The Hotel Luna Convento was orginally a convent built by St. Francis of Assisi in 1222. It was the first building to be operated as a hotel on the Amalfi Coast in 1821 by the Barbaro family. That's what made me interested in this hotel, the name of the owners. My mother's maiden name is the same, so I had to book this hotel. Names don't make a hotel, but the Luna Convento is worthy of anyone's desires. A full service hotel, right above the Amalfi Drive, overlooking the sea. Quiet and subdued elegance within.
Beautiful and spectacular views from the balcony of the room, from the restaurant patio, and from the seaside pool and bar that sits across the road on the ocean front. The hotel sits about two blocks above the main square in Amalfi.