Set up by the Tramontano family among the aristocratic villas on the sea – one the birthplace of Torquato Tasso – its guests have included Lamartine, Byron, Scott, Shelley and, in 1829, the writer Fenimore Cooper. It was the “royal palace” of Europe: the future Edward VII came in 1862 and Empress Maria Alexandrovna of Russia and her retinue stayed for two months in 1871, receiving
Vittorio Emanuele II, and here her daughter, Grand Duchess Maria, was engaged to the Duke of Edinburgh. Ibsen put the finishing touches to “Ghosts” here in 1881. “Turna a Surriento” was sung here for the first time in 1902. Top-class classic style

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