The Capodimonte porcelain
The largest holdings of Naples's royal china.
Carlo Dani — CC BY-SA 4.0 · Own work — CC BY 3.0 · Tremej — CC BY-SA 4.0 · Filippo Espo — CC BY-SA 4.0
The Correale is "Italy's most beautiful provincial museum" by its old and earned title: the villa of the Counts Correale, willed by the last brothers (1902) with four centuries of Neapolitan collecting taste — its four floors the south's elegant treasury: Neapolitan furniture and mirrors, the largest holdings of royal Capodimonte porcelain, clocks and Murano glass, and the Posillipo school's view paintings that portrayed the bay before cameras — with the Sorrentine intarsia room crowning the local craft. Then the finale worth the ticket alone: the villa garden descending through palms and citrus to a terrace at the very cliff edge — the whole bay from Vesuvius to Ischia, with reading benches and a quiet the town's terraces never know. It is Sorrento's one and sufficient cultural half-day — and elegance's refuge when the lanes fill.
The largest holdings of Naples's royal china.
The bay painted before photography — nineteenth-century views.
Vesuvius to Ischia with a reading bench — Sorrento's quiet secret.
Via Correale 50, 80067 Sorrento
Santuario della Madonna del CarmineA church on Piazza Tasso, the main square of Sorrento, in the very centre of the6 minutes walk4.6
Piazza TassoThe coffee tables of Piazza Tasso stand on a buried ravine. When Sorrento laid o6 minutes walk4.4
Valley of the MillsA minute's walk from Piazza Tasso the pavement stops at an iron railing and the 7 minutes walk4.4
Cloister of San FrancescoA fourteenth-century cloister in central Sorrento, among the loveliest small cou9 minutes walk4.5
Sorrento CathedralSorrento's cathedral on its main street is the house of the craft that made the 10 minutes walk4.7Precisely therefore: between arrival and tomorrow's excursions sit two usually empty afternoon hours — and this is their one elegant filling: real art queueless and a view garden closing the day. Great-museum seekers have Naples — this is for those sleeping here nights.