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Local tourist authority Lost and Found Azienda Autonoma Cura Soggiorno e Turismo Isola · 081 8386203 · · 081 8387220 di Capri CAPRI · Piazzetta 11 Post Offices www.capritourism.com · www.infocapri.mobi CAPRI · Via Roma, 50 · 081 9785211 081 8370424 · 8375308 · Fax 081 8370918 MARINA GRANDE · Via Prov.le M. Grande, 152 [email protected] 081 8377229 A B C D E F G Info point ANACAPRI · Viale De Tommaso, 8 · 081 8371015 CAPRI · · 081 8370686 Left Luggage Marina Grande-Harbour · 081 8370634 CAPRI · Via Acquaviva ANACAPRI · Via G. Orlandi 59 · 081 8371524 MARINA GRANDE · Via C. Colombo, 10 · 081 8374575 Town Hall Portering Service CAPRI · Piazza Umberto I, 9 · 081.838.6111 CO.FA.CA. · Piazza Martiri d’Ungheria · 081 8370179 Grotta Azzurra Punta ANACAPRI · Via Caprile, 30 · 081 8387111 Cooperativa Portuali Capresi del Capo Medical Assistance Via Marina Grande, 270 · 081 8370896 Punta dell’Arcera Hospital “G. Capilupi” · Via Provinciale, 2 Ferry Companies Piazza Marinai d’Italia Grotta 081 838 1205 Aliscafi SNAV · 081 8377577 Bagni della Ricotta di Tiberio Monte Tiberio Ambulance ·118 · 081 8370700 335 Out-of-hours doctor Villa Fersen Consorzio Linee Marittime Partenopee Grotta CAPRI · Piazza Umberto I, 9 · 081 8375716/8381238 081 8370819/8376995 v Damecuta Palazzo del Bove Marino o i p Chiesa a a Mare a ANACAPRI · Via Caprile, 30 · 081 8381240 Aliscafi Alilauro Gruson · 081 8370819/8376995 G C S. Maria r DAMECUTA o o Anacapri L del Soccorso Navigazione Libera del Golfo · 081 8370819 t vi a a Local Police t Ve i a t i e v Neapolis · 081 8377577 A via La F d Marina Grande Marina abbri r 286 n Cappella di Police · Pubblica Sicurezza z ca ino a z l Porto di Caterola u r Sant’Antonio Porto Metrò del Mare · 199600700 Punta di Miglio r O LO CAPO Salto Via Roma, 70 · 081 8374211 · Emergency · 113 r Commerciale a ia ia v Turistico o Cable-car Marina Grande-Capri vi ic i i di Tiberio a G v Villa en a r Police · Carabinieri Fortino rot rra piazza F piazza e ta Azzu v ia M b SIPPIC Funicolare di Capri S.r.l. · 081 8370420 t ia L San Michele v Chiesa Vittoria i CAPRI · Via Provinciale Marina Grande, 42 di Orrico r o Po Casa Rossa Vittoria scala a CESINA T a zzo piazza r a v di S.Costanzo i cable-car i Bus Companies e Fenicia n v Parco 081 8370000 rs San Nicola i a a nd Castello Ruocco La Chiesa la G G. Monte Astarita A.T.C. · Via Acquaviva 2, Capri · 081 8370420 V Or Barbarossa ra on ANACAPRI · Via Caprile · 081 8371011 ign S.Michele n via D San Michele a ia o d Staiano Autotrasporti · Via Filietto, 9 · Anacapri v s v e Police · Guardia di Finanza i e a chairlift a ff m a 081 8372422 Vi o v et Via Provinciale Marina Grande, 256 · 081 8370604 gn B piazza i m ia on a ia d To Capri M v n e P Grotta Meravigliosa Taxi Passo della Capra vi Diaz r a a a D o i Customs Authority T l o via Marucella c 1 u e r a v or r l v o a a b MONETA l CAPRI · P.zza Martiri d‘Ungheria · 081 8370543 O i i le n MARINA GRANDE · 081 8376728 Cala del Lupinaro via v o - 142 Chiesa P a ANGINOLA c c ag i S l a iar v i o ANACAPRI · P.zza Vittoria · 081 8371175 o a r i e l di San Michele r Fire Brigade t e e

