Moving a little further afield, taking the stunning Amalfi drive, a must see spot is Sorrento, the pretty town overlooking the Bay of Naples, Vesuvius and the Isle of Capri. Sorrento dates back to 600 BC, yet its popularity is partly thanks to its most famous produce, lemons and limoncello, and its role as muse for some of the most well known songs about Italy. It was quite famously featured in the early-20th-century song “Torna a Surriento” (Come Back to Sorrento) with lyrics by Giambattista De Curtis, brother of the song’s composer, Ernesto De Curtis, but perhaps the most famous masterpiece which has spread the fame of Sorrento in the world, is “Caruso”, a song composed in Sorrento, in the summer of 1985, by the Bolognese singer-songwriter Lucio Dalla, which has been covered by many artists including Pavarotti and Bocelli.
