"Walking in Sorrento among myths, legends and panoramas"

Sorrento, Italy
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During this tour you will discover places different from other tours and immerse yourself in the land of mermaids with its myths and legends. You will admire the same panoramas that have inspired musicians, poets, composers, artists and inlayers. I will take you to where the famous songs were written, the films shot and the concerts staged. Together with the writers and artists of the grand tour from Goethe, to Ibsen enchanted by the beauty of its sea and its orange and lemon groves you will discover some of the typical products of the Sorrento citrus fruits: limoncello, mandarinello, orange marmalade, lemon marmalade, lemon ice cream, lemon granita. Finally, I will take you to the historic center, among the craft shops and, if you feel like it, to one of the most beautiful Italian museums where the owner will show you the 19th century inlay jewels, from paintings to furniture. In a shop you can also buy an intarsia memorabilia to take home.
ENJOY A ROMANTIC MOMENT YOU WILL NEVER FORGET.

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Itinerary
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Stop At: Piazza della Vittoria, Sorrento Italy

In Piazza della Vittoria we will immerse ourselves in the magic of the myth of the Land of the Sirens, in the enchantment of one of the most beautiful breathtaking panoramas in the world and we will meet Homer, Virgil, Gorky, Turgenev and the illustrious poet Torquato Tasso, native of Sorrento.

Duration: 20 minutes

Stop At: Marina Grande - Antico Borgo Marinaro, Via Marina Grande 1, 80067, Sorrento Italy

At the Borgo di Marina Grande where we will arrive after a 10-minute walk on foot, we will admire the characteristics of this place, the fishermen's nets and the typical Sorrentine goiter. We will stop to admire the balcony where the actress Sofia Loren leaned out in the famous film "Pane, amore e...." with Vittorio De Sica. We will take a ride on the pier and we will sublime in front of Vesuvius and the beauty of the Gulf of Naples.

Duration: 20 minutes

Stop At: Casa Di Cornelia Tasso, Via San Nicola 11, 80067, Sorrento Italy

From the Borgo di Marina Grande we will walk along Via Padre Reginaldo Giuliani and stop at the "Donna Sofia" restaurant, a characteristic place, a cult of chef Mario's Sorrento cuisine, where you can admire dozens of photographs of Sofia Loren. We will reach our destination, the house of Cornelia Tasso, the sixteenth-century palace where the sister of the great Sorrento writer Torquato Tasso lived which we will admire from the outside as the internal fresco that decorates the vault was destroyed by fire.

Duration: 10 minutes

Stop At: Museo Bottega della Tarsia Lignea, Via S. Nicola, 28, 80067 Sorrento NA, Italy

From Cornelia Tasso's house in two minutes we will go to the Museo della Tarsia Lignea, one of the two Sorrento museum jewels, reported by English tour operators among the top ten museums in Campania. Here we will admire the collection of Sorrentine inlays from the 19th century as well as a section dedicated to the works, vases and paintings that commemorate our great poet Torquato Tasso.

Duration: 45 minutes

Stop At: Imperial Hotel Tramontano, Via Vittorio Veneto, 1, 80067 Sorrento NA, Italy

From the MUTA we will return to Via Vittorio Veneto where we will make a stop both outside and inside the majestic Hotel Tramontano where the best known names of the royal houses have stayed, as well as painters and writers of the Grand Tour: from Henrik Ibsen to the French writer Marguerite Yourcenar . This majestic hotel was the place of inspiration for the de Curtis brothers of the well-known song "Torna a Surriento", of which we will tell the genesis and the anecdote. Inside we will admire the place where the great poet Torquato Tasso was born and his garden with secular trees.

Duration: 10 minutes

Stop At: Chiostro di San Francesco, Piazza Francesco Saverio Gargiulo 8, 80067, Sorrento Italy

In this enchanting fourteenth-century cloister, a place where civil weddings are celebrated and which hosts classical music concerts in the summer, we will admire the beauty of its colonnade and its intimacy under a weeping willow. Silence reigns in this place where the Franciscan monks live isolated from the Sorrentine worldly life intent on prayer and in the creation of the Neapolitan nativity scene.

