Ristorante Belvedere Sorrento is in the heart of the Imperial Hotel Tramontano, a historical building in Sorrento city center who dates back to famous Italian poet and writer Torquato Tasso ‘s birth. He wrote the famous “Aminta” and “Jerusalem Delivered”.

As a matter of facts, The Imperial Hotel Tramontano starts its story as a private villa first and then as a hotel since 1812.

In fact, on March 11th 1544 the famous writer Torquato Tasso was born on the right hand of the Tramontano. Later, the Tasso family moved and the villa had a new owner that thought of it as a hotel. And he wasn’t wrong, as during the Romantic Age the Imperial Hotel Tramontano became part of the well-known grand tour hosting poets and literates that made the literary and artistic history.

Here stayed John Milton during his long journeys, Goethe, Byron, Scott, Shelley, Lamartine, Musset, Keats, Leopardi, and Longfellow.

James Fenimore Cooper lived here as long as he started “Water Witch” and Harriet Beecher Stowe found here the inspiration for her “Agnes from Sorrento”.

During his 6 months stay at Tramontano Henrick Ibsen wrote “Ghosts”.

In 1902 Giambattista the Curtis composed here the famous “Torna a Surriento” (“Come back to Sorrento”) song which was meant to become an iconic song of the Neapolitan artists.