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Sorrento set to celebrate the start of Christmas

Spectacular Christmas trees are a
feature in southern Italy

There will be special masses taking place in churches in Sorrento over the weekend as residents and visitors join together to celebrate the official beginning of the Christmas season.

Il giorno dell’immacolata concezione (the day of the immaculate conception) has been celebrated for centuries in Italy on 8 December.

It is an official festa (feast day) when the immaculate conception of Jesus is celebrated in the Christian calendar. It also marks the start of the Christmas season when the lights and trimmings go up.

Most of the shops in Sorrento will be open as usual and doing a brisk trade as many people will be out doing their Christmas shopping.

As in many other countries across the world, Christmas shopping actually begins earlier than 8 December in Italy, with Christmas trees, lights and decorations starting to go up during November.

But Sorrento’s Corso Italia and the popular shopping street Via San Cesareo will be thronged with activity from now until Christmas Eve.

Buona Festa!

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THE BODY PARTS IN THE LIBRARY

The first Library Ladies Mystery, featuring a new detective duo, Sallie Parker and Jo Pudsey, is now available for sale on Amazon.

Set in an English country village, The Body Parts in the Library is a new cosy crime novel written by Val Culley, the author of Death in the High City and The Shooting in Sorrento.

Sallie and Jo are both Library Assistants who have fallen victim to cost-cutting redundancies. A group of volunteers have taken over the running of the village library where they used to work and when one of them is the victim of a prank, the Library Ladies are immediately suspected and find themselves shunned by most of the village.

Determined to clear their names, they try to find out who was really responsible for the prank. But after more bizarre events, a grim discovery in the library leaves villagers in a state of shock, prompting the Library Ladies to conduct their own investigation to make sure the real culprit is exposed and life in the peaceful village of Upper Mickle can return to normal.

The Body Parts in the Library is available on Amazon Kindle or as a paperback.

SORRENTO GUIDE BOOK

A good guide book for visitors to Sorrento is Frommer's Amalfi Coast, which has a whole chapter devoted to the town and its peninsula, including information on lesser known attractions of the area that other guide books sometimes ignore.

This book takes readers on a tour of the Sorrentine Peninsula, starting from Castellamare di Stabia, with details of other places on the peninsula such as Vico Equense, Massa Lubrense, Sant’Agata su due Golfi, Nerano and Termini.

Buy Frommer's Amalfi Coast with Naples, Capri and Pompeii direct from Amazon.

DEATH IN THE HIGH CITY

A cosy crime novel set in Lombardy in northern Italy, Death in the High City is believed to be the first British crime novel to use Bergamo as its location.

The book is the first in a series of Butler and Bartorelli Mysteries, featuring detective duo Kate Butler, a journalist, and Steve Bartorelli, a retired Detective Chief Inspector.

Death in the High City centres on the investigation into the death of an English woman who had been staying in the beautiful Città Alta while writing a biography of the Bergamo-born composer Gaetano Donizetti.

Death in the High City is available from Amazon in paperback and as an e-book.

THE SHOOTING IN SORRENTO

The Shooting in Sorrento, a crime novel set in the resort, is now available from Amazon.

The second Butler and Bartorelli mystery by Val Culley, it is the sequel to Death in the High City, which was set in Bergamo in Lombardy.

The book - written for readers who prefer the 'cosy crime' genre - features journalist Kate Butler and her partner, Steve Bartorelli, who is a retired Detective Chief Inspector.

They are in Sorrento for the wedding of the daughter of one of Steve’s Italian cousins.

When tragedy strikes an English family staying at their hotel, Kate feels she has to help.

She joins forces with another visitor to Sorrento to investigate after it becomes clear the Italian police aren’t looking further than the English family.

The Shooting in Sorrento is available on Amazon Kindle or as a paperback.

VISIT OUR SISTER SITES

If your love of Italy stretches beyond Sorrento and the south, you may enjoy visiting our sister sites, devoted to the elegant and historic northern Italian cities of Bergamo and Padova.

Situated just north of Milan and close to the lakes and mountains, Bergamo has become a familiar name because of its major international airport but is an attractive place to visit in its own right, combining contemporary sophistication with medieval charm.

Padova, an elegant city in the Veneto less than half an hour by express rail services from Venice, boasts a picturesque historic centre, one of the world's oldest universities and notable buildings including the Scrovegni Chapel, which houses a renowned cycle of frescoes by Giotto that is recognised as a masterpiece of western art.

FIND OUT MORE at www.bestofbergamo.com and www.bestofpadua.co.uk

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