Isle of Capri - Isola di Capri

Isle of Capri

State	Italy
Region	Campania
Capital	Naples
Surface	10.4 km²
Inhabitants	14.117 (2011)

Capri is an island in the gulf of Naples.

To know

When to go

The ideal time to visit the island is summer, when the climate allows tourists to fully appreciate the seaside resort.

Spoken languages

In addition to the national language, the Neapolitan language is spoken, which is part of the languages ofItaly southern.

Territories and tourist destinations

Island of Capri: full screen map.

Urban centers

The territory of the island of Capri is divided into two municipalities:

Anacapri - It is mainly mountainous, and rises on the west side of the island.
Capri - It is the more famous municipality of the two, and gives the island its name. Located on the easternmost part, it is the main tourist destination of Capri, as well as the seat of the island's port.

How to get

By plane

The nearest airport is Naples-Capodichino (NAP), located on the mainland 4.5 km from the center of Naples.

On boat

The island can be reached by ship starting from Naples, Amalfi is Sorrento.

How to get around

Most of the roads in both municipalities are closed to traffic, so many places of interest can only be reached on foot.

By public transport

Given the size of the island, Capri is excellently visited by bus and with the famous and characteristic funicular.

By taxi

Even if they are particularly expensive, taxis are certainly the most comfortable way to get around

By car

The car is a very discouraged vehicle for the island, used almost exclusively by inhabitants and hoteliers.

What see

Blue Cave

The Faraglioni

Gardens of Augustus

40.56055614.2047221 Blue Cave (10 minutes by boat from Marina Grande. The best time to enjoy the reflections is from 12 to 14), ☎ 39 081 8375646. 14 €. 9-17. Stay inside 5 minutes. The cave has an opening partially submerged by the sea, from which the external light filters which - in this way - creates an intense blue shade of color, which represents the peculiar characteristic of the cave. The blue color of the cave is due to the presence of the underwater threshold (which opens exactly under the entrance) through which the light penetrates. The underwater window acts as a filter, absorbing the red colors and letting the blue ones pass through. Curious to note that, due to the phenomenon of total reflection, the threshold fails to illuminate the cave if the sea is completely calm - so there is a need for a movement of the water, however minimal this may be.
40.54055614.2527782 Faraglioni. They are three rocky peaks (Di Terra, di Mezzo, di Fuori) positioned to the south-east of the homonymous island, famous all over the world thanks to the suggestive and historical panorama offered by the gardens of Augustus.
40.54750314.2433893 Gardens of Augustus (From the Piazzetta of Capri, take via Vittorio Emanuele, Via Federico Serena and then via Matteotti.). From Easter to early November: € 1. 9-19,30. They are a city park in Capri. They were started by Friedrich Alfred Krupp, the German steel industrialist who at the beginning of the 20th century bought some properties on the island, with the intention - which was not realized - to build a villa there. Known as Krupp gardens until 1918, after the First World War they were renamed gardens of Augustus by the municipal administration, in honor of the first Roman emperor. They constitute a real botanical garden that houses various specimens of the island's flora, with ornamental and non-ornamental plants. The botanical beauties are associated with a very wide panorama of the main landscape beauties of the island; from them, in fact, it is possible to obtain a 180-degree panoramic view of the island of Capri: in fact from them it is possible to see Mount Solaro, the bay of Marina Piccola, via Krupp and the famous Faraglioni.
40.55833314.2622224 Villa Jovis. 2 €. 11-15. Closed on Tuesdays in the first half of the month and Sundays in the second half of the month.. Villa Jovis is known to have been both the residence of the Roman emperor Tiberius Julius Caesar Augustus and the government palace of Rome in the period it dates back to between 26 and 37 AD. Discovered a few centuries ago by archaeologists Norbert Hadrawa and Amedeo Maiuri, villa Jovis has aroused great interest among scholars from all over the world especially for its role played during the stay of the ancient Romans on the island of Capri. It is located in a completely strategic position, on Mount Tiberio, the eastern promontory of the island, 334 meters above sea level. From its sublime position you can see the island of Ischia, Procida, the gulf of Naples, the Sorrento peninsula, then the gulf of Salerno up to the lands of Cilento. It is located in the eastern part of the island of Capri.
40.55722214.2255 Villa San Michele, Viale Axel Munthe 34 - Anacapri, ☎ 39 081 8371401, fax: 39 081 8373279. 8 €. April - October, every day 9 am - 6 pm. It is a house located in the municipality of Anacapri. The villa takes its name from a small chapel that stood in medieval times at the end of the Phoenician staircase in the territory of Anacapri. It is owned by a Swedish foundation that transformed it into a museum where, among other things, evocative classical chamber music concerts take place in the summer. Together with the Blue Grotto it is the most visited place in Capri.