Tourist information - Sorrento
The Duomo, at the top of a steep flight of steps, dominates the town's main piazza.
It is furnished, virtually gaudy facade topped by a glazed tiled cupola that's usual for the region. Inside, it's a mixture of Saracen and Romanesque styles, though now greatly renewed, having a major relic in the body of St Andrew buried in its crypt. The most appealing area of the building is the cloister oddly Arabic in feel, which consists of whitewashed arches and palms.
It was constructed in the eleventh century, rebuilt in the Arab-Norman style in the twelfth and further modified in the eighteenth. The bell tower was built in between the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The thirteenth century Paradise cloisters, encompassed by a beautiful portico with pointed, interwoven arches and supporting columns, was constructed by Archbishop Filippo Augustariccio as a sepulchre for illustrious people of the town. You may as well look at the arsenal of the Republic which is a grandiose Gothic construction, the Cappuccini Hotel which was a thirteenth century convent with cloisters and a loggia, the Civic Museum containing the Tabula Amalphitana which is the oldest navigational manual around the world, as well as the map museum.
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