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Southern Europe · The Italian & French Coasts

Amalfi & the Rivieras

A private villa above Positano, a yacht along the Côte d'Azur, and a truffle hunt in the Umbrian hills — the Mediterranean at its most effortless.

Best Season
May – June · September
Journey Style
Private · Villa · Yacht

The Mediterranean coast has been the stage for the good life for a century, and for good reason. Here the pleasures are simple and absolute — a lemon grove, a long lunch, the sea changing colour as the afternoon turns.

This journey strings together the finest of the Italian and French coasts, with a villa to call home and a yacht to widen the horizon.

Access · Not Itinerary

Signature Moments

The coast's quiet pleasures, arranged privately.

A villa above Positano
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A villa above Positano

Wake to the town tumbling toward the sea from the terrace of a private villa, breakfast laid in the morning light.

A yacht on the Côte d'Azur
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A yacht on the Côte d'Azur

A crewed yacht carries you between Cap Ferrat and the calanques, lunch and swims on your own schedule.

A truffle hunt in Umbria
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A truffle hunt in Umbria

Into the oak woods with a hunter and his dogs, followed by a long lunch built around the morning's find.

Common Questions

Questions, answered.

May to June and September offer warm seas and golden light without the August crowds — the connoisseur's seasons.

Yes — the yacht is yours alone, with full crew, for the French coast portion of the journey.

Easily. The journey extends naturally to Tuscany, the Italian Lakes or Saint-Tropez at your advisor's hand.

Staying in a private villa above Positano means waking to the town tumbling toward the sea from your own terrace, with breakfast laid in the morning light. The villa is your home on the Italian coast. Its pleasures are simple and absolute: a lemon grove, a long lunch, the sea changing colour as the afternoon turns.

Positano is famous; knowing how to be there well is not. On this Amalfi and Rivieras journey that means a private launch instead of a queue for the road, a trattoria that holds your table by name, and an after-hours hour at a closed church. The Italian and French coasts both reward the quietly insistent, and your advisor knows the doors on both shores.

On the French Riviera, a crewed yacht carries you between Cap Ferrat and the calanques. Lunch and swims follow your own schedule rather than a fixed itinerary. The yacht is yours alone, with full crew, for the French coast portion of the journey, widening the horizon after the villa days on the Italian coast.

The truffle hunt in Umbria takes you into the oak woods with a hunter and his dogs. Afterward comes a long lunch built around the morning's find. It brings the journey inland from the Amalfi Coast and the Côte d'Azur into the Umbrian hills, adding a countryside moment to the Mediterranean's coastal pleasures.

Yes. The Amalfi and Rivieras journey strings together the finest of the Italian and French coasts. On the Italian side, a private villa above Positano is your home; on the French side, a crewed yacht sails between Cap Ferrat and the calanques. An inland moment follows in the Umbrian hills with a truffle hunt. Both coasts reward the quietly insistent, and a single advisor knows the doors on both shores.

On the Amalfi and Rivieras journey, the private villa above Positano is the home base on the Italian coast, while the yacht widens the horizon on the French one. The yacht is yours alone, with full crew, for the French coast portion, carrying you between Cap Ferrat and the calanques with lunch and swims on your own schedule. Together they pair a settled terrace above the sea with days spent moving along the water.

Make It Yours

This is a starting point, not a brochure.

Every journey we design is rewritten around you — your pace, your people, your sense of wonder. A private advisor will shape your own version of this journey, by quiet consultation.