This Sorrento tourist map marks 10 top sights and a 2.4 km walking route from Marina Piccola to Marina Grande: up from the ferry port, through the old town and down to the fishing harbour. It is free to view, print and download.
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Each sight is described at more length on the page on tourist attractions in Sorrento.
The numbers below match the pins on the map, the PDF and the video. There is no metro in Sorrento: the first 9 sights are seen on foot along the walking route, up from the ferry port to the old town and down to the fishing harbour, and the last one, the Bagni della Regina Giovanna, is a bus ride and a footpath west of the town.
The PDF is the same map on three A4 pages. Page 1 holds the map with the numbered legend, how to get around and the licence. Page 2 describes the first seven sights with a photo, the full address and access, and page 3 adds the Sedile Dominova, Marina Grande and the Bagni della Regina Giovanna, with the four areas of the town. In English, 1.3 MB. Edition: October 2026.
Start of a 2.4 km (1.5 miles) route, about 35 min on foot with the climbs and without the visits; the time shown for each leg is for flat ground. The ferry and hydrofoil port lies below the cliff north of Piazza Tasso, free to walk along the quays. Climb from the port to the clifftop gardens.
A clifftop park built between 1877 and 1879 on the former gardens of the Franciscan friars, free to enter. Its parapet is a terrace over the Gulf of Naples, with Vesuvius across the water, and olive trees shade the paths behind. The cloister of San Francesco is next door.
A medieval cloister beside the church of San Francesco, remodelled in the 15th century, when the town held its meetings inside and kept the seal of its records here. Restored in the early 20th century, it hosts concerts and exhibitions and is free to step into. Walk east through the old town to the basilica.
The basilica of Sorrento's patron saint, who is buried in the crypt. Whale bones, linked to the child the saint is said to have saved from a whale, are kept in the entrance porch. Free to enter; the feast day is 14 February. Piazza Tasso is just to the south.
The main square, named after the poet Torquato Tasso, who was born in the town. It was laid out in the 19th century over the head of an old gorge, on ground once called Largo del Castello, and the Santuario della Madonna del Carmine overlooks it. Via Luigi De Maio runs down from here to the port.
A deep gorge in the tufa just south of Piazza Tasso, with the ruins of old mills at the bottom. It is seen free from the railing above; the floor of the gorge is not open to visitors. Walk back past the square and west along Corso Italia to the cathedral.
The cathedral of Saints Philip and James, free to enter, with a side door on Corso Italia. Inside are the carved and inlaid wooden choir stalls of the 1930s and, in the first chapel on the right, the font where Torquato Tasso was baptised in 1544. The Sedile Dominova is a short walk north.
An open loggia on Via San Cesareo, with frescoed walls under a dome of yellow and green tiles, seen free from the street at any time. From here the last and longest leg, 0.8 km, heads west and down to the old harbour.
Sorrento's old fishing harbour at the western edge of the town, its houses packed against the cliff. The small church of Sant'Anna, completed by the fishermen in 1697, marks its centre. Free to wander at any hour. Via Marina Grande leads back up to the town.
The centre of Sorrento is walkable: the 9 stops on the route cover 2.4 km, about 35 min with the climbs and without the visits. The town sits some 50 to 60 m above its two harbours, so the route climbs from the ferry port and drops again at the end, on the longest leg, the 0.8 km from the Sedile Dominova down to Marina Grande.
There is no metro. EAV runs the Circumvesuviana line L1 from Napoli Porta Nolana and Napoli Piazza Garibaldi, via Pompei Scavi, to its terminus at Sorrento station, about 350 m east of Piazza Tasso. Ferries and hydrofoils, run by NLG and Caremar, sail from Marina Piccola to Naples, Capri, Positano and Amalfi, with fewer sailings in winter.
Sights outside the walking route:
Lines and network maps of EAV, the operator of the train and of bus line A (in Italian) >
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Three photos in the PDF and the video carry their own credit: Basilica di Sant'Antonino, "Basilica di Sant'Antonino, Sorrento" by Mentnafunangann, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0; Sorrento Cathedral, "Facade of Sorrento Cathedral" by MentNFG, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0; Sedile Dominova, "Frescoes inside the Sedile Dominova, Sorrento" by Berthold Werner, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.
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