Let's make one thing clear: arriving by car in Sorrento can be a complicated undertaking, especially in the summer season. However, for those traveling with our problems, the best thing is to choose a "right" period of the year (every month except August ...) and reach the town with your own car, park it in Piazza Tasso (large parking, with some places reserved for the disabled and an equipped toilet, all for a fee) and then run around in the center. The center of Sorrento is quite easy to navigate, the shops are attractive and full of typical products, although sometimes there is more than one step at the entrance. The attractions that can be visited are: the Villa Comunale, with its splendid view of the sea:
the Cloister of San Francesco (adjacent to the Villa):
the fourteenth-century Sedil Dominova, meeting place of the nobles of the city:
the Correale di Terranova Museum (*), surrounded by a splendid park overlooking the sea, is very interesting for its paintings, ceramics, carved wooden objects and archaeological finds (www.museocorreale.it):
the Villa Fiorentino (*), a pretty building now used for exhibitions and cultural events
the Cathedral, dedicated to Saints Philip and James (www.cattedralesorrento.it); here we find the baptismal font where Torquato Tasso, the most illustrious of the Sorrentines, was consecrated:
the Vallone dei Mulini, which can be seen from above in Via Fuorimura, has the ruins of the mills, a sawmill and the public wash house:
Palazzo Correale, overlooking Piazza Tasso, with a beautiful portal and an internal courtyard with eighteenth-century majolica:
the extraordinary Museum of Wood Inlay, a meritorious private institution founded and directed by the architect Alessandro Fiorentino with the aim of preserving and making known the masterpieces of Sorrento inlay: (https://www.comune.sorrento.na.it/pagina845_museo -bottega-della-inarsia-lignea.html):
You can then take the car back and get off at Marina Piccola, with reserved parking spaces, and at the more characteristic Marina Grande (the location of many scenes of "Bread, love and ..." with De Sica and Loren), where however it is very difficult to park:
For lunch we suggest a place with sea view, in the center: Terrazza delle Sirene (*): Via Luigi De Maio 35, Sorrento 081 8773263/338 861 3413 https://www.facebook.com/wedding.locations.sorrento/ (*) symbol indicating the presence of toilets equipped for the disabled