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d F del Scoglio Antico porto Scoglio Arco Naturale G2 Giardini di Augusto E2 o ova Monte Solaro r u delle Sirene di Tragara e Sentiero N MIGLIERA del Monacone B Giuseppe Orlandi, Via C1 i 589 t ia n dei Fortini V Belvedere Cannone E2 Grotta Azzurra, Via B1 e S Belvedere di Tragara F2 Grotta dell’Arsenale E2 Punta Belvedere Migliera B3 Grotta di Matermania G2 del Pino Monte Punto C K Fortino Cocuzzo Capri 545 di Mulo Camerelle, Via E2 F2 , Via E2 2 di Pino Fortino del Tombosiello Cannula, Via B2 L Azienda Autonoma Cala Cala Ventroso Torre Belevedere Cappella di S. Antonio D1 La Fabbrica, Via B1 Cura Soggiorno e Turismo del Tombosiello della Guardia Grotta dei Santi Migliera Casa Rossa C1 La Vigna, Traversa B1 Isola di Capri 292 D1 Le Botteghe, Via E2 Cala del Limmo ro a Cala Marmolata l F Castello, Via E2 Lo Capo, Via G1 de Punta Ventroso LIMMOva Punta Certosa Lo Pozzo, Via B1 C1 uo Cala N Punta Marmolata di San Giacomo E2 F2 M R ia Cala Spravata San Costanzo V del Tuono Certosa, Via E2 Marina Grande, Via E1 E2 Roma, via E2 Chiesa di San Costanzo D1 Marina Piccola, Via D2 E2 S Punta Carena Chiesa di San Michele F2 Marucella, Via E2 San Nicola, Piazza C1 Faro Punta Carena Chiesa di San Michele C1 Matteotti, Viale E2 Scala Fenicia D1 Chiesa S. Maria Migliera, Via B2 C2 Sopramonte, Via E2 F2 a Cetrella D2 Moneta, Via F1 T Chiesa S. Maria Monte Cappello D2 Tiberio, Via F1 F2 G1 del Soccorso G1 Monte Cocuzzo C2 Torre della Guardia B3 Chiesa S. Sofia C1 Monte S. Maria D2 Torre di Materita B2 Croce, Via F2 Monte San Michele F1 Torre Saracena E2 D Monte Solaro C2 Tuoro, Via B1 B2 De Tommaso, Viale C1 Monte Solaro, Via C1 C2 U Panoramic spots Diaz, Piazza C1 Monte Tiberio G1 Umberto I Don Giobbe Ruocco Monte Tuoro F2 Piazza (piazzetta) E2 Info point C1, E1, E2 Hospital E2 Ferry Companies E1 Cable-car E1, E2 Via E1 Mulo, Via E2 V N Bathing areas E N Veterino, Via B1 3 Bus C1, C2, E1, E2 Post Offices E2, C2 Chair lift Monte Solaro C1 Taxi E1, C1, E2 Ex Cattedrale Nuova del Faro, Via B2 C2 Via Monte Solaro C1 S. Stefano E2 P Via Pizzolungo F2 Graphic Design Marine grottoes Matilde Lepore F Pagliaro, Via C2 Vigna, Via B1 O E Faraglioni F2 D1 Villa Damecuta A1 Editor Costanzo Ruocco Fenicia, Via D1 Parco Astarita G1 Villa Jovis G1 Fortino del Tombosiello A2 Passo della Capra A2 Villa Lysis G1 To see Texts S Tullia G. Rizzotti Fortino di Mesola A2 Pizzolungo, Via F2 G2 Villa Malaparte G2 Fortino di Orrico A1 Provinciale Anacapri, Via D1 D2 D1 Print Cangiano Grafica Fortino di Pino A2 Punta Carena A3 Vittoria, Piazza Anacapri C1 Punta dell’Arcera A1 Vittoria, Piazza Capri E1 . Ruocco Don G via C D G 2 · Capri · Arco Naturalea · Grotta di Matermania · v t i a Pizzolungo · eTragara

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L main cloister, a watchtower, the prior’s quarters and the stern, fourteenth-century buildings near the Piazzetta. the heart of Capri. Route: On foot, from the Piazzetta, take orlovad Arco Naturale eng a Botteghe via Fu o via i e Croc piazza a L e clock tower. The unusual cusping of the stone echoes the Palazzo Arcucci is the most ancient and holds the Via Le Botteghe up to Quadrivio della Croce, and then Via v vi v Umberto I v v wrought-iron motifs of traditionalia Capri wells. naturalistic-archaeological Museum with a concert and Matermania (90 minutes). Cala di Matermania v ia ia MATERMANIA ia P Route: Walk from the Piazzetta down Via Emanuele, then lecture hall with its wonderful cross vaults. There is a Library Lo P uaviva Chiesa V .R C· D 2 · Anacapri · Monte Solaro · Cetrella ala q . . M zzo Ac E G Via F. Serena and Via Certosa (10 minutes). in Palazzo Ferrace with an outstanding range of The imposing summit of Monte Solaro offers, at 589 metres,

