Vico Equense is geographically the first town of the Sorrentine peninsula. Vico Equense offers a beautiful old town centre overlooking the sea, beautiful beaches and above all excellent restaurants, pizzerias and ice-cream parlours! It is less than ten minutes by train from Sorrento and is almost unknown to non-Italian tourists.
Around the centre, going up the slopes of Monte Faito, there are 13 country houses where the locals often stop for a good pizza or a hearty lunch in a farmhouse. Here the Pizza a Metro is famous.
The most famous postcard of Vico Equense is the pink façade of the former Cathedral of Santa Maria Annunziata, built on a rocky spur overlooking the sea. It is one of the rare examples of Gothic architecture in the Sorrento peninsula, even if its façade is baroque. In the little church behind (the church of the archconfraternity) you can admire a beautiful wooden altar of 1700 decorated with millions of beads, corals and glass paste by the cloistered nuns of the nearby convent of the Santissima Tritinità. A few steps from the cathedral is the Giusso Castle, built by Charles II of Anjou between 1284 and 1289.
