Sorrento dresses in festive mood

Every year, during the Christmas period, Sorrento dresses in festive mood to offer its citizens, and the many tourists that choose it for their vacation, an exceptionally beautiful setting and an atmosphere soaked with an impalpable magic that only tradition can provide. The streets and squares are illuminated with lights and decorations, and Christmas songs diffused in the air as background music for pleasant walks along Corso Italia, the main street. Those who care for old traditions linked to the “presepio”, can admire in the many churches of the Peninsula, these representations of the Nativity: real works of art, with models dating back to the 1600s learnedly decorated and dressed in completely handmade traditional costume, landscapes reconstructed with careful attention to detail by the expert hands of artists of this centuries old tradition, their patience and love for this ancient art plainly visible. For art lovers, Villa Fiorentino, as also the Cloister of San Francesco, are not to be missed. These old, majestic residences are, in fact, the hosts of art exhibition to be visited to discover works of extraordinary beauty: paintings, miniature presepi, objects d’art of popular Sorrentine tradition. For those who appreciate religious music, the additional Christmas concert is a must, celebrated every year in Sorrento Cathedral. Plus many other concerts organized by individual church choirs during the festive period. Repeated each year between the 25th and 30th of December, the traditional event “Tavolata e Tombolata” in Via San Cesareo; a much loved tradition and joyous occasion, a gathering not only for those who call Sorrento home, but also for the many tourists visiting our Peninsula for their Christmas vacation. For the occasion, in fact, via San Cesareo is subjected to an astonishing metamorphosis, festively prepared with lights and decorations, the venue for a very long foodfare table where hosts of locals and tourists from all over the world take a seat, attracted by an irresistible and contagious desire to enjoy themselves and sample the gastronomic delights of Sorrentine cuisine.

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