Piano di Sorrento

Piano di Sorrento sits at ninety-six meters on the tuff terrace of the Sorrentine peninsula, four kilometers east of Sorrento, thirty kilometers from Napoli. The upper plain has been inhabited since the second millennium BC: pottery and a necropolis from the Gaudo culture were excavated between the frazioni of Trinità and San Massimo. The town was tied to Sorrento until 1808, when Joseph Bonaparte's reform separated it as an autonomous comune.

The local name, Caruotto, comes from the Latin carottum, quarry, after the tuff pits that fed the building of the peninsula. The Basilica di San Michele Arcangelo, ninth century in origin, was raised to papal basilica status by Benedict XV in 1914 and holds two large inlaid wooden doors. The Villa Fondi de Sangro, a neoclassical 1840 villa above the cliff, now houses the Georges Vallet archaeological museum and faces the Marina di Cassano below. The marina has black volcanic sand, fishing boats and a small port that still works.

From Naples / Salerno (NAP), about 55 minutes by car.

Rome (FCO) is about 3h 40m away.

By car from the centre of Naples 49 minutes or Salerno 55 minutes.

There is a railway station in the comune, so you can arrive without a car.

Coming from Naples?

Coming by train into Napoli Centrale? Piano di Sorrento is about 49 minutes away by road.

Every town within reach of Naples / Salerno airport.