The Sorrentine Peninsula is a peninsula located in southern Italy that separates the Gulf of Naples to the north from the Gulf of Salerno to the south. A peninsula is a piece of land that is nearly surrounded by Water but connected to Mainland via an Isthmus. Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest The Gulf of Naples is located in the south western coast of Italy ( Province of Naples, Campania region The Gulf of Salerno is a gulf of the Tyrrhenian Sea in the coast of the province of Salerno in south-western Italy. The peninsula is named after its main town, Sorrento, which is located on the north (Gulf of Naples) coast. Sorrento is a small city in Campania, Italy, with some 16500 inhabitants The Amalfi Coast is located on the south coast. The Amalfi Coast, or Costiera Amalfitana in Italian, is a stretch of coastline on the southern side of the Sorrentine Peninsula of Italy ( The island of Capri lies off the western tip of the peninsula in the Tyrrhenian Sea. Capri ( Italian pronunciation Cápri usual English pronunciation Caprí is an Italian island off the Sorrentine Peninsula, on the south side The Tyrrhenian Sea (Mar Tirreno is part of the Mediterranean Sea off of the western coast of Italy. The whole area is an important destination for tourism. Tourism is Travel for Recreational or Leisure purposes The World Tourism Organization defines tourists as people who "travel