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Sorrento Peninsula has a landscape unique in the world,
where low and high hills, deep valleys and majestic mountains alternate,
where the Man’s work - who levelled even the most impervious areas,
transforming them in the famous terraces degrading towards the sea, on which
he cultivated orange and lemon trees, olive groves and vineyards - has been
grandiose. These are the delight’s gardens that in springtime exhale a
stirring scent of orange - blossom. The mild and dry climate for most part
of the year makes Sorrento Peninsula the ideal destination in every season.
The Spanish sovereigns, who ruled during the modern age loved very much this
land, for its abundance of fruit, fish, birds, meat and cheese. Afterwards,
in the eighteenth century, Sorrento Peninsula was rediscovered by the Grand
tour. The intellectuals of all Europe, such as Nietzsche and Ibsen, found
there spiritual and cultural spurs, inaugurating the taste of living in
villa which made Sorrento Peninsula a longed for goal of an exclusive
tourism.
Nowadays, besides the aristocratic villas, there are prestigious hotels,
campings and farm holidays that are part of a wider network of tourist
services and offer a top-level comfort. In a tidy and safe atmosphere,
everybody will spend his ideal holiday, having the opportunity to choose
from nature and silence, health and culture, swims, thermal treatments in
Scrajo’s waters, boat excursions, naturalistic walks, excursions in the
archaeological areas of the necropolises of Aequa and Deserto and visits to
museums (Mineralogy Museum, Museo Correale, Museum-workshop of wooden
tarsia, Museum of Villa Fondi), to the old city centres rich in monasteries
and cloisters, like that of San Francesco in Sorrento, and to the ancient
hamlets with frescoed churches, like the Chapel of Santa Lucia in Vico
Equense; but also sport and musical and cinema events of international echo,
theatre performances, night clubs and bars.
Here is a party all the year long, with thousands of local cultural
traditions on a very tight schedule: from the Carnival, the famous Easter
processions that cross all Peninsula and the thousands of summer and autumn
feasts of typical products cheered up by the typical Sorrento "tarantella",
an ancient folkloristic dance, to the rich Christmas events. Top-level
restaurants invite you to taste the local cooking, famous all over the
world, which combines fish and meat menus
And then handicraft, whose most renowned expression is the wooden tarsia,
but that boasts also a shipbuilding production of boats contended in all
markets. Finally the many liqueurs distilled from local products: lemon,
tangerine, orange, nut.
Moreover Sorrento Peninsula is also the starting point for numberless
excursions: Pompei, Paestum, Naples and Vesuvius, Capri and Ischia,
Positano, Amalfi and Ravello, and for any other destination, thanks to a
thick network of aerial, road, railway and maritime links. Then, do not
escape the Sirens’ singing: come, they are waiting for you! |