The town was popular with many of the famous, including Wagner, Grieg, Escher, Boccaccio, Virginia Wolf, Greta Garbo,
Gore Vidal, André Gide, Joan Mirò, Truman Capote, Graham Greene, Leonard Bernstein. Every year in the summer months,
it hosts the “Ravello Festival”, begun in 1953 in honour of Wagner, who signed the guestbook of his local hotel with
the words “the magical garden of Klingsor is found”, suggesting that here the composer found inspiration for Parsifal.

The Duomo dates from the 11th century.