Zeffirelli's villa in Positano one of the most stunning 5 Star Hotels on the Amalfi Coast

The former home of Zeffirelli in Positano, has been a hotel owned by the American Friedland family since 2011 , where a room can cost up to Euro 10,000 per night. There was, in those who frequented it, the vivid sensation that  they were in paradise. Villa Tre Ville, located in Positano, the ancient seaside village of colorful houses on sloping terraces. Franco Zeffirelli bought the residence "with the fierce desire to make it more and more beautiful and more and more mine". He decorated it at the end of the 1960s, almost transforming it into a theater, amidst verandas, lush gardens and halls filled with marble, ivory, mirrors and mother of pearl. The villa has changed hands twice in the last fifteen years. Initially the entrepreneur Giovanni Russo took it over, for the renovation he relied on Fausta Gaetani, sister of Raimonda, one of Franco's costume and set designers. There could not have been a better successor, an attentive, thoughtful, respectful host of the past, he kept the grace, elegance and beauty of the place. The American Friedland family has been the owner since 2011.

The core of the three Villas have remained unchanged: 16 exclusive rooms (in addition to the large green spaces), each different from the other, but all with sea views; they cost from 1800 to 10 thousand euros per night for the Master Suite. The  villa  is connected to the sea by four elevators carved into the rock and by galleries illuminated by Yahya Rouach, a well-known Moroccan artist. The villas, as they are called with a touch of understatement, each have  a different color. The Pink houses the rooms named after Nijinski, where the ghosts of Diaghilev and Massine seem to hover. In the Villa Azzurra there are the floors left by the master and the 18th century Neapolitan ceramics bought by antique dealers. And then Villa Bianca, designed by architect and set designer Renzo Mongiardino, is the central body, it housed, among other things, the master's apartment, with a Moroccan imprint, and the living room is embellished with a Murano chandelier. Franco's guests gathered on the sofas with white curtains overlooking the bay of Positano.

The Kessler twins performed every August at the Villa, and frequent guests included Carla Fracci and Beppe Menegatti with his colorful caps, and poor Robert Powell, who became famous for his interpretation of Jesus in Zeffirelli's movie. The Russian noblewoman Maria Saint Just, best friend of Tennessee Williams who was fundamental for Franco's first great international successes, at Easter prepared the paskha, a traditional dessert of her land. It was an unusually small, seated, numbered breakfast. Lina Wertmüller, without warning, brought some friends. Maria Saint Just, mother of Natasha, Franco's "goddaughter", went around the table to serve the guests. When she got to where Lina was sitting, she said nothing.