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The origins of Sorrento go back to the VII century a.C..
Sorrento was founded by the Fenici and then was under the dominion of the Sanniti in IV the century a.C., then become a roman colony in III the century, in order to become town hall in the I century a.C..
The name of Sorrento (Syrentum, Sorrentum) was be in the written ones of Ovid, Stradone, Seneca, Ennio, Galen, Orazio, Martial, Plinio and Stazio.
This town had the roman citizenship like prize in order not to have participated to the social war.
In roman age Sorrento, become Town hall was chosen like stay from emperors and aristocratic families.
The Roman, vincitori of the Greeks, replaced to the more active cult of sirene the that and concrete one than Minerva, to which they erected a tempio huge and they constructed a road, the evocative one via Parsano, that it lead to the tempio of the Goddess.
While the necks popolavano of skillful peasants and ammantavano of green, with the typical cultivations, spiagge and navy accommodated always a greater then divennero number of fishermen who valorosi sailors and contributed to the affirmation of Sorrento on the sea.
Noble the Roman did not escape to the fascination of the place and they constructed borgate villas to you and.
The Pollio villa, of which the ruderi are still visible, than extended from Head of Sorrento to the sea still is remembered like of Puolo.
Sorrento then become an evocative callback of the Christianity.
On the cape of S. Renato the first cathedral sorrentina was constructed.
There are noumerous the famous personages who knew this town in its long history:
George Gordon Byron (1818)
Percy B. Shelly (1819)
Walter Scott (1831)
Charles Dickens (1845)
Teodoro Mommsen (1852)
Paul Heise (1853-1877)
Harriet Becker Stowe (1866)
Federico Nietzsche (1876)
Edward Grieg (1872-1881)
Marrion Crawford (1895-1909)
Leone Tolstoi (1898)
To Torquato Rate the main public square of the citizen is dedicated.
The months that the Rate passed in 1577 to Sorrento were lieti and more calm of its life.
Torquato Rate always gasped to return to 14 Sorrento and November 1587 wrote to the Cornelia sister: “…Acciocch’io possa venire, non dirò a godere, ma respirare in cotesto cielo, sotto il quale sono nato: a rallegrarmi con la vista del mare e dei giardini; a consolarmi con la vostra amorevolezza; a bere di cotesti vini o di coteste acque, che forse potranno diminuire la mia infermità…”.
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