A long bay of pebbles and clear water, cut off from Ieranto by the Tre Pizzi headland, whose peaks dive straight into the sea. One of the best places on the peninsula to snorkel.
Yachts offshore, restaurants on stilts along the shore — it holds together things that usually don’t. Blue Flag water, a free beach alternating with the lidos, and a small chapel to Sant’Antonio da Padova, the patron, from 1646 — his feast on 13 June brings a procession on the sand and the traditional gozzi race. What you plan around is the parking and the four o’clock shade.
Two things other guides state as settled — and both move with the season. Here we keep them open instead of choosing for you.
There’s no single figure — it moves with the lot and the season. The Comune’s blue-line spaces run about €3/hour in season (€1/hour off-season); private lots charge a flat rate of roughly €20 for the day; the cheaper shuttle lots higher up sit around €2/hour. The old “10 to 25 euros” you’ll see quoted is really this spread, seen from different lots on different days.
The line here is the SITA 5070, and its timetable shifts between school term, public holidays and high season — and in summer the buses fill up. Check the outward run and, above all, the last return before you go: don’t stake the day on the final departure.
In August and on weekends, arrive by nine, or arrive by bus or by boat. The published tariffs don’t line up: verify them on the ground, they change with the season.
There’s a large lot at the end of the road, the piazza, blue-line spaces along the street, and lots higher up that run a shuttle in summer. In August and on weekends, arrive by nine. Enforcement of no-parking zones is serious, and the road down from Nerano doesn’t forgive improvisation.
The way to solve the parking problem at the root: take the SITA bus (line 5070) from Sorrento or from Sant’Agata sui Due Golfi, and skip the descent by car entirely. Check the last return run — the timetable shifts with the season and the buses fill up.
In summer there are boat connections from Sorrento, Positano and Capri, plus taxi boats from Marina di Massa Lubrense. Out on the water, the yachts; on the shore, the restaurants on stilts.
When the lot at the bottom is full — in August, by nine — the answer isn’t to walk down the road on foot. It’s to arrive earlier, or come by bus or by boat. Bring coins: the piazza machine takes them, and the bay’s single ATM is the only backup.
The big square, where the Hotel Punta Campanella — the only hotel on the piazza — looks out. Few spaces. You pay with the EasyPark app or with coins at the machine.
A little further along. From here a second descent runs straight down to the sea: the shortcut almost no one points out.
The comfortable answer when the lots at the bottom are full: a private lot called the Venione, about 900 m from Marina del Cantone, that runs a shuttle down to the beach — so you park easily and let it carry you the rest of the way. Other lots are staggered higher up the road with hours that differ from one to the next; don’t walk down from those on foot — the road is narrow, steep, without a pavement, shared with cars and scooters.
Whatever you need, you either bring it or find it here — and here there’s little. That little, though, is worth knowing before you come down.
A single cash machine in the whole bay. It may be the most useful line on this page: several places down here work better in cash, and the village above has no alternative.
Where you buy the SITA bus tickets — they aren’t sold on board. If you arrive by bus and mean to leave by bus, this is where you get the ticket.
The shop, for whatever you forgot. And that’s it: no pharmacy, no supermarket, no tourist office.
From late March the bay catches the sun: its south-facing exposure and the shelter of the mountains make it swimmable earlier than the others. Not August, if you can help it — and not August weekends, under any circumstances.
In April and May the water is still cold and there’s no one around. That’s the stretch when you see the bay for what it is.
No. Pebbles and gravel. Bring reef shoes if your feet are sensitive.
It depends on the lot and the season. The Comune’s blue-line spaces are about €3/hour in season (€1/hour off-season); private lots charge a flat rate of roughly €20 a day; the shuttle lots higher up run around €2/hour. There’s no single fixed price — check the sign at the lot you actually use.
Around four in the afternoon. The bay faces south.
Yes, alternating with the lidos. In August it fills up early. And if you book lunch at Lo Scoglio, they set out deck chairs and sunbeds on the pebbles while you wait.
One, and it’s worth using: several places prefer cash, and there’s no alternative in the village above.
At the tabacchi in the bay. They aren’t sold on board the SITA bus.
In the piazza, with the EasyPark app or with coins at the machine. The spaces there are few.
The SITA bus (line 5070) from Sorrento or from Sant’Agata sui Due Golfi — check the last return run. In summer also by sea, from Sorrento, Positano and Capri.
The route down to the beach is designed to be usable by people with reduced mobility too. The surface itself is pebbles and gravel.
On 13 June, the feast of Sant’Antonio da Padova, the patron — with a procession on the sand and the traditional gozzi (rowboat) race, and pedalò and canoe races in the afternoon.
Yes, and it’s one of the best spots on the peninsula. Rocky bottom, clear water, fish close to shore.
On foot, on a path that starts from Nerano. Or by the sea taxis of the Sant’Antonio cooperative.
From late March to late October, thanks to the south-facing exposure.
Tariffs, shuttles and lido operators change every season — the parking price isn’t one fixed number but a range that moves between the Comune’s blue-line spaces, the private lots and the shuttle lots. The gozzi-race date still differs between sources, so we keep it open rather than picking one. Before you set out, verify at the source.