The wood-mosaic doors
Thousands of inlaid pieces โ the craft displayed as devotion.
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Fine wood inlay flourishing here since the Renaissance in local olive, lemon and walnut โ boxes, tables and pictures the town exported to Europe. The nearby MUTA museum (the historic intarsia house) shows its masterpieces for the curious โ and genuine buying happens in workshops, not the tourist shipping shops.
Cathedral, centre lanes to Via San Cesareo, the Villa Comunale terrace over bay and Vesuvius, then the descent to fishermen's Marina Grande for lunch โ two hours telling the town before or after the coast trips.
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Sorrento's cathedral on its main street is the house of the craft that made the town famous for centuries: intarsia โ wood inlaid into pictures from thousands of tinted pieces โ reaches its spiritual summit here: the church doors, choir stalls and stations of the cross are all wooden mosaic from Sorrento's master hands, the building the town's showcase of its craft before being its cathedral. The structure wears the Mediterranean's usual layers โ Romanesque origin, Baroque dress, modern front โ and its bell tower stands on a Roman base of reused columns, crowned by the coloured majolica clock that marks Corso Italia. Twenty minutes between lane-wanderings suffice โ and they are the quietest of central Sorrento's crowded summer moments.
Thousands of inlaid pieces โ the craft displayed as devotion.
A base recycled from ancient Surrentum.
Corso Italia, 80067 Sorrento