via S.Stefano m i u a a Capri Viale Certosa, 40 +39 081 837 6218 documentation on all aspects of Capri. spectacular views over the whole island, the Bay of , n l t i e via Li Camp u a Opening times 9.00 · 14.00 r Capri Piazzetta Ignazio Cerio 5 the Bay of Salerno and out towards . A chairlift will i e Roma o amere n m via n l a C lle i Closed Mondays, Sundays 9.00 · 13.00 +39 081 837 6681 www. centrocaprense.it i e vi Bagni take you to the summit, or you can walk up the mountain. m a i v Openingn times Coming back down on foot is easier, though it will still take C . i G 1 · Villa Jovis Emperor designed this, his main a ia S . v tuesday · wednesday · friday · saturday 10.00 · 13.00 you about an hour or so, and longer if you take the detour P villa, as palace, fortress and barracks, on a precipice at the i C di Tiberio a a thursday · 15.00 · 19.00 closed sunday · monday i e top of a cliff 334 metres above sea level. It was excavated to the hermitage of Cetrella, which we recommend. It dates v F r .S i back to the 14th century and was founded by Carthusian o by between 1932 and 1935. The architecture E 2 · Capri · The Giardini di Augusto and vi e a r D e emphasizes the spectacular natural scenery, with steps You can reach the Giardini di Augusto in a few minutes from monks. There is poetry in the harmonious interplay of its .B n i vaults and in its splendid isolation. Its name apparently ra a via C. di Teste rising level after level up to the emperor's private quarters. the Piazzetta. Once there you will enjoy spectacular views go The view from the ambulatio of the imperial loggia over the Faraglioni and Marina Piccola and up towards Monte derives from the aromaticGrotta erba cetra (melissa); the mountain o Cert l a os l vi a dominates the whole Bay of Naples. Four large cisterns Tuoro and Cesina. This part of the island was once known as is a treasure trove of important botanical rarities. Before you e Anacapri t s are at the heart of the structure and around them you Fondo Certosa, and was later acquired by the German get to the hermitage, you will come across what was once a i Palazzo t di Matermania C t find the formal reception area, the thermal baths, the industrialist Friedrich . Just beyond is the path the house of the Scottish writer . It has a o i e recently been restored by the Amici di Cetrella and is now a v t living quarters and the kitchens, with outlying gardens that bears his name, Via Krupp, which he built in 1902. It winds Giardini t a Mare a and woods with nymphaeums and exedras. From 27 AD its way down to Marina Piccola, and shows, in the words of the centre for the study of local flora and fauna, with a library di Augusto M Certosa to 37 AD, Tiberius ruled the from here. The historian Roberto Pane that “even a path can be a work of art”. and a garden containing a small collection of local species le Grotta di Massullo Via Krupp a di S.Giacomo fleet maintained communications with Rome, and the Route: From the Piazzetta take Via V.Emanuele and then Via (opening times variable +39 081 837 1157 to check). vi lighthouse was used to send signals across the water. F. Serena. Turn right at the bottom. Route: Take the chairlift from Piazza Vittoria in Anacapri (12 Route: Walk from the Piazzetta along Via Le Botteghe, minutes), or walk up the mountain (60 minutes) using Via A 1 · Villa Imperiale di Damecuta then Via Fuorlovado, Via Crocevia and Tragara Via Tiberio (40 minutes). Capodimonte, Via Monte Solaro and then following the path. This is the