🍋Limone di Sorrento IGP

The towns

Known for it

• Sorrento

  Province: Napoli · 50 m

  The Roman Surrentum on a tuff cliff above the Bay of Napoli, sacked by the Turks in 1558.

Inside the production zone

Towns of ours that the Limone di Sorrento IGP zone covers, read from the denomination’s own published rules. Lying inside a zone is a smaller claim than being the place people mean when they say the name, which is why these sit apart from the ones above.

• Anacapri

  Province: Napoli · 275 m

  The upper half of Capri, 150 meters above its famous twin.

• Capri

  Province: Napoli · 142 m

  The 142-meter Tyrrhenian island town where Tiberius governed Rome for a decade from twelve villas above limestone cliffs.

• Massa Lubrense

  Province: Napoli · 121 m

  The Sorrentine Peninsula's second-largest commune by area, after Vico Equense, stretching from Sorrento across Punta Campanella to the Gulf of Salerno, Capri three miles offshore.

• Piano di Sorrento

  Province: Napoli · 96 m

  The quieter Sorrentine plain four kilometers from Sorrento, autonomous since 1808, with prehistoric Gaudo pottery and a black-sand marina at the foot of the cliff.

• Vico Equense

  Province: Napoli · 90 m

  The northern gate of the Sorrento peninsula, a clifftop town of ninety meters above the Bay of Napoli.

Catalogue note: this is what we can document, not everything that qualifies. Where a zone is written in law as a whole province rather than a list of communes, we never expand it to towns, so a town missing here has not been ruled out. Plenty of comuni inside the wider zone also sit outside our catalogue of 1,000. See how the data is sourced.