Sorrento

Museo Correale

A visit to the Correale Museum arouses great interest and attention in those who are art enthusiasts.
The Correale museum of Terranova is housed in an eighteenth-century villa, used as a summer residence by the counts of Terranova. The brothers Pompeo and Alfredo Correale, counts of Terranova, who remained bachelors, wrote in their will that upon their death all the works of art in them possession, accumulated over the years by the family, would not be lost and therefore proposed the creation of a museum in the villa they owned: thus the Correale di Terranova foundation was established in 1902 and the museum was inaugurated in 1924; However, it remained closed for a long time due to several controversies and was opened to the public only in 1989.

  • Entrance 8.00 euros per person
  • from Tuesday to Saturday from 9:00 to 18:00

Museobottega della Tarsialignea

The building that houses the Museobottega stands on via S. Nicola, the historical part of the town, and is part of an ancient urban nucleus. Its eighteenth century structure is typical of a provincial townhouse and it is a polyfunctional structure designed to requalify those sectors of the decorative arts which have not only a past worthy of being recorded with the work of local master craftsmen produced during the nineteenth century but also with new techniques of design which characterize the local production in inlaid wood. The museum's collection includes a series of paintings by Italian and foreign artists of the 19th century, such as Carelli, Pitloo, la Volpe, Colemann, Scedrin, supplemented by vintage prints and photos.

  • Open from 10.00 to 13.00 and from 16.00 to 19.30
  • Closed on Mondays
  • Ticket 8.00 euros per person

Cathedral

The Cathedral of Sorrento, built on the remains of an ancient Greek temple, it overlooks the bishop's square and has a neo-Gothic style façade, rises in the historic center of the coastal city starting from the 10th-12th century. dc, when, from the place that now houses the Sorrentine Cemetery, it was transferred within the city walls to the church dedicated to Santi Felice and Bacolo, and was first dedicated to San Severo, bishop of Naples, and later to San Renato, bishop of Sorrento, The central ceiling is entirely painted on canvas from Francesco Francareccio, while the central paintings are by Oronzo and Nicola Malinconico in the 1711, and represent the first Sorrento martyrs of the II century, and the co-patrons of the Diocese. Worthy of note are the marble episcopal chair, a colorful combination of parts from Roman temples with other purely sixteenth-century ones, and the pulpit in front of the same period, rich in a bas-relief depicting the Baptism of Jesus, with a valuable panel by Silvestro Buono of 1573. The paintings of the Assumption and of San Filippo and Giacomo in the ceiling of the presbytery are works by Giacomo del Po executed in the 1700s. Sorrento artisans (1936), while the large altarpiece on the bottom is an unknown work from the 1600s and depicts Saints Philip and James. work by Pietro Barone and Augusto Moriani (1902).

House of Tsso

Torquato Tasso was born on 11 March 1544 in the villa owned by the Mastrogiudice (noble Sorrentine family), located on the "Prospetto", that is, on the stretch of coast that goes from the Syrene hotel to the Church of San Francesco. Of that house, built right on the edge of the coast overlooking the sea, all that remains is a room with two arches and a balcony. Towards the middle of the century. XVII, in fact, the part of it that protruded fell into the sea with the tufaceous ridge on which it rested, "almost ill tolerating to welcome vulgar tenants, after having lost the very clear poet". On the prospectus the Tramontano hotel was built in the following period, which absorbed the little that was left of that house, as well as it incorporated very large brick works, reticulated walls, Corinthian capitals and other ruins of the Roman villa that pre-existed there and that perhaps it was only a continuation of the great villa of Agrippa Postumus.

Antiche Mura

The only part of the Greek defensive wall still remaining is under the road at the new Parsano Gate. Another ruin of the Greek wall is the Gate of Marina Grande. The Roman town was built over the Greek one following the same urban plan with walls of large isonomic blocks. These walls stood to defend Sorrento through the Middle Ages. Rebuilding began in 1551 and was only completed in 1561 after the Turkish invasion.
 

Porta di Parsano “BASTIONI”

The gate called Porta di Parsano is the only one which is still visible in its original context. Created during the 18th century,  was the beginning of a series of urban transformations culminating in the opening of Corso Italia, the creation of Piazza Tasso and subsequently, Via degli Aranci.

After restorations the Gate is visitable:

  • Open from 10.00am to 1.00pm  and from 7.00pm to 22.00pm
  • Free entry

Church and cloister of San Francesco

Walking in the historic center, you come across one of the oldest monuments of Sorrento: the beautiful Cloister of San Francesco d'Assisi, located close to the church of the same name and the Villa Comunale. This is an enchanting fourteenth-century structure with a unique architecture.

Built on the remains of a 7th century monastery, the cloister blends the typically 14th century style with that of subsequent eras, incorporating remains from pagan temples and other archaeological excavations.


Pay attention: the columns of the arches are all different from each other both in height and in the decorations they present!

Sedil Dominova

The Sedil Dominova is a symbol of the history of the Sorrento people, which has remained substantially unchanged in its fifteenth-century structure. It is located in the heart of the city, in Via Cesareo and overlooks Largo called "schizzariello", with reference to a fountain from which water continuously "squirted". Sedil Dominova was the seat of part of the Sorrento nobility but since 1877 the building has hosted an association created to guarantee workers the first forms of mutualism. In fact, on the front you can see the plaque “Società Operaia di Mutuo Soccorso”, that until the 1960s, was able to achieve the mutualistic purposes and the provision of subsidies and pensions, for which it was founded in 1877.

Reggina Giovanna baths

The Bath of queen's Giovanna is one of the places richest in magical stories and full of charm. From Capo di Sorrento there is a narrow street with walls covered in ivy. Along a path in the shade of vines and orange trees, one can reach in a slope towards the sea, Regina Giovanna baths. To the visitor gives a spectacle of rare beauty: a large natural basin connected to the sea by a narrow gap between the rocks. The space on the hill is occupied by the remains of a magnificent Roman villa, built at the time of Emperor Domitian (81-96 AD) and belonged to Pollio Felice. According to the legend it was here that frequently queen's Giovanna came away from indiscreet eyes to share moments of intimacy with her lovers. Giovanna II D’Angio Durazzo, one of the most scandalous sovereigns to ever sit on the throne of Naples.
These ruins are one of the most fascinating of the Sorrento Peninsula, they were discovered in 1624 by Giovanni Vinaccia. Partially open, you can see the underground connecting the annex with the villa above. No other villa of this period has been described in detail such as this one, in the verses by Statius . Like other villas on the sea in the Roman era, has a harbor and an “ eel fishery“ for the breeding of fish and a nymphaeum. From the villa there is a passage on the rocks where you can swim in crystal clear waters.

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