Araprite 'e Purtune: Living Nativity Scene 2025 – The itinerary in the historic center of Sorrento
2025-12-28 08:00 - 2025-12-30 17:00 UTC
With “Araprite ‘e purtune, ce sta O’ presepio” the living nativity scene returns to Sorrento, which proposes a new cultural project that enhances the Neapolitan tradition of the eighteenth century through a journey through the ancient doors of the historic center, from 28 to 30 December.
Araprite ‘e Purtune: the living nativity scene in Sorrento
The 2025 edition represents a significant evolution: the nativity scene leaves its usual location, the gardens of the Vescovato, to dialogue directly with the city, returning to the public the narrative and symbolic power of one of the most representative artistic expressions of Campania culture. The project invites citizens and visitors to rediscover the artistic and spiritual dimension of the Nativity through an itinerary that combines history, architectural heritage and tradition, contributing to the valorization of the territory.
Route and information
The official route will soon be announced, with all the doors that will participate in this initiative, starting from Piazza Tasso, passing through the historic alleys of Sorrento.
The cultural project “Araprite ‘e Purtune” will be inaugurated on December 28th, until December 30th, from 5.30pm to 8.30pm.

Resistenze Creative: exhibition at Villa Fiorentino
2026-02-20 08:00 - 2026-03-15 17:00
The Sorrento Foundation presents {R}Esistenze Creative (Resistenze Creative), a collective exhibition of painting, sculpture and photography, scheduled at Villa Fiorentino from 20 February to 15 March 2026.
The exhibition proposes a complex artistic journey, which focuses on creativity as a form of cultural and contemporary resistance.
{R}Esistenze Creative: The exhibition project
Resistenze Creative was born as a space for discussion between different artists and languages, offering a broad and inclusive vision of contemporary art. The works on display interact with each other through themes linked to identity, memory and transformation.
Villa Fiorentino in Sorrento confirms itself as a point of reference for the artistic and cultural promotion of the area. The exhibition rooms welcome the public in a historical context that enhances the experience of the visit.
Participating artists
They exhibit in the exhibition “Creative Resistances”:

JULSIP
JULIANA MOURA
RUBEN STAIANO
TONY CELENTANO
FRANCESCA D’ESPOSITO

JULSIP
Young artist from Sorrento, Julsip focuses his research on the soul as a dimension free from the material constraints of the body. His work moves towards the dissolution of form, the elimination of physical contours and limits, to restore a fluid and immaterial vision of existence.
Through signs that expand in space like heartbeats, his works evoke the conflict between body and spirit, between matter and infinity. The lines break, move away, recompose, giving shape to an intense reflection on human identity as a soul trapped in the contours.
Participation in Resistenze Creative represents an important stage of artistic growth for Julsip, inserting it into a contemporary dialogue that enhances inner research and visual experimentation.
JULIANA MOURA
Juliana Moura, a self-taught Italian-Brazilian visual artist, develops a constantly evolving research that crosses painting, watercolor, collage, sculpture and assemblage. From 2022, his artistic path opens up to new materials and languages, expanding a poetics deeply linked to spirituality and transcendence.
His professional experience in the pharmaceutical sector influences his artistic reflection, bringing to the center themes such as the body, existence and the relationship between the visible and the invisible. For Juliana, abstract art is a divine channel, a bridge between the physical and spiritual worlds.
The works, characterized by strong materiality, dynamic contrasts and multidimensional depth, become true sensorial portals. Dense textures, plastic mixtures, plaster and symbolic references to nature – water, air, earth and gold – build a language that invites the viewer to an experience of reconnection with the transcendent.
RUBEN STAIANO
Born in Piano di Sorrento in 1992, Ruben Staiano developed a strong bond with beauty and the environment around him from a young age. His artistic research ranges from floral motifs to oriental suggestions, up to installation projects with a strong conceptual impact.
Through the use of acrylic pastes, resins and unconventional materials, Ruben constructs a vibrant chromatic universe that dialogues with the emotions of the observer. Alongside his pictorial production, he carries out an ironic and critical reflection on contemporary communication.
Works such as “Sit down, we must talk” or “Did you hear what I hear” question relational dynamics and mutual listening, while works such as “Vista Ristorata” introduce the theme of rebirth and change of perspective. His art invites you to explore new interior territories, listening to your most authentic voice.
TONY CELENTANO
Visual artist and tattoo artist active since 1999, Tony Celentano develops a research that comes from realism to evolve towards a profound reflection on space, matter and gesture. The body is the first place of his investigation: not a decorative surface, but a living space to cross and transform.
Inspired by the principles of Spatialism and the research of Lucio Fontana, Celentano overcomes the two-dimensionality of the work, conceiving it as an open and continually transforming act. The gesture affects the material, creating symbolic fractures between full and empty, visible and invisible.
In parallel with tattooing, the artist develops sculptural and multi-material research using metal, wood, leather and resins. From this experimentation was born his idea of ​​”fluid art“, in which color and matter build dynamic trajectories, transforming the work into an energy field rather than a static object.
FRANCESCA D’ESPOSITO
Photographer originally from Sorrento, Francesca D’Esposito has been carrying out a visual research for almost ten years that has its roots in her personal history and deep connection with the land. Daughter of farmers, through photography she tells the story of the dignity of peasant work, the daily gestures, the slowness of the seasons.
After training gained through specialist courses and collaborations with local professionals, Francesca feels the need to turn her lens towards what belongs to her most intimately: the countryside, the hands that sow and reap, family memories.
Alongside documentary photography, he experiments with light painting, using light as a narrative tool to enhance matter and emotions. The images on display are an act of love and belonging: a dialogue between past and present, an invitation to recognize the value of a tradition that continues to live through those who keep it.
Information for the public

