POSITANO, ITALY — The Mediterranean cliff side town of Positano has long called to artists and writers.
It then continues towards a promised audience with the film's star, DiCaprio, out at the Hôtel du Cap on the cliffs beyond town.
From most of the bedrooms you can look down on the cliff-top town, across the wooded Lyn valleys to Exmoor's rocky Atlantic coastline and over Lymouth Bay to south Wales.
Located back from the seacoast above high, deep-red cliffs, the town faces away from the sea but is connected to it by a pedestrian right of way and by a remarkable railway originally designed to demonstrate a system of propulsion by atmospheric pressure against a vacuum devised by Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
From Mtae, a tiny cliff-top town in Tanzania's Usambara Mountains, the morning view unfolds slowly, revealing a shockingly complete African panorama that gradually appears from under the clouds.
Dangling 300 meters over the Aegean, the Dreams Luxury Suites resort is so small it only offers four accommodations, all with panoramic vistas over the Santorini caldera from Imerovigli, a quiet cliff-side town on the west face of the island.
Western jackdaws inhabit wooded steppes, pastures, cultivated land, coastal cliffs, and towns.
Up the cliff, the new town is mostly a late Victorian to 1950s affair.
Huge ice climbs form every winter on Cathedral Ledge, a 600-foot cliff near the town of North Conway, on State Highway 16.
Or there's the Queens Hotel (01202 554 415) with its original Victorian arcades on Bournemouth's East Cliff near the town centre.
