You can reach this place trough a road that goes downhill, with large steps.

This road has origin from the end of the street “Sopra le Mura”.

After few steps you reach to the gate of Marina Grande which preserves, despite the successive restorations, the typical Greek structure and it’s dated around the IV century B.C.

From this gate entered the Turkish pirates, sacked Sorrento in 1558.

Going beyond this gate you are behind a typical fishing village, represented by a fusion between the Moorish architecture and the real local style.

From this combination arise architectonic forms, bizarre and picturesque like the houses, built in the tuff cliff and that are still inhabited.

Here arises also St. Anne’s church, the patron saint of the village, was built at the end of the seventeenth century and later extended.

On this beach, in a shipyard under the open sky were built the famous “Sorrento fishing boats”, a typical wood boat with a sail, these boats were long from 6 to 12 meters, easy to handle and reliable, unsinkable.

The mastery skill of Sorrento artisans was so great that the fishing boats were used by the fishermen of the Gulf of Naples and of the islands.

Heirs of this tradition are the fishing motor boat that are built still today in Sorrento and its surroundings.