Periodo di apertura: 20 febbraio – 15 marzo 2026
Orari: Dalle 10:00 – 13:00 e dalle 16:00 – 19:00
Ingresso: libero

Exhibition of contemporary jewels: "Codice RJW Memoria Futura"
2026-03-21 08:00 - 2026-05-03 17:00
From 21 March to 3 May 2026, Villa Fiorentino hosts the exhibition “Codice RJW / Memoria Futura”, dedicated to contemporary jewelery and the five years of the Rome Jewelry Week.
The exhibition project represents a true manifesto of contemporary jewellery, which today goes beyond its simple ornamental function to become an artistic language, a tool for reflection and a means of creative research.
Mostra Codice RJW / Memoria Futura
Curated by architect Monica Cecchini and organized by the InCinque Open Art Monti Cultural Association, the exhibition retraces the five editions of the Rome Jewelry Week from 2021 to 2025.
The exhibition itinerary develops like a living archive in which the jewel becomes, from time to time:

object of connection between artists and the public
travel notebook and personal memory
ethical terrain of experimentation
an exercise in baroque virtuosity
symbol of light and spiritual reflection

Il Codice RJW: an international network
Collaborations and social projects
The exhibition also highlights the network dimension of Rome Jewelry Week, represented by the RJW Code, a shared language that has generated collaborations between artists, designers and master goldsmiths.
Among the most significant initiatives that emerged during the editions is the Jewels for Freedom project, dedicated to women and the valorization of jewelery as a tool of expression and social commitment.
Towards Rome Jewelry Week 2026
Jewelry as a story of Italian culture
The exhibition also looks to the future: during the exhibition the theme of Rome Jewelry Week 2026 will be presented, dedicated to jewelery as a narrative of the history of Italian art and culture of the last eighty years.
The title of the next edition will be “The crown of ingenuity”, an invitation to interpret the jewel as a creative symbol capable of narrating the cultural and artistic heritage of the country.
Information about the exhibition
Dates, times and entry
Dates: March 21 – May 3, 2026
Location: Villa Fiorentino
Hours: 10:00 – 13:00 / 16:00 – 19:00
Entrance: €5

