Hotel Antiche Mura Sorrento

In a central yet peaceful position with access from the Piazza Tasso, heart of Sorrento, rises an elegant “art nouveau” building, Hotel Antiche Mura. The hotel combines sophisticated and elegant traditional decor with comfort and innovative technologies to satisfy the most demanding customer.

The Hotel Antiche Mura offers to its valued guests 52 beautiful rooms divide in double, triple, family and interconnecting rooms. At your disposal also 2 magnificent Suites with Jacuzzi and 3 luxury Junior Suites.

All the accommodations type are completely renovated and they combines sophisticated and elegant traditional decor with comfort and innovative technology to satisfy the most demanding costumer.

SUITE WITH JACUZZI
The delicate wall decorations, the hand-painted floors by Vietri master craftsmen, the Jacuzzi, the King size bed: a taste of the past with the comforts of the future for a dream Holiday! The Suite with Jacuzzi is made by two beautiful rooms divide by an heavy curtains. It has a beautiful Full balcony overlooking the luxuriant and romantic Valley of the Mills.

This is the biggest room that we have at the hotel Antiche Mura. The correct size is 54 square metres including the bathroom. The Suite can accommodate up to 5 guests and it is perfect not only for couple but also for family!

JUNIOR SUITE
Exclusive Beauty, relaxing sofa corner and beautiful view of both ancient valley of the mills and front side of the hotel. A deluxe Suite that will satisfy all your expectation!

With either full balcony/terrace, or 6 French balconies or 6 big windows, the Junior Suite will surprise you with its well studies spaces, elegance and its huge king Size bed (2 m long x 2 m large). This room is bigger than the Comfort Rooms. The correct is 38 square metres including the bathroom.

KING PREMIER ROOM POOL SIDE
This room, lately updated and sited by the pool area, features a French balcony that faces the historical alley. Moreover, it is equipped with a king size bed (or 2 single) with the chance to add an extra one. The bathroom is furnished with both a shower and a bath, hairdryer and courtesy line.

DELUXE ROOM
All of our Deluxe Double Rooms offers a very elegant and tasteful décor with detailed furniture, high ceilings and balconies overlooking the gorge of the Ancient Valley of the Mills or the city of Sorrento. The bathroom décor is in Italian marble.

Each bathroom is equipped with a bath and a shower, a hairdryer and a magnifying mirror. They also offer a complimentary set of bathroom amenities and slippers.

THE BREAKFAST BUFFET
Start your daily routine with our delightful American buffet breakfast, get attracted by the nice flavour of the variety of our baked cakes daily prepared by our experienced and high qualified pastry-Chef, combined with fresh fruit fragance and hot specialities, served in our elegant breakfast lounge or garden.

Do not hesitate to ask our helpful and professional staff the perfect “Italian Cappuccino“and/or request for our Chef to prepare for you fresh cooked eggs.

Get charmed by our elegant Breakfast room in liberty style with its hand painted tailes lighted by our classy chandelier with Murano glass decor and the exceptional outdoor area, with its flowered Jasmin scent, next to the ancient walls of the town.

BAR & SNACK
Our American Bar located in the lobby is a cozy area attentively furnished, open from 4 pm until midnight. Everyday our professional Barman is at your disposal with a wide selection of international cocktails and drinks.Here you may also choose one of the Happy Hour cocktails between our on sale cocktails of the day!

By our peaceful pool in high season, you will find our Snack-bar offering a lovely green ambience in our beautiful citrus grove Garden. Open from 9 am until 6 or 7 pm for drinks and lunch between 12pm and 4pm with our expert Chef.

Our lunch menù is reach in:Caprese Salads, Pizza, Pasta, sandwiches, chips, rolls. For a lighter meal, choose between our wide selection of salads or fresh season fruit.

COOKING CLASS 
Cooking classes are available every day, either for lunch or dinner from April to October. Lessons are in English by a professional Chef, prepared on all sort of traditional local typical dishes. Taking part of this tour is an unforgettable experience, taking you closer to our cuisine, and no less the Italian food culture so famous in the world.

It is not just a vacation experience you will bring with you, as all of the dishes prepared may easily be cooked again once back home. At the end of the lesson you will also have lunch or dinner with the delicious italian dishes you made together with the Chef.

THE TERRACES
Choose between our front terrace where you will get to appreciate the view of the main square “Piazza Tasso” or stay in our back terrace overlooking the ancient walls, the pool and the garden…They will offer your the perfect spot to relax after a busy day discovering Sorrento and its beautiful Surroundings!

