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The pop icon has decided to spend part of her holiday on the Amalfi Coast, following in the elusive footsteps of other stars such as JLo. Specifically, at the Villa TreVille resort in Positano. There Madonna is set to celebrate her 66th birthday alongside her loved ones: her two daughters and her alleged boyfriend, football player Akeem Morris.
During her stay in Italy, the artist took part in the traditional Italian Ferragosto celebrations from the balcony of the La Tagliata restaurant in Montepertuso, complete with a fireworks display.
Madonna wanted to experience “la dolce vita” in style by inviting a cast of 30 guests to a sumptuous dinner set in the Pompeii Archaeological Park, a source tells PEOPLE. The evening, orchestrated by the three-Michelin-starred Quattro Passi restaurant and overseen by chef Vincenzo Castaldo of Villa TreVille, was inspired by the Mediterranean diet and culinary traditions of the Amalfi Coast.
The restaurant’s chefs, Antonio and Fabrizio Mellino, designed the menu based on Madonna’s “simple” Mediterranean-inspired tastes, all made with local ingredients such as organic vegetables and seafood from the Sorrento Peninsula, anchovies from Menaica and homemade bread.
The dishes included mini penne with zucchini and escarole garnished with seasoned olives and pine nuts, bruschetta with Sorrento tomatoes and olives. Guests were also treated to other top dishes such as white grouper and sea bream from the Gulf with herbs from the local Monte San Costanzo, beef fillet, potato salad, focaccia pizza and a sequence of eggplant dishes.
Desserts from the Campania region rounded off the experience with a banquet filled with rum-flavored baba tarts, sfogliatelle, chocolate and coffee profiteroles, and Sorrento lemon tarts.