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Neither it would be entirely inappropriato to found a poetic upon the sweet liqueur of lemons that, for great other people's promptness, has lost the right to officially confer upon some name with which it is universally known. But, what liqueur calls limoncello or in other way, the perfume of the yellow lemons, big, matured on the branches, it makes him/it unmistakable. It takes the bark of about ten lemons allowed to soak for at least three weeks to make a liter of limoncello. How much enough because, returned alone once to house, the perfume and the taste recalls the memory of the innumerable limonaies that you/they model the landscape in competition with the palms, with the naked rocks of the cliffs, with the blue one never too threateningly intense of the gulf in Naples. Then, while one is here to Sorrento it is obvious that I/you/he/she visit the places that all the guides recommend to see: house Correale with his/her courtyards of maiolica, the Museum Correale of Terranova with his beautiful harvests of ancient marbles, the Cathedral with the beautiful inlays of the choir.

Speaking of wood: it is not a preciousness reserved to the decorations of the Cathedral. Rather it is one of the most vivacious and interesting handicraft activities of Sorrento, and venir is really difficult street from the city without having allowed to go to the temptation to take away a piece of tradition. With in suitcase a wood box from the cover, a delicious copper (other production typical of the handicraft tradition sorrentina) object and, naturally, at least a bottle of limoncello, the comforting feeling is had to go home something whose evocative value of the place goes well over that of the thing in itself. Some like the hundred thieves professionals, dilettantes and entirely impromptu that for a long time they ransack the archaeological sites of Ercolano and Pompeii. With the difference that our purchases don't spoil us the party with the senses of guilt for the committed crime.

Sorrento, how many definitions are been attributed to this place, more one of the affirm destinations of the international tourism.

Sorrento country of the poet Torquato Tasso, that was born here in 1544, kind Sorrento, Sorrento: earth of the colors, Sorrento: earth of the Sirens, Sorrento city of the gardens of citrus fruit, etc. In the same period they intensified him all the more traditional working activities, what the agriculture, the maritime commerce and finally and progressively that tourist industry that currently represents the carrying sector of the economy sorrentina.

Besides the well notes walnut-trees sorrentine, of greatness and particular goodness and to the delicious Limoncello (liqueur of lemons), the kitchen sorrentina is also famous for the use, in a lot of dishes, of the Mozzarella milk's fior with its full and delicate taste at the same time.

Today Sorrento is a modern town with over hundred pleasant hotel exercises, it is center of a prestigious and rich Museum (Correale of Terranova) that guards important testimonies both of the history of the city and of the purest artisan tradition of the wood. It is center of remarkable cultural (prize scientific City of Sorrento) demonstrations, musical (Musical Summer Sorrentina), cinema (International Meetings of the Cinema) as well as stings of ideal departure for all the tourist places of the outskirts (Capri, Ischia, Naples, Ercolano, Pompeii, Positano, Amalfi) and then...