Capri
33 places
History & archaeologyVilla Jovis
Capri
On the highest, loneliest point of the island, the ruins of the villa from which Tiberius ruled the empire for ten years, among cisterns, terraces and the emptiness of the sea all around.
CastlesVilla Lysis (Fersen)
Capri
Built in 1905 by the poet Fersen and dedicated to love and to sorrow, an Art Nouveau villa among the pines, with a Latin inscription at the entrance and the opium room hidden below.
NatureArco Naturale
Capri
An arch of rock suspended among the holm oaks, sheer above the sea, all that remains of an ancient collapsed cave, at the end of a path above Matermania.
◆ NatureGrotta di Matermania
Capri
A great cave that the Romans turned into a nymphaeum, with niches and traces of stucco facing the dawn, perhaps consecrated to the Magna Mater from which it takes its name.
NatureGiardini di Augusto
Capri
Flowerbeds and stairways suspended over the blue, with the Faraglioni on one side and the white hairpin bends of Via Krupp plunging down on the other.
NatureVia Krupp
Capri
A stairway of white hairpin bends carved into the sheer rock, dropping from the Giardini di Augusto all the way to the turquoise sea of Marina Piccola.
Sacred artCertosa di San Giacomo
Capri
Silent cloisters and fourteenth-century walls of a charterhouse facing the sea, where time seems to have stopped among white arches and gardens.
In the water & divingGrotta Azzurra
Anacapri
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.
In the water & divingVerde
Capri
The water turns emerald green where light filters in through a submerged opening, and at the far end a small pebble beach lies hidden.
NatureMonte Solaro (seggiovia)
Anacapri
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
Anacapri
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)
Anacapri
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
Anacapri
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)
Anacapri
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.
Views & panoramasFaraglioni
Capri
The three rocks that symbolise the island, rising from the sea, one pierced by a natural arch beneath which boats pass for a good-luck kiss.
NatureScoglio del Monacone
Capri
A solitary rock just beyond the Faraglioni, isolated in the deep blue, sought out by those after a swim far from the crowds and the beaten routes.
◆ History & archaeologyGrotta delle Felci
Capri
A prehistoric cave on the southern slope, where excavations have yielded traces of Neolithic people, reached by a path through the ferns.
Views & panoramasFaro di Punta Carena
Anacapri (NA)
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.
- Views & panoramas
Salto di Tiberio
Capri
The sheer cliff beside Villa Jovis, from which legend says Tiberius had those who betrayed him thrown into the sea: three hundred metres of void beneath your feet.
- Nature
Pizzolungo
Capri
The path that runs along the hillside among the myrtle bushes, passing beneath Malaparte's house until it opens onto the Faraglioni seen from above.
- Views & panoramas
Belvedere di Tragara
Capri
At the end of the lane lined with villas and bougainvillea, the terrace where the Faraglioni line up perfectly, three rocks rising from the blue like the island's signature.
- ◆ Views & panoramas
Belvedere di Punta Cannone
Capri
Climbing through alleys and gardens beyond the Certosa, a rock balcony hanging over Marina Piccola, with the Faraglioni on the left and the wind arriving from two seas.
- ◆ Views & panoramas
Parco Astarita
Capri
Terraces looking out over the sea through Mediterranean scrub, where the gaze drifts slowly toward the Sorrento peninsula and the coast, far from the hurried pace of the town centre.
- Free beaches
Marina Piccola
Capri
The beach on the southern side where the sun lingers until evening, with the Faraglioni in the background and the rocks where legend has the sirens sing.
- Free beaches
Scoglio delle Sirene
Capri
The rock that divides the two beaches of Marina Piccola, where legend places the song of the sirens that tempted Ulysses along this coast.
- In the water & diving
Grotta Bianca
Capri
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 & diving
Meravigliosa
Capri
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.
- ◆ History & archaeology
Villa Damecuta
Anacapri
The remains of an imperial Roman villa on a sheer promontory, among olive trees and a medieval tower, with the gaze stretching toward Ischia.
- ◆ Nature
Sentiero dei Fortini
Anacapri
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
Anacapri
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.
- Free beaches
Bagni di Tiberio / Palazzo a Mare
Capri
A small bay reached by boat, where the submerged remains of the seaside villa that belonged to the emperor Tiberius surface in the shallow water.
- ◆ Street art
Capri: The Island of Art
Capri (NA)
Murals by Ozmo and Eron inspired by the island (Eron's 'Epic Fights').
- ◆ Hiking
Sentiero del Passetiello
Capri (NA)
The ancient mule track that once crossed the island from Capri to Anacapri climbs steeply among the holm oaks, until it suddenly opens onto the Faraglioni and Marina Piccola.