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Sorrento Peninsula. Coordinates: 40.6246°N 14.4168°E. Map of the Sorrentine Peninsula. Map of the Gulf of Naples. View of the peninsula near Massa Lubrense. The Sorrento Peninsula or Sorrentine Peninsula is a peninsula located in southern Italy which separates the Gulf of Naples to the north from the Gulf of Salerno to the south.
Sorrento (/ s ə ˈ r ɛ n t oʊ /, Italian: [sorˈrɛnto], Neapolitan: [sorˈrɛntə]; Latin: Surrentum) is a town overlooking the Bay of Naples in Southern Italy.A popular tourist destination, Sorrento is located on the Sorrentine Peninsula at the south-eastern terminus of the Circumvesuviana rail line, within easy access from Naples and Pompei.
Maiori. / 40.650°N 14.650°E / 40.650; 14.650. Maiori (originally in Latin: Rheginna Maior) is a town and comune on the Amalfi coast in the province of Salerno ( Campania, Italy). It has been a popular tourist resort since Roman times, with the longest unbroken stretch of beach on the Amalfi coastline.
Italy’s rugged southern shore on the Sorrentine peninsula is 50km of world-famous pastel houses, fishing villages and magical grottos. From A-list hotspot Positano to Ravello, Amalfi and Vietri ...
Amalfi Coast. / 40.650°N 14.600°E / 40.650; 14.600. The Amalfi Coast ( Italian: Costiera amalfitana or Costa d'Amalfi) is a stretch of coastline in southern Italy overlooking the Tyrrhenian Sea and the Gulf of Salerno. It is located south of the Sorrentine Peninsula and north of the Cilentan Coast .
The pleasant climate made it a renowned resort, as recounted by Virgil and manifested in the numerous luxurious villas that lined the coast from the Gulf of Pozzuoli to the Sorrentine peninsula. Lucullus built a vast villa estate here covering large parts of what would become the later city.
Positano was a port of the Amalfi Republic in medieval times, and prospered during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. By the mid-nineteenth century, however, the town had fallen on hard times. More than half the population emigrated, mostly to America. [citation needed]
Coordinates: 40°31′N 14°42′E. The Gulf of Salerno seen from the Amalfi Coast. The Gulf of Salerno ( Italian: Golfo di Salerno) is a gulf of the Tyrrhenian Sea in the coast of the province of Salerno in south-western Italy . The northern part of this coast is the Costiera Amalfitana, which ends at Punta Campanella and includes towns like ...