Palazzo Veniero in Sorrento
The colors of Sorrento always amaze even those who know them for a lifetime. The city is located at the foot of a majestic ridge of tuff that changes color at any time of day, and before, of course, the sea. Like all ports more accustomed to history, even in these waters have gone many different peoples, leaving the faces of the people part of their DNA, Etruscans, Greeks, Romans, Lombards, Normans, Aragonese. I still try to imagine the past is in the shade of a nose, perhaps Etruscan intensity of a look, maybe Norman or Spanish. Sorrento is a very pleasant place, a town of 17,000 inhabitants (ZIP code 80067, TEL. 081) on the northern coast of the peninsula of Sorrento. Its prime location makes it a tourist center and seaside resort of international renown. Probably of Greek origin, was controlled by the Romans in '89. C. Episcopalian, was independent duchy from the seventh century. Included in the Norman kingdom in 1137. It has interesting monuments including, remains of Roman villas, the cathedral (XI cent.), The Villa Correale (museum), Palazzo Verniero (XIII cent.) And the Cloister of San Francesco (XIV c.).
Legend has it that derives its name from the mythical mermaids, half woman half fish, which pushed the sailors to wreck against the rocks. More certain is the Greek domination dating back to 474 BC and 420 BC and then Sunni, during which Sorrento is enriched and assumes the appearance of a real city. It is, however, in the Roman era which became an important tourist resort for the nobility: rise villas, aqueducts and cisterns that still there are traces. When the Roman Empire Sorrento is a victim of the Lombard invasions and Norman.
The historical process that led to the establishment of the Duchy of Sorrento is part of the evolutionary logic of particularism common both to the Byzantine (Naples, Gaeta, Amalfi and Sorrento), as well as those Lombards (Benevento, Salerno and Capua) in southern Italy. The Duchy of Sorrento, which encompassed the entire peninsula from Sarno to Campanella, had a certain resonance mainly due to the diffusion of the construction industry and the shipbuilding industry, maritime trade and the production of fruit and wine. The political class Sorrento, however, was made??by an aristocracy which based its power on land ownership and the sector of maritime trade remained limited to the activity of small local businesses. Sorrento therefore never became a maritime power as could be.
The creation of the Archdiocese occurred in all likelihood result in the formation of the Duchy. The latter was subjected for a time to the Lombard Duke of Salerno (1039). Regained its independence (1052) with the help Norman, accepted the protection increasingly linking its policy to that of the Duke of Capua, with whom he was swept up in the war against the other leader, Roger II of Hauteville (1133 or 1134).
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Legend has it that derives its name from the mythical mermaids, half woman half fish, which pushed the sailors to wreck against the rocks. More certain is the Greek domination dating back to 474 BC and 420 BC and then Sunni, during which Sorrento is enriched and assumes the appearance of a real city. It is, however, in the Roman era which became an important tourist resort for the nobility: rise villas, aqueducts and cisterns that still there are traces. When the Roman Empire Sorrento is a victim of the Lombard invasions and Norman.
The historical process that led to the establishment of the Duchy of Sorrento is part of the evolutionary logic of particularism common both to the Byzantine (Naples, Gaeta, Amalfi and Sorrento), as well as those Lombards (Benevento, Salerno and Capua) in southern Italy. The Duchy of Sorrento, which encompassed the entire peninsula from Sarno to Campanella, had a certain resonance mainly due to the diffusion of the construction industry and the shipbuilding industry, maritime trade and the production of fruit and wine. The political class Sorrento, however, was made??by an aristocracy which based its power on land ownership and the sector of maritime trade remained limited to the activity of small local businesses. Sorrento therefore never became a maritime power as could be.
The creation of the Archdiocese occurred in all likelihood result in the formation of the Duchy. The latter was subjected for a time to the Lombard Duke of Salerno (1039). Regained its independence (1052) with the help Norman, accepted the protection increasingly linking its policy to that of the Duke of Capua, with whom he was swept up in the war against the other leader, Roger II of Hauteville (1133 or 1134).
When You book a nice apartment in Sorrento Apartment in Sorrento, with us You'll realize how beautiful and magic this town is.
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