site of yet another large Roman villa, with service Capri Viale Amedeo Maiuri +39 081 8374549 Monte Tuoro Punta MassulloMarina Grande rina Piccol Cappellaareas, cisterns di and quarters for servants and the imperial C1 · Chiesa di San Michele a Opening times 9.00 · to an hour before sunset a v retinue dotted in the grounds. The imperial residence perched The church is most famous for its splendid majolica floor i Certosa M a covering266 the whole area under the octagonal dome and the Porto a p V C 1 · Casa Rossa Sant’Antoniopanoramically on the brink of the cliff of the plateau, i i i nave. The Neapolitan artist Leonardo Chiaiese created this Villa p g The house owes its name to the red colour of its walls, reminiscent of the formal reception areas of Villa Jovis, both v u n d nthe r o n el Mu chosen by Colonel J. C. Mackowen, an American, who built semicircular in shape with a long ambulatio leading to the masterpiece in 1761. The floor is left clear of pews so that Commerciale ia K l la die Ax San Giacomo v a al r vi it between 1876 and 1899 around Torre Aragonese, a 16th emperor's private quarters. The villa could once be reached the scene of the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden O te a . on of Eden can be appreciatedi in all its detail: the flowers, theMalapartev m century stone fort. According to local tradition, the menfolk from the jetty at Gradelle via Villa di Gradola above the Blue G di Villa ic po plants and the animals,n including mythical ones such as a i piazza Grottaa a of Anacapri used to lock their women away in the fort when Grotto. In medieval times, a watchtower was added to warn Anacapri i C e a v via San Michele unicorn. TheF altars are also worthy of attention: the lapislazuli they went to work across the water at the Arsenale di Napoli. of Saracen incursions. Amedeo Maiuri's archaeologicalzo digs,l a z uofin the gHigh oAltar, and the wooden side altars painted to M dell’Arsenalepiazza The somewhat eclectic style of the building includes initiated in 1937, restored the site to its presenti condition. v Chiesa Vittoria scala P imitate marble. Vittoria archaeological items found at Gradola. It currently houses Route: Take the Grotta Azzurra bus from Anacapri and get i Scoglio a a d i Route: Walk from Piazza Vittoria in Anacapri down the rlan a permanent exhibition of paintings depicting views of the off at the Damecuta stop (10 minutes)v or walk down along r . O dipedestrian S.Costanzo street, Via G. Orlandi, then turn right down to i ia G island from the 19th and 20th centuries. Feniciathe road that leads to the (30 minutes). n Torre SaracenaCasa v Unghia Marina Route: On foot from Piazza Vittoria in Anacapri (5 minutes). Anacapri Viale Amedeo Maiuri tel. +39 081 8374549 Piazza San Nicola (5 minutes). +39 081 837 2396 funicolare a piazza Rossa Anacapri Via Giuseppe Orlandi Opening times 9.00 · to an hour before sunset Opening times November · March 9.30 ·15.00 via Filietto chairlift Belvedere uocco S. Nicola +39 081 838 2193 April · October 9.00 · 19.00 G . R D 1 · 's Villa San Michele G B 1 · The Blue Grotto di TragaraIt stands proud on the cliff at the top of the Scala Fenicia. It A 1·2·3 · Anacapri · Sentiero dei Fortini r n This long walk linking the island's defensive emplacements a Do Chiesa o The most famous of the grottos, inexorably linked to the derives from one man's dream: Axel Munthe, travelling here n a Marina Piccolas i (fortini) along its western coastline is to be appreciated