But these days, it has a more genteel atmosphere as an upmarket suburb and peaceful fishing village.
Some visitors compare it to a Greek fishing village, others to a glamorous town on the French Riviera.
The best place to stay is Paternoster, a whitewashed fishing village with blue-and-red boats on its sandy beach.
If you look closely, there are still hints of the poor fishing village Positano once was.
Life was so bad in her fishing village that even rice porridge was a luxury.
Transcending rather than traveling back through the centuries, she finds herself in an English fishing village circa 1410.
Cala di Volpe hotel's architect Jacques Couelle has sculpted a contemporary take on the ancient Mediterranean fishing village.
Blue Ventures, a British nonprofit, sponsors eight trips a year to a remote fishing village on Madagascar's southwest coast.
No longer a sleepy fishing village, not yet a bustling metropolis, the city itself is on the brink of transformation.
It is hard to believe that only a few years ago, this was the humble, sleepy fishing village of Bagan Lalang, in Sepang.
The Moonlight was co-designed by a Dutch team and local residents of a small fishing village outside of the capital, Phnom Penh.
Born in a Basque fishing village in 1895, Balenciaga opened his couture house in Paris in 1937 to immediate critical and popular acclaim.
The fishing village of Wanchese, near the Outer Banks, was bustling Friday as commercial fishermen secured their boats against the likely storm surge.
Meanwhile, in the County Down fishing village of Portavogie, 1, 100 electricty customers were cut off when a vehicle accidently damaged a power cable.
But today, the former fishing village known mostly to backpackers is seeing an influx in visitors, thanks to the welcoming social scene that accompanies the unbroken surf.
Industrial Ota was built on the foundations of an ancient fishing village, where men cast their nets as a group and housewives dried seaweed together.
Painted in brilliant colors with lighting reminiscent of a Turner seascape, it portrays a fishing village with a line of majestic bluffs rising behind it.
Not long ago, Taganga was a sleepy fishing village -- a seaside retreat where in-the-know travellers could to tie up a hammock for a few days of tranquillity.
After completing my family medicine residency in Macon, Georgia, I established a clinic in a small fishing village in Alabama to help its many uninsured residents.
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Many of them have been with Father Phamductrinh since he was their parish priest in their fishing village back on the southernmost tip of South Vietnam.
In Rhode Island's coastal fishing village of Jerusalem, John Eldridge, 38, stood outside his flooded, grey-shingled cottage, his pants tucked into rubber boots, recounting a long night.
Keen to catch the sunset, I raced through the quaint fishing village of Apollo Bay, and completely bypassed the Cape Otway Lighthouse, about 30km further on and open to visitors.
In Galaxidi, a small fishing village in Greece, revellers hurl multicoloured flour to celebrate one of the holiest (and most ironically named) days of the year - Clean Monday.
Cobbles are everywhere in the fishing village of Clovelly: they smother houses, garden walls and the steep lanes, giving the village the feel of flowing down the hill to the sea.
The trail ends just 2km southeast of the Mount of Beatitudes in Capernaum, a large fishing village at the time of Jesus and said to be the home of Saint Peter.
During interludes, the women playfully mime vignettes reflecting life in a farm or fishing village, including treading on roof tiles, unrolling a mat, catching a mouse or tying herrings.
This vast emptiness makes the approach to Arniston and Kassiesbaai, the oldest active fishing village in South Africa, feel like the metaphorical, as well as literal, end of the road.
He thought Tyre an economically thriving but insufficiently holy place that should be reduced to nothing more than a fishing village with plenty of open space to "spread fish nets" to dry.
Rumoured to be the most beautiful sea kayaking spot in the country, the small fishing village on the west side of Glandore Harbour has a secluded beach cove and a network of around 10 sea caves and inlets.
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