General information:
Piano rises on the coast of the Sorrento peninsula, its territory it is a fertile expanse of citrus plantation and vineyards, that finish on the sea in a natural bastion of tuff with vertical fissures. The place attracts every year thousand of tourists for the environmental and monumental beauties, for the good kitchen and for the vivacity of the inhabitants.

 Historical outlines:
In antiquity, Piano of Sorrento belonged to the city of Sorrento, first as colony and, then, as Roman Town hall.   The continuous dependence from Sorrento, unless for a brief parenthesis among the XI and the XII century, it made to increase in the years the need of autonomy and the contrasts with the other city they were inevitable, so much that you/they flowed, in 1648, in a violent concomitant revolt with the Neapolitan revolution of Masaniello.  The revolt was, however, smothered in the blood but not for this Plan of Sorrento it abdicated its desire of autonomy. In 1808, for Regal Decree of the king French Joseph Bonaparte, Plain of Sorrento got the independence and was constituted as autonomous Commune.   

 In 1861 it also separated territorially him from Destination and in 1865 from Sant'Agnello, reducing himself/herself/itself to the actual confinements. In 1906 the first tram line was inaugurated sorrentina that connected the peninsula with the rest of the province, also favoring the development of the tourist and commercial activity. Riaccorpata again to Sorrento, from the 1946 Floor of Sorrento he/she returned to be, in definitive way, autonomous together with the other Communes of the coastline.

Place to visit:
La Parrocchiale di San Michele, Basilica della SS. Trinità, il Convento delle Agostiniane e l’annessa Chiesa della Misericordia, Palazzo Maresca, Villa Massa, Villa Lauro.