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10 Facts About Sorrento

1.

Sorrento is a town overlooking the Bay of Naples in Southern Italy.

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2.

The Amalfi Drive, connecting Sorrento and Amalfi, is a narrow road along the high cliffs above the Tyrrhenian Sea.

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3.

However, Sorrento remained one of the most important centres of southern Campania.

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4.

Sorrento entered into the Neapolitan Republic of 1799, but in vain.

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5.

In 1861 Sorrento was officially annexed to the new Kingdom of Italy.

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6.

Sorrento has been visited by Lord Byron, John Keats, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Charles Dickens, Richard Wagner, Henrik Ibsen, and Friedrich Nietzsche.

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7.

Sorrento was the birthplace of the poet Torquato Tasso, author of the Gerusalemme Liberata.

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8.

Local football team is Football Club Sorrento that plays at the Stadio Italia, and currently plays in the Eccellenza Campania of the Italian Football League.

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9.

Sorrento is served by ferry or hydrofoil from Naples or Capri as well as by boat services from the ports of the Bay of Naples and the Sorrentine Peninsula.

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10.

Sorrento is connected to Naples by the Circumvesuviana rail line.

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