Photographic exhibition by Oreste Pipolo
2026-03-21 08:00 - 2026-05-03 17:00
From March 21st to May 3rd, Villa Fiorentino hosts a photographic exhibition dedicated to Oreste Pipolo, one of the most important Italian photographers of the second half of the twentieth century and an iconic figure of Neapolitan photography.
Through a selection of images that have made his work famous, the exhibition tells the world of Neapolitan weddings, popular traditions and the most authentic moments of daily life in Naples, transformed by Pipolo’s lens into intense visual stories full of humanity.
Photographic exhibition by Oreste Pipolo
Pipolo’s photography has become famous for its ability to document the Neapolitan wedding ritual with irony, empathy and spontaneity. His images capture collective gestures, emotions and rituals, providing an authentic cross-section of Neapolitan society and culture.
His work has gone beyond the boundaries of ceremonial photography, transforming itself into a true anthropological and social story, capable of restoring the lively and theatrical character of the city.
A photographer who has become a symbol of Naples
Oreste Pipolo’s work has gained international notoriety also thanks to the documentary The Neapolitan Wedding, which told the general public about his activity and the world of Neapolitan weddings.
The exhibition therefore represents an opportunity to rediscover the gaze of an author who was able to transform moments of everyday life into images capable of telling the cultural identity of a territory.
Where and when to visit the exhibition
Location: Villa Fiorentino
Opening hours: 10:00 – 13:00 / 16:00 – 19:00
Cost: €5

Sorrento Coast Science Festival 2026: science in the Sorrento peninsula
2026-04-09 08:00 - 2026-04-12 17:00
From 9 to 12 April 2026, the Sorrento Peninsula hosts the first edition of the Sorrento Coast Science Festival, an event dedicated to scientific dissemination that involves institutions, experts and the public in a program full of meetings, shows and activities.
Promoted by IANUAE cooperative of cultural services and by the SLAM association, with the support of the municipalities of the peninsula and the Sorrento Foundation, the festival was created with the aim of describing science in an accessible and engaging way.
The central theme of the 2026 edition is “Migrations”, a concept that crosses nature, society and culture, interpreted as a vital force and fundamental principle of every system.
Sorrento Coast Science Festival 2026: complete program
The Sorrento Coast Science Festival transforms the Sorrento Peninsula into a large dissemination space, involving symbolic places, squares, paths and cultural spaces.
Through a multidisciplinary program, the festival offers:

scientific conferences and talks
educational laboratories
excursions in the area
shows and performances
activities dedicated to schools

A project that combines knowledge, entertainment and active participation.
Guests of the Sorrento Coast Science Festival 2026
Among the protagonists of the event are important popularizers and personalities from the national scientific scene:

Federico Benuzzi
Beatrice Mautino
Alberto Grandi
Massimo Di Maio
Giuseppe Barbera
Umberto Guidoni
Barbascura X

A line-up that guarantees high-level content, accessible to a wide audience.
9 April 2026: Opening of the Sorrento Coast Science Festival
The inaugural day marks the official start of the festival, with the presentation of the theme “Migrations” and the protagonists of the 2026 edition.
An introductory moment designed to involve the public and kick off four days of events dedicated to science.
10 April 2026: Conferences and educational activities
The second day will be mainly dedicated to meetings with disseminators and activities for schools.
Talks, workshops and moments of discussion will offer a scientific interpretation of the topic of migration, involving students and citizens.
11 April 2026: Excursions and workshops in the area
The festival also moves outdoors, with excursions and activities in the area organized in collaboration with local bodies and associations.
An opportunity to closely observe natural phenomena and understand the concept of migration through direct experience.
April 12, 2026: Final show with Barbascura
The final day culminates with the show “Sono qui per Caos”, scheduled for 9pm.
An event that combines scientific dissemination and entertainment, closing the festival with an engaging moment accessible to all.

