Sorrento, the Siren’s Land

About Sorrento
What to expect at your stop in Sorrento
Here’s a brief outline of this Small ancient Town in the Heart of the Sorrentine Coast

Sorrento is the most important city on the Sorrento Peninsula which puts out into the sea between the Bay of Naples and the Gulf of Sorrento.
It is sing by poets and writers for its spectacular (beauty) charm.

Sorrento, not to be rhetorical is indeed the land of colours which are bright or delicate depending on the change of the season: the blue of the sea, the light blue like the colour of the traditional crafts that the fisherman face the sea in, green like the pine and olive trees that frame the magnificent view of the gulf, like the orange and lemon trees that give the air its sweet smell, like the vegetation and the gardens that are the pride of the people of Sorrento.While Visiting Sorrento .
It is rich of artistic sights as St. Francis’s Church, Villa Comunale, Correale Museum and the Cathedral.
The church of St. Francis with its lovely bell tower and the monastery which contains interesting cloisters from the 14 the century whose capitals support arches pointed in the Morish style.
The cathedral is renovated in the 15th century with its campanile.
The museum Correale di terranova is housed in an 18th century palace. On the grand floor there is a very interesting archaeological collection. Particularly impressive are the museum’s collections of 17th and 18th century, furniture mostly Neapolitan and china from Dresden, Vienna and Naples.
Beyond the Correale Museum you reach a terrace called “Belvedere” where you can admire the view of the sea and beautiful sunsets.
As legends tell Ulisses resisted here the call of the sirens. The city is also the birthplace of Tasso (1544), the author of Jerusalem Delivered. The villa where he was born is now part of the well known Hotel Tramontano.

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