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Incontri Musicali Sorrentini is the main cultural event of the year, offering a bevy of concerts and theatrical entertainments from the last week of August to the end of September, many held in the famous Moorish-style cloister of the church of San Francesco. There are several outdoor venues in Sant'Agnello nearby. Check with your hotel or the Sorrento tourist office (
Opened in 1957, the Armida stages folk and traditional Neapolitan musical and dance performance dinners, including the Sorrento Show. It also has a cinema featuring family-friendly movies in Italian.
A 1930s villa, once the base for the Fiorentino family's embroidered-handkerchief enterprise, is now the base for a foundation that organizes frequent art exhibitions, musical performances, readings, and other cultural events.
