Sorrento the land of colours

Posted on 15 febbraio 2009 by Italy Travellers

Is one of the most well-known international tourist sights. Sorrento, birthplace of the poet Torquato Tasso, retreat for such artists and writers as Caruso and Wagner, who found inspiration in this spendid area; Sorrento is immersed in a landscape unique in the world, where low and high hills, deep valleys and majestic mountains alternate, where the Manís 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.
Sorrento is indeed a very pretty little city where kindness and hospitality are a combination that is handed down from one generation to the next. Sorrento, is indeed the land of colours: brilliant or delicate hues depending on the change of the seasons.
Today Sorrento is a modern city with over one hundred luxury hotels; it is the home of a prestigious and rich Museum (Correale of Terranova), that contains important testimonies of both the history of the city. Sorrento hosts important events in the fields of culture (International Prize Award “City of Sorrento” for science), music (Sorrentine Summer Musical Festival), cinema (International Film Festival), as well as the ideal starting point for visiting to all the tourist delightful sights of the area (Capri, Ischia, Naples, Herculaneum, Pompeii, Positano, Amalfi, Ravello) and so…

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