Grand Hotel Cocumella is set within citrus gardens on Sorrento’s cliff edge, occupying a former 16th-century Jesuit monastery above the Bay of Naples. Vaulted rooms, tiled floors and antique details give the interiors a quietly historic character, while many rooms and suites overlook the gardens or sea. A broad swimming pool sits among the trees, joined by a tennis court and a private beach reached below the cliffs. Scintilla restaurant uses the garden as its backdrop, and the hotel’s own sailing boat departs from the coast, beneath terraces shaded by palms and stone walls.