Anacapri - Capri Island

Anacapri (NA)

Capri Island - Campania (Italy)

The other town of the island is Anacapri, a more sober and collected center of Capri, with charming streets, white houses surrounded by greenery, quiet elegant hotels.
The most significant monument is the church of San Michele, built in the 700 designed by Domenico Antonio Vaccaro: beautiful tiled floor.
Here stands the famous Villa San Michele, built on Roman ruins by Axel Munthe, Swedish physician and author who lived for more than half a century on the island.
The writer set his novel Story of San Michele, and promoting the world the myth of Capri.
The house, elegant and original, eighteenth-century home furnishings, art and Roman ruins.
The garden that surrounds it is a rare beauty.
Anacapri the ruins of another imperial villa, Damecuta.
Leave the chair lift from Anacapri and the trail to the summit of Monte Solaro (589 m), the highest point, which offers a breathtaking view.
A holiday to Capri is not really such a trip without the Blue Grotto, where the enchanted cave attracts visitors from all over the world.
It is reached by boat from Marina Grande or road from Anacapri: in both cases, near the cave transfer to small boats can enter the narrow cave in access.
Already known by the Romans and rediscovered in 800, has its charming atmosphere in a geological phenomenon that caused the lowering of twenty yards, bringing the entrance almost under the sea level.
Filtered water, light creates a unique color shades: a deep blue which is a silvery reflections everything inside.
Not very large - 54 m long, 14 wide, 30 high - the cave extends inward to the Hall of Columns, with stalactites.
Endowed with charming coves and cliffs powerful, Capri offers beautiful seaside resorts perched on the rocks and some access to the sea by sandy beaches.
Plants of the coast are the Faraglioni (walking distance from Tragara with a beautiful descent in the pine forest), Anacapri and the Blue Grotto and the Lighthouse.
Sandy beaches are at Marina Grande, Marina Piccola and the Bagni di Tiberio.
The best way to enjoy the sea of Capri and the incomparable scenery of its coastline is a rocky boat ride.