Sorrento
Sorrento (Neapolitan: Surriento) is a smaa toun in Campanie, soothren Italy, wi some 16,500 indwallers. It is a popular tourist destination which can be reached easily frae Naples an Pompeii, as it lies at the sooth-eastren end o the Circumvesuviana rail line. The toun owerleuks the Bay o Naples as the key place o the Sorrentine Peninsula, an mony viewpynts allae sicht o Naples itself, Vesuvius an the Isle o Capri.
Sorrento | |
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| Comune di Sorrento | |
 Coat airms | |
  Sorrento Location o Sorrento in Italy | |
| Coordinates: 40°37′34″N 14°22′34″E / 40.62611°N 14.37611°E | |
| Kintra | Italy |
| Region | Campanie |
| Province | Naples (NA) |
| Frazioni | Casarlano, Cesarano, Marano, Priora, Santa Lucia, Sorrento Capo, Sorrento Marina Grande |
| Govrenment | |
| • Mayor | Giuseppe Cuomo (syne 2010) |
| Area | |
| • Total | 9 km2 (3 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 50 m (160 ft) |
| Population (31 August 2007) | |
| • Total | 16,547 |
| • Density | 1,800/km2 (4,800/sq mi) |
| Demonym(s) | Sorrentini |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Postal code | 80060 an 80067 |
| Diallin code | 081 |
| Patron saunt | St. Antoninus |
| Saunt day | Februar 14 |
| Website | Offeecial wabsteid |
Internaitional relations
eeditTwin touns – Sister ceeties
eeditSorrento is twinned wi:
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References
eedit- ↑ "Villes jumelées avec la Ville de Nice" (in French). © 2008-2010 Ville de Nice. Archived frae the original on 29 October 2012. Retrieved 24 Juin 2013.
- ↑ "Skiens vennskapsbyer". Skien kommune. Archived frae the original on 13 Apryle 2009. Retrieved 18 Januar 2009. (in Norse)
- ↑ Delgado, Gilbert L. "The Santa Fe Sister Cities Program". The Official Website of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Archived frae the original on 26 August 2013. Retrieved 24 Juin 2013.