La Costiera Amalfitana
Fabio Rovazzi feat. Arisa, Nino D'Angelo
What does «La Costiera Amalfitana» mean?
«La Costiera Amalfitana» means "the Amalfi Coast", the stretch of shoreline south of Naples that has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1997.
The most contemporary Italian on the site, and the vocabulary proves it: monopattino, bici, bagnetto. If you want the words you would actually use in Italy this summer rather than the ones from a 1960s ballad, this is the card. Its real teaching value is gender agreement, and you can watch it happen in the list itself: malinconico and malinconica, the same adjective in masculine and feminine within a few seconds. Italian adjectives change their ending to match the noun, and seeing one word do both is worth more than a paradigm. Note the diminutive ending on bagnetto too. B2 is earned by speed and slang, not by grammar.
How to study this song
Learning “La Costiera Amalfitana” means 69 entries at B2 — 35 Italian words, 10 adjectives and 24 verb forms, every one taken from what the song actually says. Start with the glossary: caldo, deserto and zanzare come up again and again, so they are the ones to know first. This one leans on its verbs: 24 distinct forms against 10 adjectives, so conjugation is where the effort goes. At this level the words on their own are not the problem — it is the way they are put together that takes the work.
The words of this song, in several languages
Every word below is taken from this song and translated by us. Nothing here is the lyric itself — these are the individual words you need in order to follow it.
Vocabulary
| IT | EN | ES | FR | PT | NL | DE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| caldo | heat | calor | chaleur | calor | hitte | Hitze |
| deserto | desert | desierto | désert | deserto | woestijn | Wüste |
| zanzare | mosquitoes | mosquitos | moustiques | mosquitos | muggen | Mücken |
| vita | life | vida | vie | vida |
What this song teaches you
Level · B2
- Vocabulary words
- 35
- Adjectives
- 10
- Word combos
- 10
- Expressions
- 13
- Verb forms
- 24
- Quiz questions
- 35
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Background
About the song
“La Costiera Amalfitana” is a 2026 Italian pop single by Fabio Rovazzi, an artist and video-maker known for his tongue-in-cheek, cinematic pop hits, here joined by the singers Arisa and Nino D’Angelo. Its title refers to Italy’s famed Amalfi Coast.
The Amalfi Coast, the stretch of Campanian shoreline south of Naples that gives the song its name, has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1997, and the title alone is a small lesson in Italian geography and article use.
The guest list spans two generations of Italian song: Arisa, who won Sanremo in 2014, and Nino D’Angelo, a fixture of Neapolitan popular music since the 1980s. At B2 the card asks for a wider vocabulary than most pop singles, in part because of that regional colour.
It came out on 3 July 2026 with five credited writers — Rovazzi, Nino D’Angelo, Francesco D’Agostino, Giovanni Antonacci and Davide Simonetta — and production by Simon Says! and the team Room9. Arisa sings on the record without appearing among the authors. The video, directed by YouNuts! with Rovazzi, followed on 10 July.
Did you know?
Rovazzi built his career on elaborate, comedic music videos that regularly become talking points in Italy, often featuring surprise celebrity cameos.
Charts & streaming
Fabio Rovazzi built his career on summer singles engineered to travel: "Andiamo a comandare" and "Faccio quello che voglio" both went multi-platinum in Italy and racked up hundreds of millions of views on YouTube, the platform where he started.
This release follows the same playbook, pairing him with Arisa and Nino D’Angelo across two generations of Italian song.