The best places to bask and bathe in and near Sorrento
Marina Grande Beach in Sorrento
Sorrento's beaches are small and quite crowded, especially in the summer months.
To enjoy the most beautiful beaches lapped by the crystalline waters you dream of, you'll have to leave the center of Sorrento.
Here are the best beaches in and near Sorrento:
Marina Grande is Sorrento's fishing village, famous for its excellent seafood restaurants. It also has a small volcanic sand beach where you can bask before or after your memorable lunch.
Directions: walk from Piazza Vittoria or take the local bus.
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Marina Grande
49 Via del MareMarina Grande is Sorrento's fishing village, famous for its excellent seafood restaurants. It also has a small volcanic sand beach where you can bask before or after your memorable lunch.
Directions: walk from Piazza Vittoria or take the local bus.
Marina Piccola Beach in Sorrento
Beneath Sorrento's Villa Comunale and next to the port, there is a small strip of volcanic sand occupied by a number of beach clubs.
Most of the beach clubs have a small area of the waterfront and sundeck over the water, where sun loungers and umbrellas are set up. It costs around EUR 15 to rent a lounger and umbrella for the day. All the beach clubs also offer restaurants and/or snack bars.
Directions: from the Villa Comunale, take the elevator down or continue along a short footpath. Otherwise, it's an easy walk from Piazza Tasso.
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Villa Comunale
Via San FrancescoBeneath Sorrento's Villa Comunale and next to the port, there is a small strip of volcanic sand occupied by a number of beach clubs.
Most of the beach clubs have a small area of the waterfront and sundeck over the water, where sun loungers and umbrellas are set up. It costs around EUR 15 to rent a lounger and umbrella for the day. All the beach clubs also offer restaurants and/or snack bars.
Directions: from the Villa Comunale, take the elevator down or continue along a short footpath. Otherwise, it's an easy walk from Piazza Tasso.
The Beaches of Regina Giovanna
"Regina Giovanna" is what locals call the small tongue of land which juts out into the sea where the Roman ruins of Pollius Felix' villa still stand (also known at the Capo di Sorrento). Through the ancient walls, you'll find a flight of stairs down to a small lagoon joined to the sea by an arch. This tiny private pool is where Queen Giovanna d'Angiò loved to bathe, hence the colloquio name of this stretch of coastline. It's the only place along the shore with easy access to the water, but it is in shade all day. On either side, the water's edge is bordered by large cliffs, making it more difficult to both dive in the water and, more importantly, climb back out.
If you continue along the pathway to the left, you'll reach an area known as Solara, with flat-topped rocks where you can sunbathe and with easier access into and out of the water. There is also a private beach club here which rents sun loungers.
Directions: take the bus (route A, Capo di Sorrento stop) or walk the 3 km from the center of Sorrento. There is also a parking lot nearby if have a car or scooter.
Capo di Sorrento
"Regina Giovanna" is what locals call the small tongue of land which juts out into the sea where the Roman ruins of Pollius Felix' villa still stand (also known at the Capo di Sorrento). Through the ancient walls, you'll find a flight of stairs down to a small lagoon joined to the sea by an arch. This tiny private pool is where Queen Giovanna d'Angiò loved to bathe, hence the colloquio name of this stretch of coastline. It's the only place along the shore with easy access to the water, but it is in shade all day. On either side, the water's edge is bordered by large cliffs, making it more difficult to both dive in the water and, more importantly, climb back out.
If you continue along the pathway to the left, you'll reach an area known as Solara, with flat-topped rocks where you can sunbathe and with easier access into and out of the water. There is also a private beach club here which rents sun loungers.
Directions: take the bus (route A, Capo di Sorrento stop) or walk the 3 km from the center of Sorrento. There is also a parking lot nearby if have a car or scooter.
Puolo
Locals from Sorrento particularly love the area known as Puolo, both for its beach and its easy access for families. There is a large stretch of beach here, and the water along the shore is quite shallow.
Puolo is divided into two sections, and each section has separate access from the road:
The free public beach includes the area known as Pignatella (with a rocky shore) and the sandy Puolo beach, which also has caffés, restaurants, and sun lounger and umbrella rentals.
The private beach is run by the Blumare Beach Club, and access is through the white gate. Here there is both a stretch of beach and a sundeck.
Directions: you can only reach Puolo by car or scooter.
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Marina di Puolo
Locals from Sorrento particularly love the area known as Puolo, both for its beach and its easy access for families. There is a large stretch of beach here, and the water along the shore is quite shallow.
Puolo is divided into two sections, and each section has separate access from the road:
The free public beach includes the area known as Pignatella (with a rocky shore) and the sandy Puolo beach, which also has caffés, restaurants, and sun lounger and umbrella rentals.
The private beach is run by the Blumare Beach Club, and access is through the white gate. Here there is both a stretch of beach and a sundeck.
Directions: you can only reach Puolo by car or scooter.
Marciano - Massa Lubrense
If you pass Massa Lubrense and continue on towards Termini (the furthest town on the Sorrento Peninsula), you'll reach the small village of Marciano with two waterfront areas:
Capitan Cook: a private rocky beach with an excellent restaurant.
Baia delle Sirene: a private beach club with beach, sundecks, and a restaurant.
Marciano
If you pass Massa Lubrense and continue on towards Termini (the furthest town on the Sorrento Peninsula), you'll reach the small village of Marciano with two waterfront areas:
Capitan Cook: a private rocky beach with an excellent restaurant.
