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Amalfi Coast Cliffside Village

Stable Diffusion
By Varun Sharma Tested with Stable Diffusion SDXL 1.0

Amalfi Coast Cliffside Village is a tested Stable Diffusion SDXL 1.0 prompt for travel work. It runs at Stable Diffusion SDXL 1.0 · Aspect ratio 16:9 · Steps 30 · CFG scale 6 · Sampler DPM++ 2M Karras, and ships below with the exact prompt text, usage notes, and 2 pasteable variations.

Last tested: July 2026 with Stable Diffusion SDXL 1.0

Part of the Stable Diffusion prompt library · see more cinematic prompts .

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Pastel Amalfi Coast village stacked on a cliff above a turquoise harbour at golden hour with fishing boats
Amalfi Coast Cliffside Village — Stable Diffusion SDXL 1.0, Aspect ratio 16:9

Prompt 

The Amalfi Coast at golden hour, pastel-coloured houses stacked up a steep cliffside above a deep blue Mediterranean sea, terraced lemon groves and cascading bougainvillea, small fishing boats moored in the turquoise harbour below, distant headlands fading into soft haze, warm cinematic travel photography, low late-afternoon light, sharp foreground detail

Negative prompt 

flat midday light, overcast, harsh shadows, crowds of people, deformed boats, text, watermark, logo, signage, oversaturated, cartoon, blurry, lowres, tilted horizon

Settings

Model
Stable Diffusion SDXL 1.0
Aspect ratio
16:9
Steps
30
CFG scale
6
Sampler
DPM++ 2M Karras

How to use this prompt

Two cues do the heavy lifting: 'golden hour' and 'distant headlands fading into soft haze.' The warm low light is what makes the pastel facades glow instead of looking flatly repainted, so if you swap it for midday the whole coast goes chalky and touristy. The haze cue forces SDXL to render aerial perspective — without it the far cliffs sit at the same contrast as the near houses and the shot collapses into a flat backdrop. Keep the boats small and few; ask for a 'busy harbour' and SDXL clutters the water with warped, half-formed hulls that break the postcard calm the scene depends on.

Variations to try

  • Blue hour — shift to dusk with warm window lights flickering on across the cliffside and a deep indigo sea below
  • Positano close-up — tighten to a single stepped street of pastel houses and a church dome, dropping the wide harbour view
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For developers — copy this prompt as JSON 
{
  "title": "Amalfi Coast Cliffside Village",
  "prompt": "The Amalfi Coast at golden hour, pastel-coloured houses stacked up a steep cliffside above a deep blue Mediterranean sea, terraced lemon groves and cascading bougainvillea, small fishing boats moored in the turquoise harbour below, distant headlands fading into soft haze, warm cinematic travel photography, low late-afternoon light, sharp foreground detail",
  "negative_prompt": "flat midday light, overcast, harsh shadows, crowds of people, deformed boats, text, watermark, logo, signage, oversaturated, cartoon, blurry, lowres, tilted horizon",
  "model": "Stable Diffusion",
  "model_version": "SDXL 1.0",
  "settings": {
    "aspect_ratio": "16:9",
    "steps": 30,
    "cfg": 6,
    "sampler": "DPM++ 2M Karras"
  },
  "style_tags": [
    "cinematic",
    "golden-hour"
  ],
  "use_case_tags": [
    "travel",
    "wallpaper"
  ],
  "source_url": "https://promptkoi.com/prompts/stable-diffusion/amalfi-coast-travel-shot/"
}

The whole library is available as an open JSON dataset · developer docs.