  sorrento (neapolitan: surriento) is a town and comune in campania, southern italy, with some 16,500 inhabitants. it is a popular tourist destination which can be reached easily from naples and pompeii, as it lies at the south-eastern end of the circumvesuviana rail line. the town overlooks the bay of naples as the key place of the sorrentine peninsula, and many viewpoints allow sight of naples itself, vesuvius, and the isle of capri. the amalfi drive (connecting sorrento and amalfi) is a narrow road that threads along the high cliffs above the tyrrhenian sea. ferry boats and hydrofoils provide services to naples, amalfi, positano, capri and ischia. sorrento's sea cliffs and luxury hotels have attracted notable people, including enrico caruso and luciano pavarotti. sorrento is famous for the production of limoncello, a digestif made from lemon rinds, alcohol, water and sugar. other agricultural production includes citrus fruit, wine, nuts and olives. wood craftsmanship is also developed. ==history== ===roman origins=== the roman name for sorrento was surrentum. legends indicate a close connection between lipara and surrentum, as though the latter had been a colony of the former; and even through the imperial period surrentum remained largely greek. the oldest ruins are oscan, dating from about 600 bc. before its control by the roman republic, surrentum was one of the towns subject to nuceria, and shared its fortun
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