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10 places
In the water & divingGrotta Azzurra
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You enter lying flat in a small rowing boat through a low cleft, and inside the water lights up in a luminous blue that seems to rise from the depths.
NatureMonte Solaro (seggiovia)
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The chairlift climbs in silence over vineyards and gardens to the island's highest peak, where the eye takes in the whole gulf.
◆ Sacred artEremo di Cetrella
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A small Marian hermitage tucked among the rocks below Monte Solaro, reached on foot through the scent of the scrub and the silence of the heights.
MuseumsVilla San Michele (Axel Munthe)
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The white house that Swedish doctor Axel Munthe built among ancient columns and pergolas, with its granite sphinx gazing out over the Gulf of Naples.
◆ History & archaeologyCasa Rossa
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The Pompeian-red residence an American colonel wanted in Moorish style, today the keeper of the Roman statues recovered from the waters of the Grotta Azzurra.
Sacred artChiesa di San Michele (pavimento maiolicato)
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A majolica floor tells of Adam and Eve driven out of the Garden of Eden, to be admired from above to take in the full sweep of its eighteenth-century colours.
◆ History & archaeologyVilla Damecuta
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The remains of an imperial Roman villa on a sheer promontory, among olive trees and a medieval tower, with the gaze stretching toward Ischia.
Views & panoramasFaro di Punta Carena
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At the western tip of Capri, among flat rocks where you dive into the blue, the lighthouse marks one of the island's most intense and long-awaited sunsets.
- ◆ Nature
Sentiero dei Fortini
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A path along the western coast linking the small Napoleonic-era forts, through Mediterranean scrub, wild coves and the sound of the waves.
- ◆ Views & panoramas
Belvedere della Migliera
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At the end of the Migliera walk, among vegetable plots and vineyards, the terrace opens onto the Punta Carena lighthouse and the vertical drop of Monte Solaro.