Spiaggia di Sorrento

Physical

Sorrento has no natural sandy beaches — its beaches are built on platforms and stairways set into the rock, engineering the town's access to the sea.

Social

Draws a mix of middle-class and mass tourism, most of it associated with the town rather than with the beach itself.

Context

The absence of a natural shoreline has made Sorrento a case of tourism built around the sea without a conventional coastline to support it.

Environment

Highly modified, artificial shoreline built on platforms over rock.

Taxonomy

• Luxury Economic Grid + Liminal Edge
• Body on Display
• Domesticated Nature
• Ritual Season + Daily Rhythm
• Middle-Class Holiday + Mass Tourism
• Engineered Infrastructure + Protected Historic Heritage
• Visible Threshold + Chromatic Field