People who have visited the Sorrento peninsula certainly know the area of Massa Lubrense and its small villages.
True natural paradise, the town of Massa Lubrense contains gems of the like of Jeranto Bay and Punta Campanella, places characterized by a rough and wild nature, interspersed with small bays and coves, one behind the other, hiding to view the small fishermen villages, where form you can still breathe the smell of the sea.
The classic journey is s a classic walking tour of the city in order to capture the essential features of its historical evolution and the urban planning through the discovery of its monuments, its history and its curiosity.
Piazza Tasso is the heart of the city of Sorrento. Once called Piazza Castello, was born only in the nineteenth century, as a consequence of a profound and radical change in the city planning.
Whereas now stands the St. Anthony’s statue, the revered patron saint, was formerly a castle dating back to Aragon times, later demolished in the mid-eighteen hundred century.
A city characterized by a mix of traditional and cultures. And the sea is always there …
The city is piled up and looks like Jerusalem: without trees, no shelter, standing naked and proud, remote as if it were back in history. Cagliari is a modern, elegant and with a great cultural vitality.
Cagliari is a flowering of new restaurants, charming b & b, craft shops and design, but also of artistic places: here the literary coffee are more animated than ever, the Nouvelle Vague of Sardinian literature is powered by the genius of fiction writers Francesco Abbate, Giulia Clarkon, Marcello Fois, Salvatore Niffoi and Michela Murgia winner 2010 Campiello Award, for his book “Sa Accabadora”. read more…
With the Mount Vesuvius as background and a coastal landscape of undeniable beauty, Sorrento is one of the top holidays destinations.
But the beauty is not all and so there is a rich cultural and historical heritage to complement the already rich book.
The etymology of the term Sorrento derives from the name “Sirenide”, in so far as the town of Sorrento was formerly linked to the Homeric legend of the Sirens, mythical creatures.
Contrary to popular belief that the Sirens was half woman and half fish, Homer’s Sirens were monsters with scary female bust and the body of a bird.
Go on holiday in Positano without visiting the Saracen towers means losing one of the most important historical sites of the Amalfi Coast.
The first towers was built in the Middle Ages, on orders of the viceroy Pietro from Toledo, to spot in advance the Saracens ships, the fearsome pirates who looted and plundered the countries of the Sorrento peninsula and of the Amalfi Coast.
There are many reasons because since many centuries Sorrento is one of the most popular resorts!
Tourism began to develop in Sorrento at the time of the Ancient Romans, attracted by its mild climate. It is no coincidence that in Sorrento there are the remains of ancient ” Villae marittime”, among the most important Pollio Felice’s Villa and the Agrippa Posthumus’s villa’s.
It is already autumn.
What to do? The cold begins to bite, and objectively it is still early for the summer holidays.
Then, in this time, you can take advantage, treating yourself an holiday in an Italian destination such as Sorrento, for example.
Sorrento is a fascinating city all year long, but in the autumn it becomes, if anything, even more romantic and charming. In short the ideal destination for a romantic holiday in two!
The Sorrento Peninsula is a unique place that alternates sea and sky, hills and valleys, and where the skilful hand of the man has adapted to their needs the most inaccessible areas, searching original solutions, such as the famous terraces, steps of land that slopes gently toward the sea, and wherein grow lemons, oranges, walnuts and tomatoes, spaced out with olive trees.