Sorrento is located on a tuff coast and is reflected in the Gulf of Naples, fascinating tourists and visitors, attracted by breathtaking views and landscapes. The town gives its name to the Sorrento Peninsula, a great area extended from Vico Equense to Massa Lubrense. This area, thanks to its geographical shape, suspended between the green hills and the blue of the seas, is from the time immemorial a great attraction of the southern Italy.
Land of colours, mysteries, traditions and legends, Sorrento, since always, charms, amazes and inspires you to return.It may have been the Sirens, according to the Greeks, who living in our seabequeathed to this peninsula, lying in its seawaters, the capability to enchant with their charm. Between the town walls rest the monuments, churches and the testimonies of antique civilizations; walking through the streets of the historic centre, the antique Greek-Roman structure is still legible, memory represented vividly in via Pietà, via S. Cesareo, via Padre Reginaldo Giuliani and via Tasso.
Along the decuman of via S. Cesareo - it's possible to admire "Sedile di Porta" and "Dominava", where the nobility of Sorrento reunited; the Cathedral, with its inlaid wooden chorus, the Basilica of Sant'Antonino with its pulpit and the Museo Correale.

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