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Myths and legends: Sorrento has been sung by Humerus in his/her Odyssey and it seems that its name derives from the myth of the Sirens that the navigators bewitched with their song and then they suffocated them. But Ulisse, the Homeric hero, with an expedient he/she succeeded in passing uninjured along the coasts Sorrentine and the Sirens you/they were turned into the islets of the "Them Roosters "that they are found near the coast.

Another going up again legend to 1558 narrates us that during the invasion of the Turks, in the night of June 13, these stormed in the church of the saint patron S. Antonino ransacking and killing the citizens, they took the statue in silver of the saint and a bell.

When they loaded their loots, material and human, on their ships they realized that the boat on which it was the bell didn't succeed in stirring for the too weight. They decided therefore to get rid some bell and they threw her/it in sea near the Head Athenaeum. Since then he tells that the underwater bell sends forth of the you toll, every year on June 13, in the day of the anniversary of the looting. Among the other tourist attractions it is worth to still stop on the "beauties historical artistic" of Sorrento. Hotel Reservation.

The factory stayed in downfall for many years until, between 1558 and 1567, it began the work of reconstruction (that is immediately after the terrible Turkish invasion.) We know in fact from some documents that already in 1532 the viceroy Pedro Alvarez De Toledo had established that the burden for the construction of the surrounded strengthened competed to the city that necessarily had to protect of a defense "in proportion of the greatest danger that those coastlines raced." The old and weak boundaries were demolished and the surrounded bastionata was built. The surrounded bastionata resulted more effective to defensive level in as for the inside of the boundaries of the bastions, sets to the angles of the enclosure, there was a mass of terra;inoltre the bastions, of pentagonal form, they had the salient angle I pour the country.

Today what remains of the fortification it is the long line of understanding southern masonry the Door of Parsano with his/her bastions and the conclusive line toward the west said sea of the it Batons.

This line of masonry is lower in how much situated on the precipice and therefore "to the sure one from every scaling "and it concludes him with the Door of the Marina Grande. Also on this line they are still visible the two bastions.

The Seat Dominova The Seat Dominova was tied up to the public life of Sorrento since it gathered you a part of the nobility to orchestrate him on the politics. It deals with an ample space to regulate of square plant; two sides are closed from walls that they bring frescos, while the others two are open with vast arcs on the streets St. Caesarian and giuliani; the imposing dome is of the XVII century. Church and cloister of St. Francis

To the church of S. Francis Di Assisi is attached a valuable cloister of medieval epoch, with portico arabeggiante to arcs woven of which a part to round arcs of tufo on octagonal pillars.,