Is it possible to visit Sorrento in only one day starting from Rome ? Of course !! Sorrento is far from Rome around 150 miles and is located on a rock coast along the Gulf of Naples, that guests every day fascinating tourists and visitors, attracted by breathtaking views and landscapes of the romantic south of Italy.
Rome airport is organizing tours to Sorrento since 1979 and its experience has been always recognized by its customers.
The town gives its name to the Sorrento Peninsula, a great area extended from Vico Equense to Massa Lubrense. This area, thanks to its geographical shape, suspended between the green hills and the blue of the seas, is from the ancient times a great attraction of the southern Italy. With its almost twelve thousands accommodations in over 150 accommodations facilities and over ten extra accommodations – among camping, bed & breakfast, residences, hostels, holiday villages and thirty farm holidays – the Sorrento coast is one of the most popular destinations of the entire Campania region. It is also the ideal destination for Italian visitors and foreign tourists, that want to plan excursions to Capri, Ischia, Pompei, Amalfi, Positano, Ercolano, Paestum and Vesuvius, places located at a distance of 50 Kilometres.

You can choose to join the crowd in Capri shipping from Sorrento and live unforgettable days sitting at the many bars in the “piazzetta” , shopping at the elegant boutiques in Camerelle Street or eating at the local restaurants in Capri, where the person sitting at the table next to yours may be a wealthy and famous one.
But you can also choose the peace and quiet of the streets in Anacapri, locateed on the top of this famous island or the solitary paths to the sea with breathtaking landscapes.
Capri has 7 sq miles of natural and artificial beauties. The Emperor Augustus was the first one to discover this magnificent place, it was the year 29 B.C. After him Tiberius and many others: Lenin, Mussolini, the Swedish doctor Axel Munthe and the factory owners Knupp. Each one of them left something to the island which has never stopped enchanting people.

Sorrento was first a Phoenician colony , after that it became a port frequented by Greeks for the commercial activity with Naples and with others southern cities. It was named by Greeks “Syrenusion” or “Syreon” that means Siren’s land, the Sirens were the mythological creatures half woman and half fish, that Homer told in his famous work “Odyssey”. These creatures with their song could fascinate the sailors.
After the rule of Oscans and Sannites it was submitted by Romans. The Romans appreciated so much the beauties of this place that during the imperial period it was elected an holiday destination of patricians, as the numerous villas witness. It was the native country of Torquato Tasso, famous italian poet of the 17th century. From time immemorial Sorrento has exercised a particular charm which has attracted poets and literary men like Goethe, Lamartine, Stendhal, De Bouchard, Byron to D’Annunzio, Ibsen, Douglas, musicians like Rossini, Liszt, Mendelssohn, Wagner, painters like Pinelli, Fernet, Lindstrom, photographers like De Luca and the brothers Alinari, directors like De Sica, Gallone and Mastronardo.

Among the famous visitors of Sorrento we can remember also Enrico Caruso, Giacomo Casanova, Scipione Breislak, Marion Crawford, Charles Dickens, Helman Melvill, Friedtich Nietzche ed Axel Munthe. This coasting town was included in the eighteenth- century among the main destinations of the Ground Tour, a journey among the most significant Italian cities, that was made by the foreign intellectuals who wanted to study in depth the Italian history, art and culture.

Between the monuments and the antique villas, with Rome airport you can discover the testimonies of famous hosts, who between 1700 and 1800 chose this place as source of inspiration inserting it in the "Grand Tour", that journey across the most significant Italian cities that each European noble offspring effected to complete his personal culture.

When in Italy do not forget to spend a great holiday and an unforgettable honeymoon in Sorrento with the tours organized by Rome- airport.

Rome airport is a minibus tour company based in Rome that organizes Rome airport transfers, sightseeing tours in Rome but its experience made this company so expert driving with its customers until Sorrento to let them discover the beauties of the south of Italy, that people so often says they'll be back to Sorrento again very soon.