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SORRENTO
Sorrento is a small city in Campania, Italy. The city looks cradles between the green hills and blue seas. Sorrento coast houses some of the favorite and famous beaches. The Amalfi coast of this region is just amazing.
The must visit places are listed below:
Basilica of Saint Antonino - This basilica was dedicated to the Patron Saint. It was built with a nave and two aisles around the year 1000. The structure houses the paintings of 1600. In a crypt below is located Saint Antonino's grave. He was born in Campagna, a town near Salerno. He died here on 15 February 471. Many miracles are said to be done by this Saint. The most remembered one include the one when he saved a child who was swallowed by a whale. This fact explains the presence of two cetacean bones in the hall of the Basilica.
Cathedral - The "wood intarsia", the Italian style architecture is used in making this Cathedral. The cathedral of the town overlooks the street Corso Italia and it's adorned with furnishings realized with ancient techniques of inlaid work. It was built at the beginning of the fifteenth century with a romantic style and later it was restored several times until the restoration of 1924 during which were rebuilt entirely its front.
Sedil Dominova - This is a monument, built around 1450. It is still perfectly preserved. The frescos of the seventeenth century are worth the admiration. The inner small lounge that preserved the marble inscriptions is now at the museum Correale di Terranova in Sorrento.
Saint Francis' Convent - Saint Francis's convent consists of three buildings: the church, the convent and the very famous cloister. The church was built in the XVI century in a Baroque style, but with a front in white marble that was built in 1926. It preserves important works as the wood main door, representing Saint Francis with the Crucified. Another statue of the saint, in bronze, in a modern style, realized in 1922 by the sculptor Alfiero Nena, is visible in the square, opposite the church. Next to the church there's the splendid cloister of the fourteenth century that was found in the VII century and that today is still inhabited by Franciscan friars. The building has a rich variety of architectonic styles melted together to form one work, an ideal setting of the art exhibitions, festivals, concerts and events.
Marina Grande - This road starts from the end of the street "Sopra le Mura". After few steps you reach to the gate of Marina Grande which preserves the typical Greek structure dated back to IV century B.C. From this gate entered the Turkish pirates, sacked Sorrento in 1558. Going beyond this gate you are behind a typical fishing village, represented by a fusion between the Moorish architecture and the real local style. Situated here is also St. Anne's church, the patron saint of the village, was built at the end of the seventeenth century and later extended.
Correale Museum - The museum was once a private institution started by the brothers Alfredo and Pompeo Correale. Walk around this building to be able to admire the rooms endowed with precious furniture, refined European and eastern porcelains and rare Neapolitan and foreign paintings. The building is distributed on three floors, with a total of twenty four rooms and the loft that is used as an expository space. The art collections of the museum Correale present a wide range of Neapolitan painting and decorative art from XVI to XIX century and of foreign painting. It also preserves an interesting collection of European clocks and one of the most prestigious collections of Chinese, European and Neapolitan porcelains of the XVIII century.
Sorrento Cape - This locality is situated halfway between Sorrento and Massa Lubrense. It also features Regina Giovanna Beaches and the archaeological site of the villa of Pollio Felice.
Marina Puolo - This is a beautiful seaside village. The village located behind the big beach is risen above by an old sighting tower of the pirates. The name "Puolo" derives from a distortion of the Latin Pollius, name of the Roman patrician Pollius Felix, and owner of a majestic villa, which stood very close.