Imperial Hotel Tramontano
Sorrento, Campania, Italy.
There’s a strong literary theme to the list of great names to have rested at The Imperial Hotel. In fact, the west wing of the building is itself said to be the birthplace of the celebrated Italian poet Torquato Tasso (March 11, 1544).
One can almost overlook the fact that the hotel has played host to numerous monarchs, Edward VII and Queen Wilhelmena of Holland among them. It is, after all, the impressive array of poets and authors which catches the eye. James Fenimore Cooper lived here while writing his famous work The Water Witch, as did Harriet Beecher Stowe who was moved to write Agnes of Sorrento. It was also the place in which Henrik Ibsen completed his great play Ghosts in 1881.
Then there are the great poets: John Keats, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Sir Walter Scott, Alphonse de Lamartine, and Alfred de Musset.
And if that were not impressive enough, it is even said that John Milton visited while travelling through Italy during the seventeenth century.
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One can almost overlook the fact that the hotel has played host to numerous monarchs, Edward VII and Queen Wilhelmena of Holland among them. It is, after all, the impressive array of poets and authors which catches the eye. James Fenimore Cooper lived here while writing his famous work The Water Witch, as did Harriet Beecher Stowe who was moved to write Agnes of Sorrento. It was also the place in which Henrik Ibsen completed his great play Ghosts in 1881.
Then there are the great poets: John Keats, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Sir Walter Scott, Alphonse de Lamartine, and Alfred de Musset.
And if that were not impressive enough, it is even said that John Milton visited while travelling through Italy during the seventeenth century.
See the Historic Hotels in Southern Italy index
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