Villa Rufolo

[citation needed] Around the middle of the nineteenth century it was sold to the Scotsman Francis Neville Reid who took care of a general restoration, resulting in today's layout.

[citation needed] The villa is entered through an opening in the arched entrance tower, and after a short street a clearing is dominated by the Torre Maggiore: the latter facing the bell tower of the cathedral in Ravello, overlooking the terraces (upper and lower) as well as overlooking the Amalfi Coast and the Gulf of Salerno with flower gardens that are in bloom most of the year.

[citation needed] The German opera composer Richard Wagner visited the villa in 1880.

He was so overcome by the beauty of the location that he imagined the setting as the garden of Klingsor in the second act of Parsifal.

In commemoration, every year the lower garden of Villa Rufolo hosts a Wagnerian concert.