Summer

The summer season had to be invented, and the register can point at where. The Mediterranean coast was a winter resort whose grand hotels closed from May to September; the summer began on the Côte d'Azur in the early 1920s and then became the only season the Italian and Greek coasts have.

These are the places where the Positano rule does most of its work. A village built on a cliff or around a harbour has no flat ground to sell, so the houses are addresses rather than estates, and the one or two that do hold land belong to a neighbouring register. Most of the shoreline on this page is public, and the record says which state it is in rather than repeating a brochure.

May to September, with July and August the weeks the places are judged by. A house on this page generally shuts for the winter, and the address does not exist in the months the town is empty.