Perched under the citadel of the Terra Murata, which encompasses Palazzo d'Avolos (a 1500s palace-turned-prison and now cultural center), the Marina Corricella is Procida's most memorable sight. Singled out for the waterfront scenes in Il Postino (The Postman, the 1995 Oscar winner for Best Foreign Film), this fishermen's cove is one of the most eye-popping villages in Campania—a rainbow-hued, horizontal version of Positano, comprising hundreds of traditional Mediterranean-style stone houses threaded by numerous scalatinelle (staircase streets).
This sleepy fishing village has been relatively immune to life in the limelight. Apart from a new restaurant and bar, there have been few changes, but the place comes alive at night.
