Sorrento welcomes you with genuine and friendly hospitality right from the liberty style cornice of Hotel Villa Margherita di Sant’Agnello, a gorgeous residence only 50 meters form the sea and 10 minutes from the historic center. A garden, a panoramic terrace solarium and comfortable rooms make it a wonderful place to take a vacation right in the heart of the Sorrento Peninsula..
Hotel Villa Margherita is located on the quiet Corso Crawford of Sant’Agnello, at 10 minutes from the historic center of Sorrento, among liberty style villas that once were the residence of poets and artists that chose Sorrento for its mild climate and the friendly attitude of its people. Indeed, the Corso takes its name from American writer Marion Crawford, who established himself in Sant’Agnello in 1885, in the Villa overhanging the sea and bearing the same name, the hub of cultural and mundane life at that time, today the site of an important religious institute. Many other literati and poets stayed at Sorrento which was the Mecca of the Romantic Grand Tour, among them Goethe, Stendhal and Byron.
The great poet Torquato Tasso, was born here on 1544 and one can still see in the historic center the house of his beloved sister Cornelia.
A rich cultural atmosphere still prevails in Sorrento and Sant’Agnello and summer evenings are teaming with literature meets and concerts of classical music and jazz of the highest level performed in the beautiful setting offered by the cloister of San Francesco.
Days are spent at sea, on small but very well appointed beach concessions (not to be confused with the Bagni delle Regina Giovanna, a very important archaeological site constituted by the ruins of a huge Roman villa, the summer residence of an important Roman family) or else spent discovering the Sorrento Peninsula.
The privileged location commanded by villa Margherita makes it ideal to take advantage of several different excursions during the day, either by sea or by land, to the beautiful localities nearby. The Metrò del Mare is a very comfortable line service and so are the aliscafo (hydrofoil) and traghetto services which take off from Sorrento for the most famous spots along the coast, like Positano and Amalfi, Ischia and Capri, Napoli and all the way to Sapri. On land and by car, one can easily access Naples which is 50 km away, the excavations at Ercolano and Pompei at 25 km distance, or Amalfi and the Amalfi Coast at 30 km, all of them enchanting and uniquely fascinating places. Or one can just as easily take the train of the Circumvesuviana line that stops at Sant’Agnello, Vico Equense, Castellamare, Pompei, Ercolano and Naples.
