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About ANACAPRI

Capri is an island of calcareous rock. The coast, with its dolomite walls plunging down into the sea in many places, is bored with wonderful caves and surrounded by rocks of fantastic shapes. Monte Tiberio (334m.) to the east and Monte Solaro (589m.) to the west, are the two main massives of the island, between which, in a saddle, with Marina Grande to the north and Marina Piccola to the south, lies the township of Capri (l38m.). The other inhabited centre is Anacapri (286 m.), is situated in the ample green expanse to the west of Monte Solaro. The island, inhabited since paleolithic times, was Greek and then Roman, Caeser Augustus visiting it in 29 A.D. was so struck by its incomparable beauty that he bought it from the city of Naples in exchange for the nearby, but larger and richer, island of Ischia. His successor, Tiberius, lived there from 27 to 37 A.D., building twelve villas dedicated to the various divinities of Olympus and governing the Roman Empire from the most imposing Villa Jovis.  Other Emperors stayed on Capri after Tiberius, and until the end of the 4-th century it was visited and dwelt upon by the Roman nobility. The island once more fell under the Dukedom of Naples. and beginning from the 6th century to the 7th it suffered many invasions by the Saracens, domination by the Longobards, Normans, Angevins, Aragonese. Spaniards, Austrians, French and English. From 1800 there was a flow of artists, writers and poets into the island among the many attracted by the island’s harmonious beauty. Anacapri is situated in the high part of the island and is joined to Capri by a beautiful panoramic roadway (40 minutes on foot and 10 in a motor car), which offers a matchless view of the Bay of Naples from the peninsula of Sorrento to the island of Ischia. At the Chapel of S. Antonio is the road of Scala Fenicia, cut in rock, that in old times was the only way from Anacapri to Marina Grande. From the Piazza della Vittoria a chairlift takes one in 12 minutes to Monte Solaro the highest point of the island (589m.). From there one can return to Anacapri on foot, in 50 minutes. passing the delightful valley of` Santa Maria a Cetrella, where an enchanting pathway leads to via Capodimonte in Anacapri. Here one will find the famous Villa of San Michele, built by the Swedish doctor and writer Axel Munthe.