Excursions and Island Tour of CAPRI
Villa San Michele
It was built by Swedish physician and writer Axel Munthe, author of the famous novel The Story of San Michele. The villa was built by transforming a simple rustic home and an ancient chapel dedicated to St. Michele initially built on the ruins of the Augustan age, which testify the presence of a luxurious residence.
It is an imposing building of great stylistic freedom, surrounded by a massive and well-maintained garden. It is owned by the Swedish Foundation Munthe and it is open to the public. Moreover it is conserved in a suggestive atmosphere with many rustic and antique furniture and numerous pieces of excavation.
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Villa Jovis
This villa is the largest monument of the island built during Tiberius Empire. Placed on top of Mount Tiberio, at 354 meters above sea level, in an exceptional position, it was the main house of Emperor Tiberius, and its design reflects the rigorous personality of the Emperor. It is divided into a several different floors terraced situated all along the hill with a distance of 40 meters one from another.
The reason why the villa was built was the need for water. Indeed the architects were forced to build a complex system of canals to pick the rain water up and save it for the emergencies. The rooms of the villa are narrow and small and over the years the villa has been destroyed by the weather.
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Charterhouse of San Giacomo
The Charterhouse of San Giacomo is a marvellous monument of Capri-style architecture and was built in the 14th century by Count Giacomo Arcucci, adviser to the queen of Naples, Joan I of Anjou. During the 17th century, the Charterhouse was extended and restored with Baroque basics. The Charterhouse offers two beautiful cloisters in different dimensions. Today it is possible to visit the museum, the library and the school in the charterhouse. You can enter the monument taking an avenue where at the end of it you can find another entrance with a tower. Beside the tower there is the porch of the Church. The Charterhouse of San Giacomo is structured in three blocks of buildings: outside there is the convent with pharmacy and the church for women, some steps ahead there is the a building for monks with the stables and laboratories where they used to work; and finally another block with the cells around the Big Cloister and other areas around the Little Cloister.
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Church of San Costanzo
This is a very cosy church in Byzantine style dated back to the year 1000. It has taken its name from the Patron Saint of Capri, Costanzo. The church is few steps away from Marina Grande, surrounded by very attractive sites and tourist places.
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Villa Damecuta
Villa Damecuta is one of the twelve Imperial Roman villas located in Anacapri. Now there are few ruins left and it’s very difficult to determine whether it was inhabited only by Tiberius or also by Augustus. By analysing these ruins we can traced back to the structure of a long portico balcony, open toward the Gulf of Naples and 80 meters long, which ended with a large semicircular terrace. It is said that in 79 A.D. the villa was abandoned after the explosion of Vesuvius.
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Casa Rossa (Red House)
Casa Rossa, painted in Pompeian red, was built in more architectural styles with battlements and mullioned windows. Inside there is the structure of a square tower and a courtyard. The owner was the American Colonel John H. Cay Mackowen, arrived in Italy just after the American Civil War and settled in Anacapri until 1899. He followed the example of Axel Munthe: he gathered many archaeological ruins in his house.
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Castello Barbarossa
This delightful and romantic castle, whose ruins stand on the cliffs of Anacapri, in the middle of a relaxing Mediterranean maquis, took its name from the most terrible sacking in 1535 by the Algerian corsair Kair-ed-Din, the well-known Saracen pirate Barbarossa.
It is probably the largest fortification of the Byzantine age. It was built with material taken from Roman buildings.
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Villa Lysis
Villa Lysis, also known as Villa Fersen lies not far from the ruins of Villa Jovis. It was surrounded by vineyards and cypresses of a massive garden.
The residence was built in 1905 and initially was called The Gloriette but later took the name of Villa Lysis dedicated to Liside, disciple of Socrates and mentioned by Plato in his dialogues.
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