Scientific Laboratories from 9 to 12 April
During the Sorrento Coast Science Festival, scientific laboratories will take place every day, where it will be possible to participate guided by experts in the various scientific subjects who will accompany participants in a direct experience to discover up close how “science is born“. These workshops, described as interactive, itinerant and engaging, will be suitable for both adults and children
The workshops will take place every afternoon, from 3.30pm to 5.30pm, from 9th to 12th April 2026, in four different locations:

Sorrento – Villa Fiorentino
Sant’Agnello – Oasi in Città WWF
Piano di Sorrento – Villa Fondi
Meta – Alimuri Beach

Attention: The only exception is April 12th in Meta which will be open from 10:00 to 12:00.

Usefull Information about Sorrento Coast Science Festival

Event: Sorrento Coast Science Festival 2026
Dates: 9 – 12 April 2026
Location: Sorrento Peninsula
Theme: Migrations
Organization: IANUAE, SLAM, Municipalities of the Sorrento Peninsula, Sorrento Foundation

O’ Sole Mio – Opera and Neapolitan Tradition in Villa Fiorentino
2026-04-15 21:00 - 2026-10-28 21:00
The Elegance of Opera meets the charm of Neapolitan Music, giving life to a unique concert with a dreamlike atmosphere.
This is “O’ Sole Mio“, where the famous opera arias and the most famous Neapolitan songs come together in a perfect union, enhanced by the elegance of the prestigious rooms of Villa Fiorentino, in Sorrento.
The concert, organized by Opera in Roma, includes the presence of Soprano and Tenor, accompanied by Mandolin and Piano alone.
The artists will perform a musical repertoire celebrating Neapolitan and operatic music: from Traviata, to Tosca and Rigoletto, passing through Funiculì Funiculà, Torna a Surriento and O’ Sole Mio.
Soprano, Elena Memoli
Tenor, Marco Ferrante
Mandolin, Carmela Persico
Piano, Antonino De Rosa
Artistic Director, Ivan Iannone
Let yourself be enchanted by the dream atmosphere offered by one of the most enchanting places in Sorrento, among the notes of the Neapolitan Song and the Opera!

Info and Costs:

Period: from 15 April to 28 October 2026
Time: 9.00pm
Full ticket: €55.00
Reduced ticket: €50.00 (Reserved for: Groups of at least 8 people | Minors between the ages of 8 and 17 | Military personnel | Students under 26)

Turning to the Light: the international exhibition at Villa Fiorentino in Sorrento
2026-05-15 08:00 - 2026-06-16 17:00
From 15 May to 14 June 2026, the spaces of Villa Fiorentino will host Turning to the Light, an international collective exhibition included in the Sorrento Contemporary Art format.
The exhibition brings together artists from different cultural contexts, giving life to an artistic journey focused on the theme of light as an expressive, symbolic and narrative element, capable of guiding the viewer in an immersive experience between works, installations and performative moments.
An international exhibition of contemporary art and experimentation
“Turning to the Light” was born from a shared research between international artists, united by the use of light as a founding element of their artistic language.
The title itself recalls a dynamic gesture: turning towards the light, an action that implies movement, research and transformation. In this context, light becomes not only a visual element, but also a symbol of orientation, identity and connection.
The project develops within a global dimension, in which art responds to a contemporary condition often characterized by uncertainty and change, proposing new possible directions.
The dialogue with Paul Klee
An important reference of the exhibition is the work of Paul Klee, in particular the work Hauptweg und Nebenwege.
The artists involved are inspired by the visual and conceptual rhythm of the work, suggesting an idea of ​​a path made up of main and secondary roads, a metaphor for the choices and possibilities that art is able to indicate.
This dialogue with the history of art enriches the project, creating a bridge between the past and the contemporary
The light as an artistic language
The central element of the exhibition is light, understood as a truly autonomous artistic medium.
During the twentieth century, light took on an increasingly important role in contemporary art, becoming a tool for experimentation and research. In “Turning to the Light”, it takes on multiple forms:

light installations
site-specific works
performative interventions
direct interactions with the public

Each artist interprets light in a personal way, helping to create a dynamic and continually transforming exhibition itinerary.
An immersive experience at Villa Fiorentino
The exhibition takes place in the rooms of Villa Fiorentino, one of the most important cultural locations in Sorrento.
Located in the heart of the historic center, a few steps from Piazza Tasso, the villa becomes an integral part of the exhibition project.
The works are designed to dialogue with the environments of the structure, transforming the spaces through site-specific interventions and creating a direct relationship between art, architecture and visitor.
Information about the exhibition

