Hostel Sorrento Deals
Last Photo
Weather
Le bellezze di Sorrento
Visit Sorrento Monuments
In the lanes of Old Town surviving churches and ancient monasteries, keepers of valuable memories.
Centuries old palaces and Durazzo portals witness the splendor of the noble families of Sorrento.
Via San Cesareo is the heart of the city with its colorful shops , but the city's architectural jewel is the Cloister of St. Francis.
The architecture of the cloister has crossed tuff arches on both sides of the porch, stylistic expression of the late fourteenth century, replaced the other two sides by round arches on octagonal pillars.
Beside the convent is the Church of St. Francis of the sixteenth century.
The Romanesque Cathedral dates from the fifteenth century, the church houses the baptistery where Torquato Tasso was baptized
and paintings by artists of the Neapolitan school of 700. The Campanile of the Cathedral
stands for the basement of the Romanesque, built around the eleventh century, with shafts of columns of various orders. The raised arches and columns arranged at the corners is a clear emphasis Byzantine law. Greece remains one of the walls existing below street level portion of Parsano Porta Nuova, visible near the door.
The Sedile Dominova
is the only remaining testimony in Campania of the ancient nobility. The monument dates back to the sixteenth century, shows a quadrilateral form with two corner arches piperno leaving discover the whole of the dome and the end walls with frescoes of the eighteenth century. The pillars and arches, clustered, are archaic flavor. The dome consists of seventeenth-century yellow and green majolica tiles. The Valley of the Mills is part of a system of valleys that sailed the Sorrento peninsula until the beginning of the century, and it was natural boundaries. It stretched from Piazza Tasso to the Marina Piccola, forming a picturesque harbor whose name comes from a mill whose ruins are still visible. The church of Maria del Carmine goes back to 230 AD, when in Sorrento, there was a persecution against Christians. The church was rebuilt in the Baroque, as well as the facade for the old image of Our Lady, a copy of La Bruna Naples. Not to forget is that the fame of Sorrento is linked to that of the poet Torquato Tasso was born here in 1544. The house where the poet was born is now one of the oldest and most beautiful hotels of the town.
