Sorrento (Sorrento, Italy) is an Italian commune in the province of Naples in Campania.
The name derives from the Latin word Surrentum, which itself comes from surreo, that is to say converges, this referring to the various rivers that converge at this place after getting heights. Name, as a fanciful hypothesis is linked to the legendary mermaids inhabit these places, those who tried to bewitch Ulysses.