Grand Hotel Excelsior Vittoria

The same family has tended this clifftop estate since 1834, when Sorrento was a whistle-stop on the Grand Tour. Terraced gardens cascade toward azure water, while frescoed salons hold the kind of old-world grandeur that cannot be manufactured—only inherited. Pavarotti's piano still stands in the music room, silent witness to nearly two centuries of unbroken hospitality.