Better Late than Never, Villas in Sorrento!

So far, every hotel we've stayed in has been as unique as the city we've visited The hotels in Florence and Rome have been similar as both were hotels that consisted of one floor in a multistory, ancient building; they only differed in decorating styles and shower set up. Instead of staying in a typical hotel in Sorrento, we stayed in the Villa Del Romano.

The Villa Del Romana is a gorgeous open villa with the front door leading directly into an open ceiling garden. The garden is the center of the villa with rooms and staircases branching off of it. One branch of the house led to the boys' rooms, another door led to the kitchen, while the stone staircase led to the rooms upstairs. To get to the room I stayed in with the other girls, you had to go through the main kitchen to the outside and enter through a side door.While getting to the room was inconvenient since most of the doors are not anywhere similar to an American door, it was worth it to stay in such a gorgeous room.

The room was spacious with white walls and intricate, wrought iron furniture. It consisted of a main room that had a pull out couch that doubled as a bed and it had a wrought iron dining table. Off of that room branched another bedroom on one side and on the other was the loft, kitchen and bathroom.

During the Roman empire, prosperous families built villas in Sorrento as vacation homes. The gorgeous views and weather (which we witnessed at the Amalfi coast) drew families from around the country. The increase of homes in Sorrento gave a boost to the local economy by creating jobs in both construction and the service industry. However, the villas of Sorrento also had potential to damage their economy as well. Usually the people who commissioned the villas used them as vacation homes. The duration of their vacations varied, which meant they didn't always use the local population to staff the villas. This was also the case with food. The length of the stay determined whether or not a family would bring food from their permanent residence to Sorrento. Whether they damaged the economy or not, without the wealthy families of Italy, we would not have had the pleasure of staying in a renovated villa.