Off the beaten path in Sorrento Italy

Sorrento is basically a town catering to tourists looking for hotels and restaurants. It's a very good transportation hub for day tripping to Capri, the AC, Naples and Pompeii. What sites of interest Sorrento has can easily be seen in a day. Google AI has a decent overview if you ask what there is to see in Sorrento.

To save myself some time, I've cut and pasted an excerpt from my Trip Report from a couple of years ago when we based in Sorrento for 2 weeks.

We decided to take a walk to some Roman Villa ruins east of town called Villa Pollio Fellice https://www.romanoimpero.com/2018/02/villa-pollio-felice-sorrento-campania.html and Bagni Regina Giovanna-The Baths of Queen Regina which are side by side. The ruins are nothing more than the outlines of walls of where it stood, but it appears to have been quite impressive at the time as it was built on multi levels to conform with the shape of the land. The baths next door is a grotto protected from the ocean by a stone arch, and legend has it that the Queen of Naples and friends and lovers used to swim naked here.
It’s about a 35-minute walk and you need to be paying attention to find the signage to get there. It’s a paved path most of the way but you also need to walk along the side of the road outside of Sorrento with traffic whizzing by. I’m not sure what the rules are here, but in Canada it’s a law that if there is no sidewalk and you have to walk alongside a road or highway, you must face traffic. The majority of people here were walking with and not against traffic, endangering themselves and those of us having to walk out into traffic to get by them. Be aware of your surroundings so you don’t get clipped by a bus. Once off the road and after the paved path ends, you’ll need proper footwear and be part mountain goat to make the final 20 or 30 yards. We enjoyed it, but it’s not a must-see destination. In the RS Guidebook it’s advertised as an isolated beach with Roman Ruins. I think a better description is of ruins of a Roman Villa with a small spot of sand if you’re willing to haul your stuff in.

Since we were there for 2 weeks this was on one of our 'rest' days. Most of our days were day trips to either the Amalfi Coast, Capri, Naples, Pompeii and Herculaneum

We also did the walk Allan described and loved it. We also did another hike (google hikes around Sorrento) and most fun of all, a food and wine bike tour with Enjoy Bike Sorrento.
We stayed in Sorrento four nights and spent most of our time in Sorrento. We did do one day trip to Pompeii and meant to go over to Capri but just didn’t get there. We also thought we would do a bike tour to Mount Versuvius but didn’t get there, either.
So if you can ride a bike, you have more options for the area. E-bikes make it easier in that hilly area.