Chiostro di San Francesco Sorrento

Warm honey light fills the courtyard of the Chiostro di San Francesco, viewed from beneath a shaded arcade whose interlaced Gothic arches rise in elegant clusters of pale warm stone. Gnarled trees cast dappled shadows across the garden's low trimmed hedges, while rounded arches along the opposite walk catch the full weight of the southern sun. Vivid magenta blooms cascade over the upper walls, a shock of hot color against the bleached white facade, and a slender bell tower punctuates a slice of clear turquoise sky above it all. The palette moves from deep amber and mossy green in the foreground to soft gold and sky blue at the center, drawing the eye gently inward toward the light.