Grotta Azzurra
Anacapri
FamousIn the water & diving
The story
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.
Access
€ 19 + rowing boat ~12-14; closed in rough seas
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Nature & hikingMonte 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.
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Villa 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.
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In the water & divingParco Sommerso di Baia
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A Roman city swallowed by the sea through bradyseism: mosaics, columns and statues visited from a glass-bottomed boat or with a mask.
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Grotta Bianca
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Pale limestone walls in a two-chambered cavity hollowed out by the sea, once a shelter for boats and a hiding place from pirate raids.
In the water & divingVerde
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The water turns emerald green where light filters in through a submerged opening, and at the far end a small pebble beach lies hidden.
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Meravigliosa
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A stairway carved into the rock leads to a vault thick with stalactites and stalagmites, suspended above the Grotta Bianca and the island's thousand-year-old strata.
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Punta Pizzaco e Solchiaro (snorkeling)
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On the southern side, between the cliffs of Solchiaro and the walls of Pizzaco, clear water and rocky seabeds invite you to swim with a mask, far from the crowds.
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Parco Sommerso di Aenaria
baia di Cartaromana
Beneath the bay of Cartaromana lie the remains of the ancient Roman port of Aenaria: you explore them from a glass-bottomed boat or with a mask, among amphorae and submerged structures.