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Photos II : Sorrento - Marina Grande Text II |
Photos I : Sorrento - Center |
Marina Grande - Fishing harbour |
Picturesque site with a view to Vesuvius (+ click) |
Repairing trawl nets (+ click) |
Fishing harbour. Repairing trawl nets (+ click) |
Marina Grande with fish restaurants (+ click) |
Here is a place, where you can sit outside on the waterfront. Inside the house you detect by the fotos at the wall that Sofia Loren has already been here. |
Vesuviana terminal stop |
Way down to the port (Aliscafi and Traghetti).
From Piazza di Tasso, which was built over a river valley, you go (right picture) through this valley to the landing stages of aliscafi and traghetti.
If you look down from Piazza di Tasso on the opposite (inland) side of the valley (left picture) you see ... |
... the historic mill in the river valley beneath Piazza di Tasso. (+ click) |
The valley of the mill branches into another valley parallel to the coast. Thus Sorrento was protected all around. |
Arts and crafts of Sorrento: Inlays (+ click) |
Inlays in a shop near Piazza Sant'Antonino |
Marina Piccola at the end oft the valley of the mill |
Port with landing stages for aliscafi and traghetti liners (+ click) |
Piazza di Tasso with monument of S.Antonino Abate |
Monument of Torquato Tasso. |
Aerial: Sorrento (+ click)
Sorrento(maps.google) |
At the cap: So-called Bagni (baths) della Regina Giovanna. Probably used as a sheltered small harbour. (+ click) |
At the cap: The remains show the floor plan of a former Roman villa. Beneath ... (+ click) |
... are the ruins of the Basement vault. (+ click) |
Photos II : Sorrento - Marina Grande |
Photos I : Sorrento - Center |
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