The legend is, it was Sorrento where guileful Sirens tried to seduce Ulysses off his way by their wonderful voices. Ulysses somehow managed to resist their magic, but many men since those ancient times could not resist the magic of Sorrento itself.
This city was a favorite recreation place of Greeks and Romans, when they took this city over some 2500 years ago. Since then many celebrities used to stay here, enjoying the sun, sea, incredible views of double-cone of Vesuvius, dominating Naples, and unmatchable atmosphere of Sorrento. Henrik Ibsen wrote his immortal Peer Gynt here. Nietzsche, Wagner, Caruso and Pavarotti were keen admirers of this pearl of Campania.

Greek and Roman relics (including the only temple to Sirens in the World), ancient protection walls and a unique mixture of architecture styles from any corner of Mediterranean, combined with 50-yard cliffs rising up right from sky-blue sea are what makes so many people get enchanted.

As Sorrento used to be – and still is – one of the most ancient tourist destinations, there are a lot of cheap hotels in Sorrento.
All buildings of Sorrento apartments are unique and a lot of them were built in the XIX century and they keep their exclusiveness though they couldn’t be without modernization. You can find a budget accommodation in Sorrento, for example, there are cheap Sorrento hotels not far from the centre, even on a cliff above the sea with the view on the Bay of Naples and Vesuvius. A tourist can find cheap Sorrento hotels of the Mediterranean style. In most inexpensive hotels in Sorrento you’ll find restaurants, American bars, terraces, free parking, etc. Sorrento hostels also offer beach services: chaise-longues and sunshades. There is a romantic Sorrento hotel in the fisherman's settlement in the beautiful bay Marina di Puolo. This hotel offers its guests a calm sandy beach with pure-clean water.

If Sorrento were human, it could have not helped but boast of its beaches, which adjoin Marina Piccola, Marina Grande harbors. It will better to hire a catamaran float off somewhat further into a bay, where a fantastic view of Sorrento opens up before your eyes.
In summer it’s unbearably hot in Sorrento. Before night breeze comes blowing from the sea, cooling the city down a bit, the only thing that can deliver a traveler of the heat is thick stone walls of houses, that keep night’s coolness well all day long.
Sorrento isn’t crowded when noon, but throngs of native and visitant youth pour out into the street, filling bars, clubs, restaurants and shops in the main business street of Sorrento with wonderful cathedral built in the XV century.

Native cuisine doesn’t differ from traditional Italian cookery, the same paste and pizza, but cooked with large quantities of seafood. Sorrento’s fish restaurants are especially worth visiting. The most pleasant of them are near the port Marina Piccola. Everybody is dazzled with а wide variety of fish products: sardines, tuna-fishes, sea-eels, shrimps and other exotics of the Mediterranean.
Besides all history, architecture, landscape and cuisine things there is one more ‘try-or-die’ feature of Sorrento, which is Lacrima Christi or Limoncello – lemon liqueur made of fruits gathered in famous Sorrento lemon groves. It’s said to be so strong that one bottle can be drunk for years. Though, hosts of local liquor stores know it well that having drunk a shot, guests rarely can resist a temptation to accompany it with another one.