Title: Turning to the Light
Date: 15 maggio – 14 giugno 2026
Location: Villa Fiorentino in Sorrento
Ticket: €5, free entry for residents

FAQ: Turning to the Light Sorrento 2026

When does the Turning to the Light exhibition take place in Sorrento?
From May 15th to June 14th 2026.
Where is the exhibition held?
The exhibition takes place at Villa Fiorentino, in the center of Sorrento.
What kind of exhibition is Turning to the Light?
It is an international collective exhibition of contemporary art focused on the theme of light.
What is the main theme of the exhibition?
Light as an artistic, symbolic and narrative element, interpreted by various contemporary artists.
Is the exhibition suitable for tourists?
Yes, it is a cultural event open to all, ideal for those visiting Sorrento in the spring.

Roberto Colella: Showcase in Sorrento
2026-05-30 18:30 - 21:30
The solo debut of the former frontman of La Maschera and Neapolitan singer-songwriter Roberto Colella will be the protagonist of a showcase in Sorrento in Villa Fiorentino, Saturday 30 May. A highly anticipated event that enriches the city’s cultural calendar and confirms Sorrento’s role as a point of reference for music and live events in the Sorrento Peninsula.
The live event is part of the artistic programming of the Sorrento Foundation, bringing one of the most representative artists of the new Neapolitan music scene to the stage.
Roberto Colella: showcase in Sorrento
Former frontman of La Maschera and solo artist, Roberto Colella is known for an intense and recognizable style, which combines popular sounds, profound lyrics and a strong territorial identity. His songs describe Naples and Southern Italy with a poetic and social perspective, managing to involve a transversal audience.
the show in Sorrento will be a unique opportunity to listen to his most loved songs live and live an authentic musical experience, in an evocative context like that of Villa Fiorentino.
Showcase at Villa Fiorentino: info and access
The narrative heart of the album lies in the concept of rebirth, Colella explores the metamorphosis of the spirit: from individual solitude to the collective solitude of a people, from the passion that consumes to that which awakens new visions. The album unfolds between delicate ballads and energetic songs, offering a plurality of universal sounds and atmospheres.
​The meeting will be moderated by Mariella Nica and Franco Maresca of Progetti D’autore, who will dialogue with the artist to delve deeper into the genesis of the songs and the profound meaning of this solo chapter.
Main information:
• Date: May 30, 2026, 7:00 pm
• Location: Villa Fiorentino, Sorrento
• Free admission
• Moderators: Mariella Nica and Franco Maresca (Author’s Projects)
Contacts and Info: 328 200 51 69

Eduardo De Felice presents his new album at Villa Fiorentino
2026-06-06 19:00 - 22:00
On Saturday, June 6th 2026 at 7:00 PM, Villa Fiorentino will host a free showcase by Italian singer-songwriter Eduardo De Felice for the presentation of his new album “In ogni giorno vissuto”, released on April 17th 2026 by Suono Libero Music.
The event, open to the public while seats last, will combine live music, storytelling and listening sessions in the elegant setting of Villa Fiorentino in the heart of Sorrento.
A journey through twenty years of songwriting
“In ogni giorno vissuto” is the result of over twenty years of songwriting and musical research.
The album features nine tracks blending melodic intensity, intimate atmospheres and strong narrative songwriting, inspired by the great Italian singer-songwriter tradition of the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Musical references include artists such as:

Lucio Battisti
Lucio Dalla
Enzo Carella

The album was released by Suono Libero Music.
Live showcase and special guests
During the evening, Eduardo De Felice will alternate live performances with stories and guided listening moments focused on the album’s artistic journey.
The event will be moderated by journalist Sara Grillo, with contributions from:

Nando Misuraca
Alfonso Paesano

The showcase will also highlight the importance of vinyl as the album’s main physical format, emphasizing its warm and immersive sound identity.
