Le Sirenuse Mare : Inside the Amalfi Coast’s Most Anticipated Beach Club
Le Sirenuse, the hotel that has defined the Amalfi Coast for three generations opens Le Sirenuse Mare, a beach club five years in the making and almost certainly the most anticipated opening on this stretch of coastline in years. The timing is deliberate: this is the resort’s 75th anniversary, and the Sersale family, Antonio, his wife Carla, and their sons Aldo and Francesco have chosen to mark it with the project they’ve been quietly, patiently working toward for decades.
The club is set in Marina di Cantone, known to everyone as Nerano, after the hilltown it belongs to a languid, lovely fishing village just 25 minutes by boat from Positano. Le Sirenuse operates a fast shuttle for hotel guests, but the boat ride alone is worth it. From the water, the club reveals itself gradually: wide terraces rising from a pebble beach, two private jetties extending from the first level, one for boat arrivals, the other giving easy access to a cordoned-off swimming area and above them, level after level of something that manages to feel both brand new and completely inevitable.
The architecture is the work of Annarita Aversa, an Italian architect who understands the local vernacular in her bones, while the planting belongs to legendary landscape gardener Paolo Pejrone, who took one look at the site and declared it “a garden first and a beach club second.” That single idea shaped everything. The native foliage feels ancient and unhurried; two enormous stone pines, saved from the original site, cast wide pools of cool shade across the terraces. The whole place has the quality of somewhere that has always been here, waiting.
At its heart, Le Sirenuse Mare is a place to eat well and linger shamelessly. The 180-cover restaurant open for lunch daily across the lower two terraces, shaded by trellises and dressed in pale-green linens is the domain of chef Francesco De Simone, a cook with deep roots in Campanian tradition and an instinct for food that tastes best eaten slowly, in the sun, with good company.
The menu is built around whatever the local fishermen, growers, and artisan producers have brought in that morning: Neapolitan and Amalfi Coast classics, fresh crudi, grilled vegetables, sharing plates that arrive unhurried and disappear fast.
Three bars serve three very different moods. The Dolce Far Niente Bar is your post-swim destination: homemade granitas, gelatos, tiramisù, babà, Italian sweet treats done with quiet authority. Across from it, Bar Mare has a retro charm perfectly calibrated for a pre-lunch Aperol or a lazy early-evening spritz. Down near the water, Rose’s Bar named for the maverick British artist Rose Wylie, whose painted bronze sculpture Pineapple (2020) keeps it cheerful company nearby is where you go to do absolutely nothing, very happily, for as long as possible.
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Art is threaded through the whole place with a light, confident hand. The centrepiece is a monumental fountain in pearly white refractory clay by Rome-based sculptor Giuseppe Ducrot the first thing you notice on arriva. At the very top of the club, in a small olive grove, Bosco Sodi’s Caryatide (2017) a tower of raw, air-dried clay stands quietly magnificent. Everywhere you look, there is something worth looking at.
And then there is the Emporio Sirenuse store itself: 50 square metres of resortwear, ready-to-wear, jewellery, ceramics, and objects for the home, floored in aquamarine tiles that feel, unmistakably, like being underwater. It is the brand’s first flagship outside Positano.
Le Sirenuse Mare is open April to October, daily from 10am until sunset, with lunch served from noon until five. It is, as good things should be, entirely outdoors. Le Sirenuse opened in 1951 in the Sersale family’s Positano summer house. Seventy-five years later, Le Sirenuse Mare is their next chapter.
Address: Via Amerigo Vespucci, 30, 80061 Nerano
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