Sant'Agata sui Due Golfi is a hill village in the comune of Massa Lubrense, on the saddle that divides the Gulf of Naples from the Gulf of Salerno — at 390 metres above sea level.
The name promises two gulfs. The village itself shows you neither: it is compact — a square, a church — and the houses block the view. You see both gulfs walking: the path from Colli di Fontanelle crosses the Pineta delle Tore, with one gulf on each side.
Two reasons to stop instead of driving through. Don Alfonso 1890, on Corso Sant'Agata where it was born: one Michelin star in the 2026 guide, creative southern Italian cooking, the Iaccarino family in the kitchen and front of house. And the walk from Colli di Fontanelle (4.2 km) through the Pineta delle Tore, where the name of the village finally makes sense: the Gulf of Salerno on one side, the Bay of Naples on the other.
Monte San Costanzo, another high walk →Everyone heading south passes through Sant'Agata, and the SITA network runs from here. Bus times change with the season and need checking on the day.
About twenty minutes from Sorrento along the Nastro Azzurro. From Nerano, twenty minutes uphill.
SITA buses from Sorrento to Sant'Agata are the backbone of transport in the southern peninsula. Connections for Termini, Nerano and Marina del Cantone leave from here. The timetable changes with the season — check before you travel.
If you don't have a car and you want to move between the trails and the beaches, Sant'Agata is the right base: the buses for Termini, Nerano and Marina del Cantone leave from here.
From Colli di Fontanelle to Sant'Agata: 4.2 km, +180 / −132 m, red waymarks. It crosses the Pineta delle Tore, with the Gulf of Salerno and Li Galli on one side and the Bay of Naples and Vesuvius on the other. Some parts of the pinewood are closed: follow the notices.
Monte San Costanzo, another high walk →A calm center — a square and the church of Santa Maria delle Grazie, which holds a seventeenth-century altar of polychrome marble, mother-of-pearl and hard stones, brought from the Girolamini fathers in Naples and bought in 1845 by the parish priest G.B. Casola. Its maker is uncertain: usually attributed to Dionisio Lazzari, though some sources credit Arcangelo Guglielmelli and Antonio Fontana. Sant'Agata also carries a gastronomic tradition surprising for so small a place: Don Alfonso 1890 was born here, on Corso Sant'Agata, and is still here — one Michelin star in the 2026 guide, with the Iaccarino family in the kitchen and front of house.
Where to eat on the coast →Punta Campanella and Termini to the west; Nerano and Marina del Cantone down toward the Gulf of Salerno; Massa Lubrense and the Marina della Lobra to the north; Monte San Costanzo, with its chapel of 1560.
Punta Campanella →SITA bus times shift with the season, and some parts of the Pineta delle Tore are closed: follow the notices on the ground. Check the official source before you set out, and do not rely on this page for opening hours.
Anyone heading to Nerano passes through. Anyone bound for Termini and Punta Campanella passes through. Anyone dropping down to Massa Lubrense passes through. It is the village you cross by car, watching the clock.
Stop, and you find a calm center, a church, and a base for getting around by bus that beats any resort on the coast.
Not from the square: the houses block the view. You see them on foot. The path from Colli di Fontanelle crosses the Pineta delle Tore, with the Gulf of Salerno and Li Galli on one side and the Bay of Naples and Vesuvius on the other.
About twenty minutes by car.
If you're after monuments, no. If you want a quiet base for buses, a walk between the two gulfs or dinner at Don Alfonso 1890, yes.
The name that matters is Don Alfonso 1890, on Corso Sant'Agata: one Michelin star in the 2026 guide, with the Iaccarino family in the kitchen and front of house.
No. It is on the Sorrento Peninsula, in the comune of Massa Lubrense.
Twenty minutes downhill by car, or by SITA bus.
SITA bus schedules change with the season — always check the official source before you set out. The village sits at 390 metres above sea level (Wikipedia). The altar in Santa Maria delle Grazie is confirmed as seventeenth-century, of polychrome marble, mother-of-pearl and hard stones, from the Girolamini in Naples; only its maker stays disputed, attributed to Dionisio Lazzari or to Arcangelo Guglielmelli and Antonio Fontana.