Sorrento – Jaguar

Sorrento is not a place you pass through, and the coast road toward Positano is the clearest proof of that: hairpin after hairpin cut into rock, the Tyrrhenian Sea dropping away on one side and pastel villages clinging to the cliffs on the other. It asks for a car with real composure at low speed and real nerve at every bend. The town itself holds its ground on a limestone cliff two hundred feet above the Bay of Naples, lemon groves climbing the terraces behind it and Capri sitting hazy on the water below. Two centuries of practice have perfected the art of arrival here: funiculars descending to the marina, church bells marking the hour over piazzas thick with the scent of citrus.

Jaguar has always split the difference between athletic and tailored, warm-blooded under a very English restraint. Rent or hire a Jaguar with Zeus Prestige and it arrives exactly as booked, ready for the coast road toward Positano, clifftop gardens at the Excelsior Vittoria just up the hill. Rent or hire your sports car with Zeus Prestige in Sorrento, delivered exactly as booked.

At the Grand Hotel Excelsior Vittoria, clifftop gardens have hosted everyone from European royalty to Enrico Caruso, and the terrace still does its best work at dusk, when the bay turns copper and Vesuvius sits quiet on the horizon.

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