Duration: 10 minutes

Stop At: Villa Comunale, Via San Francesco, Sorrento Italy

From the Cloister we will pass through the Villa Comunale dedicated to our Sorrentine composer Salve d'Esposito, known for the famous song "Anema e core". Here you will have time to admire and photograph a breathtaking panorama that ranges from the island of Ischia to the Punta del Capo di Sorrento, Vesuvius and the entire Gulf of Naples.

Duration: 15 minutes

Stop At: Grand Hotel Excelsior Vittoria, Piazza Torquato Tasso, 34, 80067 Sorrento NA, Italy

From the Villa Comunale we will head towards the Hotel Excelsior Vittoria passing through Piazza S. Antonino, where we will admire the Statue dedicated to the Patron Saint of Sorrento with hints of its history and the Museum Restaurant dedicated to the tenor Enrico Caruso (if open). We will stop in front of the hotel which houses the two famous suites dedicated to the tenor Enrico Caruso and the singer Lucio Dalla. We will briefly go through the history of these two artists, also recalling the stay of the well-known composer Richard Wagner and his idyll which ended tumultuously with the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.

Duration: 10 minutes

Stop At: I Giardini di Cataldo, Corso Italia 267, 80067, Sorrento Italy

Stage scheduled from the end of March to the end of December. From the Hotel Vittoria we will head for a stop and a tasting of limoncello and granita at the "Giardini di Cataldo" historic Sorrento citrus grove owned by the then commander Achille Lauro, subsequently purchased by the current owners who produce limoncello with the ancient Sorrento tradition.

Duration: 30 minutes

Stop At: Via Aniello Califano, 80067 Sorrento NA, Italy

From the Cataldo Gardens we will walk along one of the most beautiful streets of Sorrento, where the most luxurious hotels and residences of the city dominate to arrive in front of the Correale Museum whose history we will describe by illustrating the two commemorative plaques placed on its sides until we reach via Aniello Califano where we will admire the last panorama of the tour to the rhythm of the song "O Surdato 'Nnammurato" written by the composer to whom the street is dedicated.


Duration: 10 minutes

Stop At: Piazza Giovanni Battista de Curtis, 80067 Sorrento NA, Italy

Here we will admire the mural dedicated to Lucio Dalla by the street artist Jorit Agoch. We will illustrate the story of the Bolognese singer and his link with the city that awarded him honorary citizenship.

Duration: 10 minutes

Stop At: Il Vallone dei Mulini, Via Fuorimura, Sorrento Italy

We will stop and end our tour in this enchanting place, reviewed by the magazine "Nature" so called because once there were mills, today instead it is the realm of rare plants.

Duration: 5 minutes

Inclusions

  • Snacks - At the Cataldo Gardens you will be offered a limoncello and a choice of lemon gelalto or granita
  • The ticket to the Museo della Tarsia Lignea will be included
  • Entry/Admission - I Giardini di Cataldo
  • Entry/Admission - Museo Bottega della Tarsia Lignea

Exclusions

  • The cost of the journey by rental car is 20.00 Euros one way and 20.00 Euros return.
  • Cost subject to review depending on the number of requests and the season.

Additional information

  • Wheelchair accessible
  • Stroller accessible
  • Service animals allowed
  • Near public transportation
  • Transportation is wheelchair accessible
  • Access with a wheelchair is inconvenient only to reach the Borgo di Marina Grande, but it is possible to book a car service at an additional cost.
  • The minimum number of travelers is 4 pax.
  • Most travelers can participate
  • The tour can also see different attractions
  • The tour includes the possibility of proposing other attractions
  • Social distancing enforced throughout experience
  • Guides required to regularly wash hands
  • At present, given the epidemiology situation under control, there are no particular anti-Covid restrictive measures.
  • This experience requires good weather. If it’s canceled due to poor weather, you’ll be offered a different date or a full refund
  • This experience requires a minimum number of travelers. If it’s canceled because the minimum isn’t met, you’ll be offered a different date/experience or a full refund
  • This is a private tour/activity. Only your group will participate
  • Confirmation will be received at time of booking

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