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sorrento
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 286
Land area (2000): 1.294079 sq. miles (3.351649 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.015863 sq. miles (0.041084 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.309942 sq. miles (3.392733 sq. km)
FIPS code: 66975
Located within: Florida (FL), FIPS 12
Location: 28.807872 N, 81.563571 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 32776
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Sorrento
Housing Units (2000): 494
Land area (2000): 3.125795 sq. miles (8.095772 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 3.125795 sq. miles (8.095772 sq. km)
FIPS code: 71225
Located within: Louisiana (LA), FIPS 22
Location: 30.180229 N, 90.866138 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 70778
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Sorrento
Wikipedia
Sorrento (; Neapolitan: Surriento ) is a town overlooking the Bay of Naples in Southern Italy. A popular tourist destination, it can be reached easily from Naples and Pompeii as it is at the south-eastern end of the Circumvesuviana rail line. The Sorrentine Peninsula has views of Naples, Vesuvius and the Isle of Capri. The Amalfi Drive, connecting Sorrento and Amalfi, is a narrow road that threads along the high cliffs above the Tyrrhenian Sea.
Ferries and hydrofoils connect the town to Naples, Amalfi, Positano, Capri and Ischia. Sorrento's sea cliffs and luxury hotels have attracted celebrities including Enrico Caruso and Luciano Pavarotti.
Limoncello is a digestif made from lemon rinds, alcohol, water and sugar which is produced in Sorrento. Other agricultural production includes citrus fruit, wine, nuts and olives.
Sorrento is the name of many cities and towns:
- Sorrento, Italy
- Sorrento, Florida, United States
- Sorrento, Louisiana, United States
- Sorrento, Maine, United States
- Sorrento, Victoria, a township on the Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, Australia
- Sorrento, Western Australia, suburb of Perth, Western Australia
- Sorrento, Hong Kong, the largest residential development on Kowloon MTR Station
- Sorrento, British Columbia, Canada
Other uses:
- Sorrento Calcio, Italian football club
- The Galbani brand of cheese and the Lactalis American Group, formerly Sorrento and Sorrento Lactalis
- Sorrentine Peninsula, a geographic feature in Italy, named for the city of Sorrento
- Duchy of Sorrento, a principality of the Early Middle Ages centred on Sorrento, Italy
- Siren Sorento, a character from the anime/manga series Saint Seiya
- Sorrento Stakes, a thoroughbred horse race in Del Mar, California, USA
- Kia Sorento, a Korean car
- Paul Sorrento, American baseball player
-
, a number of ships with this name
Usage examples of "sorrento".
He remained at Sorrento till he was nine, and then he was boarded with a worthy man, who superintended his education and taught him music.
We should have a carriage to Sorrento, and to-morrow a donkey for the baggage.
But the surpassing glory was the prospect at the Cape of Sorrento when they reached it on their walk back.
Castellamare--from Sorrento the indescribable--from Amalfi the unimaginable--from Salerno!
Temple, she gazed long towards the Sorrento promontory, the height of St.
Unlike the Sorrento side of the promontory, the mountains here rise suddenly and boldly out of the sea, towering to craggy eminences, moulded and cleft into infinite variety of slope and precipice, bastion and gorge.
The boat made first of all for Sorrento, where a few more persons came on board.
Should I hie myself up to the Sorrento, call from the lobby, invite them down for a drink in the bar?
Agata, on the heights above Sorrento, and on the other side of the bay.
The yawl was in the act of whirling round the rocks which form the deep cove on which the Marina Grande of Sorrento lies.
Marina Grande of Sorrento being one of the places of rendezvous mentioned by our hero, in his last instructions.
The piano or plain of Sorrento terminates, on the side of the bay, in perpendicular cliffs of tufa, that vary from one to near two hundred feet in height.
This carried the lugger athwart the cove of Sorrento, rather than into it, and, of course, left Yelverton, who had landed at the smaller marina, quite out of the line of her course.
An active man might go from the Marinella, at the foot of the Scaricatojo, or the place where the crew of the felucca had landed, to the Marina Grande of Sorrento in an hour.
The booze caught up with Margo, and she rambled on about their trips to Sorrento, the citrus-scented air.