Transfer to/from Sorrento - Positano

The foundation is traditionally and legendarily attributed to the Greeks, but Sorrento had as first inhabitants settled the Italian people, the Etruscans and then, from 420 BC, there was important the influence of Osci. In Roman times is remembered for having taken part in the Italic 90 BC; There was then a colony derived from Silla, followed later an appropriation of veterans of Octavian. Hall was then the tribe Menenia. It was a bishopric from at least 420. During the crisis of Byzantine rule in Italy, Sorrento gained autonomy as dukedom, first under the rule of the dukes of Naples, then with archons and their dukes, always fighting with Amalfi, Salerno and the Saracens. The history of Sorrento is indistinguishable from that of other cities of Campania, took part in the anti Muslim alloys fought the Lombards of Benevento, experienced family struggles between the local nobles. Obligated in sec. IX by Guaimario to accept as their duke's brother, Guido, the Duchy of Sorrento resumed its autonomy after the latter's death and then lose it for good in 1137, absorbed in the new kingdom of the Normans. Sorrento has since followed the fate of the kingdom, not without conflicts and rebellions, especially early age Aragonese. In 1558 it was taken and sacked by the Turks in the winter of 1648 the city valiantly sustained the siege of John Grillo, of the Duke of Guise.

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