THE GARDEN
The garden of the Hotel Antiche Mura are located by the pool side, including the area outside the breakfast room, where you will be charmed by the ancient walls of the Town dating back to the XVI century.

Our garden, mainly by the pool is full of beautiful colours, its flowers, plants and lemon & orange grove, are the perfect setting for a relaxing day with its lovely smell and perfect environment.

Here while reading a book or simply resting, you may cool off with one of our refreshing drinks. Our Citrus Groves still provides oranges and lemons provided used to offer you a more genuine breakfast.

POOL & SOLARIUM
A touch of blue in our greenery garden above the silence of the valley of the mills. Our swimming pool with hydro-massage area is located in our beautiful citrus grove garden overlooking the old walls of Sorrento and the “Ancient Valley of the Mills” dating back to the XVI century.

Relaxing by the pool is very easy, since you will also have the possibility of using our delightful hydro-massage corner. All around the pool surrounded by beautiful lemon and orange trees, you will find our Solarium equipped with sun beds, sun-chairs and umbrellas free of charge for all our guests to use.

MASSAGES
The Hotel Antiche Mura is pleased to offer a wide selection of massages and beauty treatment either in your room, or by the lovely pool or in the external SPA Center located only 800 m from the hotel. In your room: During all year you have the possibility to reserve a massage or a beauty treatment.

You can have several kinds of massages like deep massage or a relaxing massage, etc or may beauty treatment. By the pool & Garden: From May to October you have the possibility to reserve a massage or a beauty treatment in our beautiful garden in the open air.

EVENTS & CERIMONIES
Our Hotel Antiche Mura is a unique place located in the center of Sorrento and it is the ideal choice to celebrate your magical day, your wedding! Thanks to the large indoor and outdoor spaces and the conference room, the hotel is the perfect location for meetings, conferences and different types of events.

WEDDINGS IN SORRENTO
The unique venue for your wedding in Sorrento… The perfect wedding location for your magic day… Our Villa Antiche Mura. By the sea, with the stunning view of the bay of Naples and Mount Vesuvius, rises the Villa Antiche Mura, one of the most sought-out location in Sorrento for weddings, special events or celebrations.

The Management of the Hotel Antiche Mura also manage this second property called Villa Antiche Mura, located just at 15 minutes in walking distance from the main hotel. In Sorrento, but on the cliff, where warm breezes and breathtaking panorama create picture for perfect memories, this unique villa offers a captivating experience for a romantic wedding.

We will take care of all the details and together with your requests we will design your dream and exclusive location! So Each wedding or event can be different from the next and working together we can create the place of your dreams. Our Villa will be yours for the whole day: you will have it exclusively for you magic day.

Whether for an intimate wedding of a small group of family and friends, or a gala dinner for more than one hundred guests, or for a place to dance and play music until late, the Villa offers a number of romantic settings for yourSorrento wedding reception and special event.

Completely equipped for all celebrations, we will personalize everything you desire with care and attention to detail. Everything will be done with the experience and the well known professionalism of the Hotel Antiche Mura’s Management.

Your wedding can all happen at one of the most magical and beautiful villa in Sorrento, Italy. Our venue offers different areas where you can personalize your unique day:

• The elegant lobby of 130 square meters for parties from 20 to 100 guests overlooking the Bay of Naples;
• The two beautiful outside terraces of 400 square meters also overlooking the bay;
• The characteristic citrus grove garden typical of the Sorrento area;
• The direct access to the sea;
• Private garage;
• Room for the bride and the groom for the whole day.

POMPEI & VESUVIUS EXCURSION
Following the eruption of the volcano Mount Vesuvius in the year 79 A.D., Pompei lay buried and forgotten for hundreds of years. The town is high on the list of the Wonders of the World and the excavations begun in the 18th Century are still being carried out today.

Our guide will take you slowly through some of the ancient streets of Pompei where you can see Baths, Forums and Villas built by the prosperous Romans in the year 80 B.C. Marvel at the fabulously preserved Frescos which adorned the walls and floors of the Villas.

Even if your interests do not lie in history, this is an archaeological site that cannot fail to impress you. Mount Vesuvius dominates the Bay of Naples. It is the only active volcano on the mainland of Europe. The slopes were once covered with vineyards and woods and provided an innocent looking backdrop for the bustling town below.

The coach will take you to within 1.000 metres of the top of Vesuvius and from here you can walk to the very top and admire the splendid panoramic views across the bay (From the blackened crater rises a single plume of smoke, a reminder that the volcano is only sleeping for now…).

