Sant'Agnello

The quiet comune between Meta and Sorrento, with clifftop villas and sea views

Sant'Agnello is the small comune between Meta di Sorrento and Sorrento proper, running along the clifftop above the Gulf of Naples. It has none of Sorrento's tourist apparatus — no ticket booths, no cruise crowds — and the clifftop walk through its residential streets gives some of the best views on the peninsula, looking back toward Meta and the bay.

The village centre is genuinely quiet: a piazza, a church, some local bars, and the kind of unhurried atmosphere that Sorrento lost some decades ago. Several of the peninsula's better-value guesthouses and agriturismos are in Sant'Agnello rather than Sorrento itself. Worth a detour on the walk between Meta and Sorrento.

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