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It's not just that this seaside Italian village looks like Escher, it actually inspired him.
This is Atrani in #Italy. It looks like a fantasy castle: A series of tall arches springs from the sea to support an acute curve in the cliff-hugging coast road. Within this hairpin loop, a 17th-century church lifts its bell-tower skyward, while the arches below form a portal between Atrani's tiny beach and its vest-pocket town square. Whitewashed houses enclose the square and tumble up the hillsides, conjoined by twisted alleys so narrow that neighbors can pass a cup of sugar from one kitchen window to another. To walk in these disorienting lanes is like stepping into one of Escher's "impossible spaces," where water seems to flow uphill and infinite staircases zigzag back onto themselves.
