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Sorrento reduced mobility accessible Italian tours is a small city in Campania, Italy. It is a popular tourist destination.

The town can be reached easily from Naples and Pompeii, as it lies at the south-eastern end of the Circumvesuviana rail line.

Sorrento reduced mobility accessible Italian tours overlooks the Bay of Naples, as the key place of the Sorrentine Peninsula, and many viewpoints in the city allow sight of Naples itself ( visible across the bay ), Vesuvius and the island of Capri.

Sorrento reduced mobility accessible Italian tours is famous for the production of limoncello, an alcoholic digestif made from lemon rinds, alcohol, water and sugar.

The arrangement of the modern streets preserves that of the ancient town, and the disposition of the walled paths which divide the plain to the east seems to date in like manner from Roman times.

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No ruins are now preserved in the town itself, but there are many remains in the villa quarter to the east of the town on the road to Stabiae, of which traces still exist, running much higher than the modern road, across the mountain.

The site of one of the largest is now occupied by an local Hotel, under the terrace of which a small theater was found in 1855; an ancient rock-cut tunnel descends hence to the shore.

In 1861 Sorrento was officially annexed to the new Kingdom of Italy.

In the following years Sorrento reduced mobility accessible Italian tours it confirmed and increased its status of one of the most renowned tourist destinations of Italy.

Famous people who visited it include Lord Byron, Keats, Goethe and Walter Scott.

Sorrento was the birthplace of the poet Torquato Tasso author of the Gerusalemme Liberata.

Sorrento was quite famously featured in the early-20th-century song Torna a Surriento with lyrics by Giambattista de Curtis, brother of one of the first singers to record the song, Ernesto de Curtis.

In the 1920s, famous Soviet writer Maxim Gorky lived in Sorrento.

In the 1940s, widely renowned astro-physicist Ian Dickson lived in Sorrento.

He owned one of the most expensive houses on the Bay of Naples.

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