Between Corso Italia and Via San Cesareo there are some of the most representative buildings in the history of Sorrento. The Cathedral, seat for the Archbishop of Sorrento, was restructured several times but it saved an interesting Aragonese portal of the 15th century. 

Not far from Piazza Sant'Antonino, there are the Church and the Convent of San Francesco, with the characteristic cloister nowadays used as scenery for concerts of classical music during the summer season. The cloister, with a rectangular plan, has columns and their capitals carved in tufa rocks and which form slender double lancet arches in Gothic Moresque.

Many other churches and convents, villas and palaces are in the centre of Sorrento, but unfortunately they are not all visitable. Among them we remember: the home of the poet Torquato Tasso and the one by his sister Cornelia; the palaces Veniero, Correale and Galantario; the churches of San Paolo, Ss. Annunziata, Madonna del Carmine, Maria's Servants, of the Addolorata. Finally we have to mention the museum Correale di Terranova, where are shown the highest examples of arts and crafts in Sorrento: inlaid wood work, embroidery, silks, furnishings