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Sorrento historical outline
Sorrento, how many definitions have been ascribed to this locality, one of the most well-known international tourist sights.
Sorrento, native city of the poet Torquato Tasso, who was born here in 1544; kind Sorrento; Sorrento: land of colours; Sorrento: land of the Mermaids; Sorrento, the city of the orange and lemon groves...
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Monuments
In the lanes of the old city centre, still untouched in spite of the progress and mass tourism, have survived churches and ancient monasteries, keepers of valuable memories. Centuries old palaces and Durazzo portals evidence the splendour of the noble families of Sorrento. Via S. Cesareo, the lively "decumanus"...
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Museums
Museum Correale di Terranova
Museum-workshop of wooden tarsia
Archaeological Museum of Sorrento peninsula "Georges Vallet" Villa Fondi
Antiquarium Aequano - Silio Italico
Mineralogical Museum "Fondazione Discepolo"...
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