Sorrento grand tour off the beaten track with breathtaking landscapes

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Summary

Experience Details

What You’ll Experience

Where to Meet

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Location

Naples

Duration

3 hours

Number of Guests

1 - 12 guests

Accessibility

Stroller Accessible

Language

English, French, Italian

Other

Wheelchair Accessible, Family-friendly, Pet-friendly, Private Experience

Digital Ticket

Mobile or paper ticket accepted

Explore the hidden gems of Sorrento, delving into its rich myths and vibrant arts. Enjoy breathtaking landscapes, taste citrus delights, and visit historic sites for a memorable adventure.

For each guest that attends this experience, byFood will donate
10 meals

Experience Details

During this tour you will discover places different from other tours and dive into the land of mermaids with its myths and legends. You will admire the same views that inspired musicians, poets, composers, artists and inlay artists. I'll take you to where the famous songs were written, the movies were shot, and the concerts were made.Together with the writers and artists of the grand tour from Goethe, in Ibsen enchanted by the beauty of its sea and its orange and lemon groves you will discover some of the typical products of Sorrento citrus fruits: limoncello, mandarin, orange jam, lemon, lemon ice cream, lemon granita.Finally I will take you to the Old Town, among the craft shops where you can admire how craftsmen produce inlay jewelry, shoemakers make jewel sandals. I will greet you nostalgic in one of the most enchanted and mysterious places of Sorrento.

ENJOY A ROMANTIC MOMENT YOU'LL NEVER FORGET AGAIN.

What You Get

Snacks

At Giardini di Cataldo or at Liminoro will be offered a limoncello and of your choice or a lemon gelalto or a granita

Good To Know

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 tour includes the possibility of proposing other attractions
Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
Public transportation options are available nearby
Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
The tour can also see different attractions

What You’ll Experience

Piazza della Vittoria

In Piazza della Vittoria you will sublimate yourself 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, the French writer Yourcenar and the American writer Harriet Beecher Stowe and the illustrious great poet Torquato Tasso, a native of Sorrento. We will go to the Belle vue Sirene hotel where we will admire from above the ruins of the Roman Villa of Agrippa Postumo, nephew of Augustus and the two nymphaeums. I will show you a breathtaking panorama and let you imagine the Roman fish pond in a sea with crystal clear waters.

15 minutesAdmission Ticket Free

Marina Grande - Antico Borgo Marinaro

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.

30 minutesAdmission Ticket Free

Casa Di Cornelia Tasso

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.

5 minutesAdmission Ticket Free

Sedile Dominova

From Cornelia Tasso's house in two minutes we will go to the historic center among its craft shops, we will visit the Sedil Dominova and if you want 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 of 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. ENTRANCE IS OPTIONAL AND MUST BE INDICATED AT THE TIME OF BOOKING. THE COST OF THE TICKET FOR ADULTS IS EURO 8.00.

5 minutesAdmission Ticket Not Included

Imperial Hotel Tramontano

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.

15 minutesAdmission Ticket Free

Chiostro di San Francesco

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.