This lady, who sits outside her apartment, makes crochet squares for sale to tourists passing by. All the finished squares are in her pink carrier bag! Marina Grande is a great place to watch the world go by, I walked down the steps from Sorrento, wondering who, many years before me had walked in my steps. I had read about the history behind the village prior to visiting. I sat in the area for a number of hours watching the world pass me by. Above the Marina are a number of hotels ranging from 2-5 star. There are a number of restaurants in the village selling fresh fish for dinner. The Marina Grande (Large Marina), which was the only seafaring village in Sorrento until the 15th century, is located on the mouth of the ravine closing on the west the old city and crossed on top by the bridge of Parsano, from where it started the Via Minerva (Athena's Road) leading to the sanctuary of Athena on the Punta Campanella. Marina Grande is separated from the centre of Sorrento by the promontory which housed the Roman villa of Agrippa Postumus, nephew of the emperor Octavian Augustus. Even now as you enter the Marina Grande (if the pedestrian path is followed) through the ancient gate, built with large blocks of limestone. For its construction typology (even if it was renovated many times) it is estimated that it belongs to the 3rd century before Christ. From here entered the Saracen pirates who ravaged Sorrento in 1558, because of the betrayal of a slave who, as told by the tradition, in the middle of the night secretly opened the gate, otherwise impregnable. The Marina Grande of Sorrento has been touched only partially by touristic development. It has better saved its peculiarity of seafaring suburb, thanks to the character of its inhabitants, who have always formed a community much united and tenaciously attached to their family values and to their working and religious traditions. Here the beach is felt and experienced as a collective space (as in the past) for the work and the free time of the whole community, as demonstrated by the presence on the sand of the fishing nets, the equipments and the beached boats. Susan Thank you for your support on my previous post " Amalfi 1 Italy "