AMALFI DRIVE
The “Amalfi Drive” is said to be the most spectacular road in Europe and from Sorrento, the winding cliff top road offers breathtaking panoramic views at every bend.

Each spot is a world of its own, a fantastic world which dazzles the imagination and inspires unforgettable impressions. First stop at Amalfi, which gives its name to the whole coast on which it lies. Once a thriving Marine Republic, powerful and prosperous and now a thriving holiday resort.

The unmistakeable cluster of white tightly packed houses rising up the hillside is dominated by the beautiful Cathedral, which stands superbly on the top of a great flight of steps leading up from the main square. Housed in the magnificent Cathedral are the remains of the Patron Saint of Amalfi and also Scotland – Saint Andrew.

From Amalfi we visit Ravello, which nestles eleven hundred feet above the sea in the hillside. We visit the Villa Rufolo which gave the musician Richard Wagner the inspiration to create one of his most famous operas, Parsifal.

CAPRI & ANACAPRI EXCURSION 
Sail across the bay of Naples for the start of an unforgettable day. For so small an island, about 4 miles long and 2 miles wide. Capri has had much said, sung and written about it. First you will visit the fabulous villa of Dr. Axel Munthe, a Swedish doctor whose best selling book “ Story of San Michele” tells of his time on Capri.

His villa was built with the remains of Roman ruins; there is a beautiful shady garden with terrace offering splendid views of the island. This is optional and the entrance fee should be paid direct to the guide.

You then go down to Capri town which is very chic with shops, hotels and restaurants along winding streets. The main square Piazza Umberto I has a pretty white church and several open-air cafes where you can sit and watch the world drift by.

Leading off the square are medieval looking alleyways and arcades full of shops selling the handicrafts of island, clothing; jewellery made from coral and gold, shoes and ceramics. Admire the colourful gardens of Augustus overlooking the famed Faraglioni Rocks and Marina Piccola where Gracie Fields once lived.

There is free time for you to go off and admire the elegant boutiques, stroll along the cobbled streets or simply relax on the beach. There is so much to see and do on this tiny island paradise you will be sorry to leave.

ISLE OF ISCHIA EXCURSION
Ischia with its magnificent flora, is known as the Green Island. This volcanic island is dominated by Mount Epomeo. Our tour starts at Sorrento port with a 50 minutes jetfoil crossing of the Bay of Naples to Ischia.

On arrival, there is a tour of the island, with a stop at the Belvedere to admire the magnificent view over the Citara Bay(possibility also of tasting local produce). Continuation of the tour to S. Angelo about 12.30 p.m. and free time with possibility of remaining on the baeach.

Clients can choose between going to the thermal centre, which has a restaurant, sauna and various warm swimming pools, or going to the famous garden, the Mortella, situated in the San Francesco district, run by Susanna Walton, the widow of the English composer, William Waltons who came to live on Ischia in 1949.

There are more than 3000 types of plants in the garden, and there are also fountains and pools with aquatic plants. There is a guided visit. Departure from S. Angelo for Ischia port is at 16.00, where as departure the Gardens is at 16.40.

SALERNO & PAESTUM EXCURSION
In medieval times Salerno was the world capital of medicine, the Monastery of the Benedictine monks who probably founded its medical school, offered the best education then available.

One of the most famous medical texts of that time was the “Regimen Sanistas Salerni” written here in Latin and translated into almost every European language. In more modern times Salerno is best remembered for the Allied troops landing on its beaches, during the second world war.

To the east of Salerno, after the headlands of Pontecagnano, Battipaglia and Eboli, is Paestum, which is one of the most important archaeological sites in the country. Here you will see some of the best preserved Greek ruins, architecture and monuments, such as the Temple of Poseidon (Neptune) the Basilica dating from the 6th Century.

In the museum you can admire the Tomb of the Dive a magnificent example of Greek painting, representing a funeral banquet. The did of the tomb depicts a young man diving into the water.

HERCULANEUM EXCURSION
Our journey takes us along the coast road through Castellammare di Stabia and out along the motorway to Herculaneum. Herculaneum was destroyed along with Pompei in 79 A.D., and was rediscovered in 1709. It was a residential town without Pompeii’s commercial importance, surrounded by the villas of wealthy Romans.

When the catastrophe of 79 A.D. occurred Herculaneum was submerged under a torrent of mud and lava that hardened into a soft tufa (a kind of course rock) that preserved many of the wooden parts of houses and household objects which can be seen today.