for v S. Michele a Blue Island in name and in fame. The complex interplay in his youth in 1876, noticed a peasant cottage and the ruins d m of sunlight and water casts refracted blue light onto the of the chapel of San Michele on this spot, and made it hisAnticoits natural beauty, its artporto and the historical insights it offers. Scoglio e m It wanders through an extraordinary wild landscape carved o walls and the vault, and opalescent reflections from the "place of soul". Many years went by before he was able to buy T o o r piazza l bed of white sand give a silvery sheen to anyone swimming it and restore it. Today, a large terraced gardenv with colonnades by the wind and the sea. The defensive emplacements of o u g i di Tragara c a Orrico, Mesola and Pino perch on three of its promontories, del Monacone Diaz n s in its waters. It may have been a sacred place in ancient and loggias link the house with the renovated chapel. It houses a o r o e r P linked by a winding trail with spectacular views that goes d p times, and was certainly a Roman nymphaeum: two statues archaeological items of local interest, artworks, an enigmatic e D a C a l r from Punta dell'Arcera near the Blue Grotto to the lighthouse o found in the grotto are now in the National Museum of sphinx and what remains of a cubiculum. It is now the property a C chairlift o i e l S v a (faro) at Punta Carena. The trail meanders through flora ia i Naples. It was feared by fishermen in times past, when it of the Swedish State. This villa-museum is open to visitorsv every v e v t was known as Grotta Gradola and reputed to be haunted. day and you can also enjoy summer concerts. i that is found only here and in a few other places, clinging f i v ia n n via Marucella u d C a o Its rediscovery in 1826 by the German painters August Route: Walk along Viale Axel Munthe from Piazza Vittoria in to the rocks and the cliffs, then descends to the cobalt blue n te n a n c l a M waters only to turn back up again into the Mediterranean r Kopisch and Ernst Fries, assisted by the local fisherman Anacapri (5 minutes). i O a i c i scrub. Scuba divers know good places here from which to . known as 'o Riccio, and its subsequent rechristening as Anacapri Viale Axel Munthe a v ANGINOLA o G the Blue Grotto, marked the onset of the island's tourist + 39 081 837 1401 · www.villasanmichele.eu l embark on their encounters with the deep blue underwater a via i eworld. When the trail was restored in 1998, on the initiative l Pagli v era. Route: You can catch a boat to the Blue Grotto from Opening times a aro of the Local Tourist Authority, ceramic tiles, the work of the the harbour, Marina Grande, between 9am and an hour January · FebruaryFaraglioni 9.00 ·15.30 A r via C artist Sergio Rubino, were strategically placed along the e . Ferraro before sunset. Then small rowing boats will take you into March 9.00 ·16.30, April 9.00 · 17.00 n the grotto. From Anacapri, you can reach the Blue Grotto May · September 9.00 ·18.00 October 9.00 ·17.00 route toa illustrate the area's nature and history, creating the world's first open air ecomuseum. a on foot (50 minutes) along Via Pagliaro, Via Tuoro and November · December 9.00 ·15.30 r c e l e Via Grotta Azzurra, by taxi (10 minutes) or by bus (15 Route: Takea a bus from Anacapri to Faro or Grotta Azzurra i i r l g (10 mins), thenp 4 to 5 hours on foot, and a bus back up to e p minutes). v piazza i i d a Anacapri. r a an C M i Marina Gr a a i i Umberto I v v