Piazza della Vittoria (Victory Square), Sorrento

The Victory Square snuggles between two Marinas of Sorrento, the Big Marina (Marina Grande) and the Small Marina (Marina Piccola). In the middle of the square is a garden with plenty of shade under the palms. People often stop there to take in the incomparable views of the bay and the Gulf of Naples.

On one side of the area, the Imperial Hotel Tromontano overlooks the harbor. The famous Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen stayed in the Imperial Hotel Tromontano for six months in 1881, where he wrote his masterpiece play "Ghosts." Disenchanted with his native home in Norway, Ibsen took his family into self-imposed exile and settled in Sorrento for four years.

On the corner of Victory Square and Vittoria Veneto Street, just next to the Imperial Hotel Tromontano's elegant bridge across Vittorio Veneto Street, one can find a plague commemorating Ibsen's stay.

Part of the building that forms today's Imperial Hotel Tromontano was known as Villa Laurito Mastrogiudice. It was here Sorrento's favorite son, poet Torquato Tasso was born on March 11, 1544.