Events in Sorrento
Leonardo Superstar in Sorrento
26/06/2010
From June 26 to October 24, 2010 at Villa Fiorentino
Sorrento will have the proud honour of being the first town to display the so-called "Lucanian self-portrait" recently attributed to the genius, Leonardo Da Vinci.
There will also be on show works by other great artists such as Donatello and Tintoretto.
The precious works of art will be on display in the incomparable and lovely setting of Villa Fiorentino, Corso Italia, Sorrento.
Good Friday Procession
02/04/2010
The most eagerly awaited event crowning celebrations of Holy Week are the Good Friday Processions,
the White procession in the morning and the Black one in the evening.
The names of the processions derive from the colors worn by the participants, white represents hope of St. Mary searching for her son Jesus,
broken by the black sorrow over the body of her Crucified son.
The origins of the celebrations go back to the Middle Ages, when at the end of 13th century Sorrento witnessed local people in sackcloth and bearing lighted torches, who
visited the tombs in various churches singing penitential psalms on the evening of Holy Thursday.
In the 16th century the Arch-Confraternity of Death moved the procession to Good Friday. The statue of Dead Christ was accompanied by a large wooden cross, and in further years the symbols of Sufferings, such as the lance, the sponge, the Nails and the Crown of Thorns.
The statue of Our Lady of Sorrows has been added in 18th century by the monks from St.Francis of Asissi. In 1806 the King of Naples expulted the friars from the monastery,
and the Arch-Confraternity connected with St.Francis where replaced by the new persons who sustained the tradition. Later on the procession evolved into two separate ones, but connected in spiritual way.
JAPAN FESTIVAL
27/03/2010
March 27 - 28, 2010
Villa Fiorentino - Armida Theatre - Piazza Tasso