A large portion of old Herculaneum is still buried under the modern town and even today excavations are going on to discover what treasures lie buried under the rock.

CAPRI PRIVATE TOUR 
Transfer from Antiche Mura by car to the fishing port of Massa Lubrense. On board our comfortable wood boat (Gozzo Sorrentino) you will experience an unforgettable trip discovering Capri. Sailing around the island we give the opportunity to see the Blue Grotto (optional).

We do provide beach towels and masks to swim in some of the most beautiful beaches of Capri. Before to dropp you off (if you wish) for approx 4 hours at the port of Marina Piccola, our skipper serves light snacks and soft drinks free of charge. In the afternoon we leave to continue the tour around the island and we return to Antiche Mura by 6.00/6.30.

HIKING & TREKKING
You will have the fantastic occasion to experience the best Hiking and Trekking Guided Tours of the Peninsula. Please find the list below:

IERANTO: “THE BAY OF SIRENS”
According to a Neapolitan writer “Ieranto comes last. In Ieranto the world ends” just to attend a literary suggestion, here conceived in “Tempo di cicale”. By the way, it is said that many voices together, human and animal, make a place in the heart: The Bay looks like from the ridge of Mount St. Costanzo, a privileged point on that stretch of the polychrome sea.

And then the songs of the mythical winged creatures, they wanted to seduce Greek heroes and Latin poets and even seduces here, among Ieranto and the Lubrense Ateneo.

In the middle of a coastal village, vaguely of Amalfi, a cup of water, raised on Capri, is the path of Ieranto. It moves from the picturesque groups of houses of Nerano to join , step by step, with rumours of a mythical and literary landscape , alive and popular.

A vast horizon, therefore, binds in one the islets of the Sirens (today Li Galli) and the crested rock (then Tre Pizzi): rock icons and bird sanctuaries, now as in the days of Ulysses.

PUNTA CAMPANELLA: A TERRACE ON CAPRI
An ultra-millenary pavement, a rocky ridge, a devotional stairway: here the obliged sides to tie the vertices of this must hiking triangle. Go from tops to tops, from the promontory of the Campanella to the Mount San Costanzo, can evoke mythical foundations and ancient pilgrimages, or perform again, as the crops of the men and the natural vegetation return, a landscape of days gone by Benedictine vineyards, olive trees of Minerva and Jupiter’s beards.

THE PATH OF THE GODS: FLYING OVER THE AMALFI COAST
Among the “high” routes of the Amalfi coast, this hike moves from Agerola to Positano and is by far the most famous hike you can do. The reason for this fame (which is recognized all over the world) is the constant ups and downs, the fantastic sheer vertical drops and lands cultivated in terraces.

You arrive at the final destination and the highlight of this hike, Punta Campanella ,which is apparently united to the stunning island of Capri. From here viewpoint to the west we see siren archipelagos and swirling shapes. There is much to explain here regarding the colours of the Mediterranean lands, known as our “Path of the Gods”.

FAITO: THE MOUNTAINS ON THE SEA
In the woods of Faito, so called because of the extensive beech woods, all possible paths pass on the giant mountains, Lattari, a record that shares not only in the alpine, but in the different and natural environments.

It is the ” mountain on the sea”, or rather the gulfs (Naples and Salerno): a real treasure of biodiversity protected by the Lattari Mountains Regional Park. Beyond the forest cover there is the priceless descent to S. Maria del Castello, a hamlet between the worldly Positano and the industrious Vico Equense.

Info: Departure and return to Castellammare, or to other towns of the Sorrentine Peninsula served by the Circumvesuviana line, for the discovery of the biggest massif of the Lattari Mountains. For the longest trek, return to Vico Equense from S. M. del Castello by public transport (EAVBUS).

CAPO DI SORRENTO: A BELVEDERE LONG 2000 YEARS
The archaeological evidences of a glorious time, the most ancient times, greet welcome and accompany hikers from the heart of Sorrento to Capo. Mounting and descending the fruitful hills, so bitter-sweet, between Priora and Massa Lubrense , comes the discovery of the humble farmer’s gesture and the elegant coast monument.

Finally, beyond the walled gardens, among the gorse stumps, there is the natural “set” inaugurated by an anonymous Roman landowner, heading to the Queen Giovanna, and then consecrated by Sophia Loren and Vittorio De Sica in “Pane, Amore e …”.

Rooms: 52

Price: from 130 EUR per night

Source: www.hotelantichemura.com