Not far from Piazza Sant'Antonino, there are the Church and the Convent of San Francesco, with the characteristic cloister nowadays used as scenery for concerts of classical music during the summer season. The cloister, with a rectangular plan, has columns and their capitals carved in tufa rocks and which form slender double lancet arches in Gothic Moresque. Its style is not uniform because of several restoration works done in different times, but it is very suggestive.

Many other churches and convents, villas and palaces are in the centre of Sorrento, but unfortunately they are not all visitable. Among them we remember: the home of the poet Torquato Tasso and the one by his sister Cornelia; the palaces Veniero, Correale and Galantario; the churches of San Paolo, Ss. Annunziata, Madonna del Carmine, Maria's Servants, of the Addolorata. Finally we have to mention the museum Correale di Terranova, where are shown the highest examples of arts and crafts in Sorrento: inlaid wood work, embroidery, silks, furnishings.

In the vineyards behind the convent, on the edge of the cliffs, they made the Villa Comunale (Public Gardens) at the end of the 19th century, with a wonderful view over the bay in front of Sorrento. It is a small but graceful open space, pleasantly shady by the trees and with flowerbeds where they put some marble busts. The adjacent rooms of the convent nowadays house the local School of Arts, who continues the prestigious tradition of the inlaid wood works done by the craftsmen of Sorrento.