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Sorrento Peninsula · Amalfi Coast · Italy

Hiking trails and coastal
places, explained in English.

The complete, honest guide to walking Italy’s Sorrento peninsula — the Path of the Gods, Punta Campanella, the Baia di Ieranto — with the buses, the difficulty, the swim and the food, all in plain English.

Browse the trails Day-tripping from Sorrento?
40.581° N · 14.348° E Massa Lubrense · Punta Campanella Marine Reserve
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The three you came for

All trails & comparison table →
Hard
Path of the Gods
The cliff-top balcony walk from Agerola to Positano — the coast’s most famous trail.
7.8 km·3–4 h·1,700 steps
Moderate
Punta Campanella
The tip of the peninsula — an Angevin tower, a temple to Athena, Capri close enough to touch.
6 km·3 h·320 m
Easy
Baia di Ieranto
A gentle descent from Nerano to a FAI-protected cove of green water, facing Capri.
2.5 km·2 h·140 m
Based in Sorrento?

You don’t need a car to reach any of this.

Most travelers walk this coast as a day trip. We lay out every route from Sorrento — SITA buses, boats, timings and costs — so you can leave after breakfast and be back for dinner.

Day trips from Sorrento→ Getting around by bus & boat→ When to go & what to bring→
Coast

Where to swim

All beaches →
Sorrento Beaches
The full guide to swimming along the whole coast.
Pillar guide
Bagni della Regina Giovanna
Roman ruins and a natural sea pool below Sorrento.
Rock · free
Marina del Cantone
Nerano’s pebble beach and seafront lidos.
Pebble · lido
Baia di Ieranto
The protected green cove — on foot or by boat.
Rock · FAI
The reason many come

Spaghetti
alla Nerano.

Fried zucchini, a molten tangle of Provolone del Monaco, born in a Marina del Cantone trattoria in the 1930s. We give you the real recipe, the two restaurants that made it famous, and how to walk it off.

The recipe & the story →