Baia delle Sirene: a private beach club with beach, sundecks, and a restaurant.
Nerano, Marina del Cantone, Ieranto, Recommone
When you ask an Italian from Sorrento where they go to enjoy a day on the beach, chances are that they will answer, "Marina del Cantone, near Nerano!" This pretty bay on the south side of the peninsula has a large pebble beach, crystalline water, and a number of excellent restaurants serving the local specialty: "spaghetti alla Nerano", made with zucchini and provolone del Monaco cheese.
Marina del Cantone bay is protected from the wind by the mountains, the south facing beach is a warm haven from late March until late October.
From Marina del Cantone a short, 10 minute walk leads to Recommone bay. This gorgeous little bay, perfectly sheltered from the wind
How to get to Marina del Cantone
By car: from Sant'Agata sui Due Golfi take the road to Nerano. There are a number of car parks in the vicinity of the beach.
By public transport: the SITA coach company operates buses from Sorrento to Sant'Agata – Nerano.
Bay of Ieranto
At the tip of the Sorrento Peninsula near the village of Nerano, you can take the walking path to the Baia di Ieranto, a natural protected situated inside the marine park of Punta Campanella, which overlooks the island of Capri from its small beach (about an hour walk along the path).
The bay is a sacred place, where the beauty of nature evokes an almost reverential silence.
The name Ieranto derives from the Greek "Ieros", or "sacred": nearby, on Campanella point, there was once a sanctuary dedicated to the pagan goddess Athena and it is here that Homer set the Sirens attempt to seduce Ulysses.
Today, you can still sense the mystical spirit of the place, as you walk across the waves of rocks, greeted by a succession of spectacular visions of an incredibly blue sea.
How to get to Ieranto Bay
The path to the Bay of Ieranto commences in the tiny little fishing village of Nerano, a fraction of Massa Lubrense. The SITA coach company operates a regular bus service to Nerano, departing from Sorrento train station.
From the square in Nerano, start walking down the main street and, after just a few meters, to your right, you 'll come across the footpath (3 kilometers, medium difficulty).
The path proceeds over flat ground for about one kilometer, past the Villa Rosa, where the writer Norman Douglas once resided. From this point on, the olive trees are far and few between, making way for lush, Mediterranean scrub.
A downhill stretch between low dry stone walls, brings visitors to a spectacular vision of the sea; the island of Capri; Punta Campanella; the islets of Li Galli and the unmistakable shoreline of the Amalfi Coast.
On route, you'll come across the remains of a number of old kilns: from the early to late 20th century the bay was the property of the state-owned Italsider steel company which used to extract the '''limestone.
At a certain stage, the path divides into two: heading either uphill to Monte Alto and Punta Penna, or downhill to the small pebble beach of the Bay of Ieranto, where bathers can swim in the warm waters directly opposite the Faraglioni of Capri.
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Nerano
When you ask an Italian from Sorrento where they go to enjoy a day on the beach, chances are that they will answer, "Marina del Cantone, near Nerano!" This pretty bay on the south side of the peninsula has a large pebble beach, crystalline water, and a number of excellent restaurants serving the local specialty: "spaghetti alla Nerano", made with zucchini and provolone del Monaco cheese.
Marina del Cantone bay is protected from the wind by the mountains, the south facing beach is a warm haven from late March until late October.
From Marina del Cantone a short, 10 minute walk leads to Recommone bay. This gorgeous little bay, perfectly sheltered from the wind
How to get to Marina del Cantone
By car: from Sant'Agata sui Due Golfi take the road to Nerano. There are a number of car parks in the vicinity of the beach.
By public transport: the SITA coach company operates buses from Sorrento to Sant'Agata – Nerano.
Bay of Ieranto
At the tip of the Sorrento Peninsula near the village of Nerano, you can take the walking path to the Baia di Ieranto, a natural protected situated inside the marine park of Punta Campanella, which overlooks the island of Capri from its small beach (about an hour walk along the path).
The bay is a sacred place, where the beauty of nature evokes an almost reverential silence.
The name Ieranto derives from the Greek "Ieros", or "sacred": nearby, on Campanella point, there was once a sanctuary dedicated to the pagan goddess Athena and it is here that Homer set the Sirens attempt to seduce Ulysses.
Today, you can still sense the mystical spirit of the place, as you walk across the waves of rocks, greeted by a succession of spectacular visions of an incredibly blue sea.
How to get to Ieranto Bay
The path to the Bay of Ieranto commences in the tiny little fishing village of Nerano, a fraction of Massa Lubrense. The SITA coach company operates a regular bus service to Nerano, departing from Sorrento train station.
From the square in Nerano, start walking down the main street and, after just a few meters, to your right, you 'll come across the footpath (3 kilometers, medium difficulty).
The path proceeds over flat ground for about one kilometer, past the Villa Rosa, where the writer Norman Douglas once resided. From this point on, the olive trees are far and few between, making way for lush, Mediterranean scrub.
A downhill stretch between low dry stone walls, brings visitors to a spectacular vision of the sea; the island of Capri; Punta Campanella; the islets of Li Galli and the unmistakable shoreline of the Amalfi Coast.
On route, you'll come across the remains of a number of old kilns: from the early to late 20th century the bay was the property of the state-owned Italsider steel company which used to extract the '''limestone.
At a certain stage, the path divides into two: heading either uphill to Monte Alto and Punta Penna, or downhill to the small pebble beach of the Bay of Ieranto, where bathers can swim in the warm waters directly opposite the Faraglioni of Capri.