Ideal destination at any time of the year, Sorrento is a town to visit especially to coincide with religious and traditional dates and festivities. A holiday in Sorrento, even in a winter time, will be a pleasant and merited surprise.
Particular and suggestive is the date with Christmas, a magical moment which gives the town a particular and intense charm: the numerous beauties one can visit during the year are enveloped in a vigorous and warm atmosphere linked to secular traditions still alive today.

Religious festivities, and in particular Christmas, are much felt in Sorrento, the calendar of rites and celebrations of the month of December is in fact very rich in religious and traditional celebrations, such as the ritual bonfire of Santa Lucia or the pipers’ march.
Not to be missed for believers is the Midnight Mass in the Cathedral, followed by the procession of the “Bambiniello” (Infant Jesus) along the roads of Sorrento, accompanied by the hymn of St. Alfonso and by cheerful fireworks
It will be difficult not to be involved by the Sorrento Christmas atmosphere, immersed in a sparkling of lights, in a enveloping warmth, adorned with multicoloured decorations and precious cribs. Cribs which attract the attention of tourists and visitors, and worthy of the proverbial Neapolitan crib art, and enriched, in some cases, by the presence of time babies and shepherds, in most cases going back to the 18th century. Not less interesting are the living crib representations, very frequent all over the Sorrento Coast.
To enrich the offer of religious ceremonies there is also a wide calendar of profane events. Among these ones there are festivals, concerts, reviews, shows and theatrical performances distributed among Sorrento, the Sorrento Coast and the Amalfi Coast.

And how to forget the typical Christmas cooking? On the occasion of Christmas in Sorrento you will be able to taste the delicious dishes of the Neapolitan tradition  which, besides their unusual goodness, are able to communicate that familiar warmth, to arouse those atavistic sensations placated inside each of us.
Dishes based on mussels, clams, crustaceans, tasty cakes such as sponge-cakes, “rococo”, “mustaccioli”, “susamielli” and “panettone”, and any kind of delicacies delight palates of tourists visiting Sorrento.
Not to be missed is also the show offered by shops of the old town centre of Sorrento: shown in an inviting way, goods seem to wink at passers-by from shop-windows.
So, even on Christmas days, Sorrento is a wonderful show. A show not to miss, to live completely immersed in the Sorrento magic.