Sorrento in 2 days, on foot

This 2-day self-guided walking plan for Sorrento covers 15 narrated sights in an easy day-by-day order. Each day is split into a morning and an afternoon loop, and every stop has a two to three minute audio story in the Gingerguide app.

You set the pace: this is a suggested order, not a schedule. Walk it in 2 days, or stretch it out. Reorder freely; Sorrento rewards a detour.

Day 1

Morning

1. Piazza Tasso: The lively main square of Sorrento, centred on a monument to the poet Torquato Tasso and framed by outdoor cafés, the social hub of the town and starting point for exploring the peninsula.
2. Duomo di Sorrento: Sorrento's Cathedral, rebuilt in the 15th century, featuring the town's distinctive intarsia woodwork tradition on the choir stalls, a marble bishop's throne, and a campanile with ancient Roman columns at its base.
3. Marina Grande: Sorrento's original fishing village, reached by a steep descent from the clifftop town, colourful traditional boats (gozzo sorrentino), excellent fresh fish restaurants, and an authentic community that predates the tourist town above.
4. Marina Piccola: Ferry Port: Sorrento's main ferry port, with regular services to Capri, Positano, Amalfi, and Naples, the gateway to the entire Bay of Naples and the view of Vesuvius from the water is one of the great views of Italy.

Afternoon

1. Sedile Dominova: A remarkable 15th-century open loggia with a yellow and green majolica dome, the former assembly hall of the Sorrento nobility, now a social club for locals and one of the most distinctive small architectural gems on the Amalfi Coast.
2. Museo Correale di Terranova: A charming 18th-century villa overlooking the Bay of Naples, now housing Sorrento's finest art collection, Neapolitan paintings, Capodimonte porcelain, intarsia furniture, and Greek and Roman antiquities.
3. Cloisters of San Francesco: A peaceful 14th-century cloister with interlaced Moorish arches, attached to a Baroque church, one of the most beautiful small courtyards in southern Italy and a summer venue for classical music concerts.
4. Villa Comunale: A clifftop public garden with the most spectacular free view in Sorrento, looking across the Bay of Naples to Vesuvius, with the cliffs dropping sheer below you to the sea.

Day 2

Morning

1. Sorrento Intarsia Woodwork Tradition: Sorrento's most celebrated traditional craft, marquetry using dozens of differently coloured natural woods to create pictorial and geometric designs in furniture, musical boxes, and decorative panels, a tradition dating to the 17th century.
2. Limoncello and Sorrento Lemons: The Sorrento peninsula produces the finest lemons in Italy, the Limone di Sorrento IGP, and from them makes limoncello, the bright yellow liqueur that has become one of the most recognised products of the Italian south.
3. Corso Italia: Sorrento's main thoroughfare for the passeggiata, a lively pedestrianised street of shops, cafés, and restaurants, running through the heart of the historic centre and connecting Piazza Tasso to the rest of the peninsula.
4. Bagni della Regina Giovanna: A natural sea pool formed in the ruins of a Roman villa 3km west of Sorrento, a favourite swimming spot reachable by a clifftop walk, where a gap in the sea rocks creates a perfectly sheltered inlet of clear water.

Afternoon

1. Basilica di Sant'Antonino: Sorrento's oldest church dedicated to the town's patron saint, Sant'Antonino Abate, an 11th-century basilica containing extraordinary ex-votos including whale ribs, and the tomb of the saint who died in Sorrento around 625 AD.
2. Sorrento Covered Market: Sorrento's lively daily covered market just off the main Piazza Tasso, the place to buy the peninsula's famous IGP lemons, freshly made buffalo mozzarella, local tomatoes, and the agricultural produce of the Campanian countryside.
3. Sorrento as Gateway to the Region: Sorrento's greatest asset is its central position, from here, by ferry or car, you can reach Capri (25 minutes), Positano (50 minutes), Pompeii (30 minutes by train), Naples (1 hour by ferry), and Amalfi (1 hour 20 minutes), making it the ideal base for all of southern Italy's greatest sites.

Full Sorrento guide and all stops →