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How to Get to Sorrento

Sorrento has a strategic position which allows it to be easily reached either by car, train, bus, or by sea. HOW TO GET TO SORRENTO BY CAR: Travelling by car for approximately 50kms (approx. 31 miles), driving along the motorway A 2 Rome-Naples for those who...

Popular Traditions

Popular traditions, the legend of the myth of the Mermaids, the maritime devotion, anecdotes and curiosity, the wooden inlay, as well as poets and musicians of past centuries, still relive in the peninsula suburbs. Let's start from Vico Equense, a town famous for the...

Easter Traditions

Whoever visits Sorrento during the Easter period has the chance to see one of the traditions which is most deep-rooted in historical memoirs, repeated year after year: the procession of Maundy Thursday and Good Friday.This tradition goes back a long way; there are testimonies...

Inlaid Wood Work Museum

A NEW MODEL OF MUSEUM FOR THE DECORATIVE ARTS The building that houses the Museo Bottega stands on via S. Nicola and is part of an ancient urban area. Its 18th century structure is typical of a provincial townhouse with more consequential pretensions. The Museo...

Geographical Position

Regally lying between the Gulf of Naples in the north and Salerno one in the south, the Sorrentine Peninsula is a promontory of a thousand shades. Brilliant hues or delicate reflections that depend on the changing seasons. The Peninsula presents an extraordinary variety of morphology;...

Discover the Bay of Jeranto

In spring and summer, when nature paints the sky and sea with a thousand colours, and extends her green mantle across trees and fields, we can let ourselves be guided along the numerous intertwining pathways of our peninsula, to discover the hidden sinuous recesses...