take the risk and just do it!<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: symbol; font-size: 20px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/colourfuldreamer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_9832.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5006\" src=\"http:\/\/colourfuldreamer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_9832.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"2048\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colourfuldreamer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_9832.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.colourfuldreamer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_9832-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.colourfuldreamer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_9832-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.colourfuldreamer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_9832-705x940.jpg 705w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/colourfuldreamer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_9839.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5013\" src=\"http:\/\/colourfuldreamer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_9839.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"2048\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colourfuldreamer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_9839.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.colourfuldreamer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_9839-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.colourfuldreamer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_9839-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.colourfuldreamer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_9839-705x940.jpg 705w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"font-family: symbol; font-size: 20px;\">A weekend full of surprises<\/span><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: symbol; font-size: 20px;\">What I found really interesting on my trip was Maratea&#8217;s people. Genuinely authentic, lively, and extroverted, I think these people must be among the most warmly hospitable in the whole country<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: symbol; font-size: 20px;\">Surprisingly enough, I found out that the city is not only known for stunning sea views and sea creating steep cliffs. It is also known for an incredibly wide variety of landscapes such as wooded hillsides and dramatic mountains\u2019 sceneries<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: symbol; font-size: 20px;\">Asking what Maratea means I have been told that this name comes from a plant that in Greek we call \u039c\u03b1\u03c1\u03b1\u03b8\u03b9\u03ac\/ Marathea. Given that I am Greek, this was a real surprise to me<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: symbol; font-size: 20px;\">My next surprise came when I arrived at this village and the first thing that the taxi driver showed us was the statue of Christ of Maratea. It was built by a sculptor from Florence almost 50 years ago. Even that I have never been in Brazil before, I have seen many times in pictures their own statue of Christ. Pretty the same to be honest!<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: symbol; font-size: 20px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4913\" src=\"http:\/\/colourfuldreamer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/06170068.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1365\" height=\"2048\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colourfuldreamer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/06170068.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/www.colourfuldreamer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/06170068-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.colourfuldreamer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/06170068-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.colourfuldreamer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/06170068-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.colourfuldreamer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/06170068-705x1058.jpg 705w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1365px) 100vw, 1365px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: symbol; font-size: 20px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/colourfuldreamer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_9716.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4940\" src=\"http:\/\/colourfuldreamer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_9716.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"2048\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colourfuldreamer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_9716.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.colourfuldreamer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_9716-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.colourfuldreamer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_9716-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.colourfuldreamer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_9716-705x940.jpg 705w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: symbol; font-size: 20px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/colourfuldreamer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_0079.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4929\" src=\"http:\/\/colourfuldreamer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_0079.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colourfuldreamer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_0079.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/www.colourfuldreamer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_0079-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.colourfuldreamer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_0079-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.colourfuldreamer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_0079-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.colourfuldreamer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_0079-705x529.jpg 705w, https:\/\/www.colourfuldreamer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_0079-987x740.jpg 987w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: symbol; font-size: 20px;\">We had a lot of relaxing time on the rocky coastline of our hotel while reading our books and swimming. If you have never been in Maratea before you should definitely include this summertime place on your bucket list during this summer. The beautiful scenery and coastline will make you feel really awesome!<\/span><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: symbol; font-size: 20px;\"><strong>Top 5<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: symbol; font-size: 20px;\"><strong>Best place to stay:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hotelvilladellemeraviglie.com\/index.php\/en\/\">Hotel Villa delle Meraviglie<\/a>|Has its own private pool &amp; an amazing rocky \u201cbeach\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: symbol; font-size: 20px;\"><strong>What to see:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cristo_Redentore\">Christo Redentore<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: symbol; font-size: 20px;\"><strong>Where &amp; what to eat:<\/strong>\u00a0Lobster spaghetti| Pizza Napolitano<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: symbol; font-size: 20px;\"><strong>What to do:<\/strong> A boat tour | Coastline near Marina<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: symbol; font-size: 20px;\"><strong>To avoid:<\/strong>\u00a0Being impatient with the locals | instead try to adjust to their own culture<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: symbol; font-size: 20px;\"><em>Wearing: Miss Sefridges shoes&amp; jacket, Whistles\u00a0dress, Vintage Barroso bag<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calma, dolce e gentile Maratea was another spontaneous travel decision that I made literally one day before our flight. Since one week ago I had an operation, I was not quite sure if I should travel or not. Thinking about the chances that I might&nbsp;<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colourfuldreamer.com\/index.php\/2017\/06\/22\/maratea\/\">&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4921,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-destinations","category-italy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfuldreamer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfuldreamer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfuldreamer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfuldreamer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfuldreamer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4909"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfuldreamer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7319,"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfuldreamer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4909\/revisions\/7319"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfuldreamer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfuldreamer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfuldreamer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfuldreamer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}