Instead of Sorrento
Instead of Sorrento: coastal towns within 90 minutes
Sorrento is where the coaches sleep. It is a working town with a good harbour, and it has become the car park for the Amalfi Coast and Pompeii at once.
The peninsula behind it, and the Cilento further south, are the same cliffs and lemon terraces on a road nobody has to queue on.
Coastal towns in our catalogue within 90 minutes of Sorrento by road, ranked by outside recognition. Sorrento itself and the other famous places are left out. 18 towns match; the 12 best-recognised are below.
Instead of Sorrento
Sorrento · 15,407 residents · Campania
- FuroreSalerno
Coastal town · Borghi più belli d'Italia
- From Sorrento
- 46m by car
- Residents
- 688
- When to go
- May–Sep
- Conca dei MariniSalerno
Coastal town · Borghi più belli d'Italia
- From Sorrento
- 40m by car
- Residents
- 664
- When to go
- May–Sep
- AtraniSalerno
Coastal town · Borghi più belli d'Italia
- From Sorrento
- 44m by car
- Residents
- 797
- When to go
- May–Sep
- Vietri sul MareSalerno
Coastal town · Borghi più belli d'Italia
- From Sorrento
- 1h 3m by car
- By train
- Reachable
- Residents
- 7,180
- When to go
- May–Sep
- AmalfiSalerno
Coastal town · UNESCO
- From Sorrento
- 46m by car
- Residents
- 4,729
- When to go
- May–Sep
The 5 best-recognised of the 18 towns that match. Drive times measured by road from Sorrento. More of them follow below.
Furore
Province: Salerno · 300 m
The Amalfi Coast village with no piazza and no center, scattered on rock walls 300 meters above the only fjord in southern Italy.
Conca dei Marini
Province: Salerno · 138 m
A coastal hamlet of 664 people on the Amalfi Coast, home to a monastery pastry and a sea cave that glows green.
Atrani
Province: Salerno · 21 m
The smallest commune in Italy by area, twelve hectares of stacked houses where the Amalfi Coast pinches shut around a single piazza.
Vietri sul Mare
Province: Salerno · 80 m
The eastern end of the Amalfi Coast at 80 meters, the ceramics town since the fifteenth century, the gateway between Salerno and the cliff road.
Amalfi
Province: Salerno · 6 m
The first Italian maritime republic and the coast it named, six meters above the sea between cliffs that close around the duomo's steps.
Pompei
Province: Napoli · 30 m
The Roman city buried by Vesuvius in 79 AD, dug back up since 1748, and a modern town around Bartolo Longo's 1876 sanctuary.
Tramonti
Province: Salerno · 321 m
The inland side of the Amalfi Coast, thirteen hamlets on the Lattari slopes producing wine and an exported pizza dough.
Praiano
Province: Salerno · 120 m
The Amalfi commune between Positano and Amalfi where the doges of the maritime republic kept their summer residences and the Path of the Gods starts.
Torre Annunziata
Province: Napoli · 15 m
Capital of Italian pasta in the interwar period and home of the Roman Villa di Poppea, on the bay at the foot of Vesuvius.
Cetara
Province: Salerno · 10 m
The Amalfi Coast's working tuna and anchovy port, where colatura di alici is still aged in chestnut barrels in the cellars behind the marina.
Ercolano
Province: Napoli · 44 m
Ercolano is the modern town built directly over Herculaneum, the Roman seaside resort buried under 25m of pyroclastic mud in AD 79 rather than the ash that fell on Pompeii, which is why its wood, papyrus, and upper floors survive when no other Roman site's do.
Minori
Province: Salerno · 13 m
The smaller of the two Rheginnae, where a first-century Roman maritime villa sits four blocks from the Tyrrhenian beach.
Drive times measured by road from Sorrento. A town with no time shown is one the router could not reach, usually because it is served by ferry. How this data is built.