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Capri's rocks and caves have been overwhelming since the ancient Greeks colonised the island. It' s simple to see why Capris' splendour and ancient past has been perpetuated by authors and artist. Board a wood craft to visit the Azzurra Grotto, a cavern full of spectacular aquatic life.
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a city in the north of Italy. The Capri (usually in German; it is in Italian[?ka?pri]) is an island in the Tyrrhenian Sea off the Sorrento peninsula, on the southern side of the Gulf of Naples in the Campania area. Capri, the capital of the island, divides the name.
The island's most important characteristics are: the Marina Piccola (the small port), the Belvedere of Tragara (a high panorama promontory surrounded by villas), the cliffs of lime that rise above the ocean (the Faraglioni), the city of Anacapri, the Blue Grotto (Grotta Azzurra) and the remains of imperial mansions of Rome.
The Capri is part of the Campania Metropolitan City of Naples. Capri is a municipality and the island's principal city. There are two ports on the island, Marina Piccola and Marina Grande (the island's principal port). Its name Capri's origin is not clear; it could be attributed either to the old Greeks (ancient Greeks see the name" kapros" means "wild boar"), the first registered settlers to inhabit the island.
There have been found fossilized boar that believe the "kapros" ecology, while the Romans named the "goat island" Capri. Lastly, there is the chance that the name comes from an ancient expression for "rocky", although every historic island is controversial. Virgil says in his Aeneid that the island was settled by the Grecian tribe of Teleboi, who came from the Ionian Islands.
In antiquity there were two cities in Capri, which were later narrowed down to one. "Tacitus reports that there were twelve royal mansions in Capri. Augustus' follower Tiberius constructed a number of mansions in Capri, the most renowned of which is Villa Jovis, one of the best-preserved Italian villa complexes.
Tiberius finally settled in Capri in 27 AD and continued the kingdom from there until his demise in 37 AD. 182 A.D. Emperor Commodus exiled his sis Lucilla to Capri. Frederick IV of Naples in 1496 created the judicial and bureaucratic equality between the Capri and Anacapri communities. Pirates' attacks peaked under Charles V: the renowned Ottoman Admiralals Barbarossa Hayreddin Pasha and Turgut Reis conquered the island for the Ottoman Empire in 1535 and 1553 respectively.
Jean-Jacques Bouchard, a 19th cent. antique shop owner, was the first registered visitor to the island. Found in 1850, his journal is an important resource of information about Capri. Under Napoleon, Napoleonic occupation of Capri in January 1806. In May the British displaced the Macedonians and Capri became a mighty navy stronghold (a "Second Gibraltar"), but the construction programme did serious harm to the area.
In 1808 the French conquered Capri and stayed there until the end of the Napoleon period (1815), when Capri was given back to the Bourbon dynasty of Naples. Naturalist Ignazio Cerio cataloged the Capris wildlife in the nineteenth cent. The work of his father was followed by his father, writer and graduate Engineer Edwin Cerio, who published several works about Capri in the town.
Lady Gracie Fields also had a mansion and a place to eat on the island and is in there. She has a mansion on the island. In the second half of the nineteenth and eighteenth centuries, Capri became a favourite holiday destination for Europe's artisans, authors and other notables. Fascinated by Capri in France, Germany and England in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the blue grotto on the island of Capri was discovered by the famous author and famous artist August Kopisch, who described his sojourn on the island in 1826 and his (re-)discovery of the Blue Grotto.
Celebrities like John Singer Sargent and Frank Hyde remained on the island around the 1870s. In the 1880' the British artiste and explorer John Wood Shortridge bought a Lady Gracie Fields in Marina Piccola (later converted into a privately owned villa) and got to marry a Capri woman, Carmela Esposito.
It is reported that the only reference to him in a new volume, although partly imprecise, is in James Money's Capri: Island of Pleasure (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1986, p. 42). In his impressionist prelude Les Collines d'Anacapri (1910), Claude Debussy points to the island's hill.
The Lotus Eater (1945), a brief by Somerset Maugham, is set in Capri. Throughout history, the main character from Hendon, a part of London's Barnet district, comes to Capri on vacation and is thus bewitched by the place where he gives up his profession and chooses to stay there for the remainder of his free time.
From 1913 to 1920, the author Compton Mackenzie from Great Britain stayed there, with later visitors, and placed some of his works on the island (e.g. Vestal Fire, 1927). Capri was not only a refuge for authors and performers, but also a relatively secure place for homosexuals and gays to have a more open lives; a small core of them was drawn to stay there, which partly overlaps with the above creatives.
In 1910 Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen published the novel À clever Et le feu s' éteignit sur la mer about Capri and its inhabitants in the early twentieth ct., which caused a small outrage. Heel' s Capri trip became the theme of the fictionalized autobiography of Roger Peyrefitte, L'Exilé de Capri. Mackenzie' s novel Extraordinary Women (without reference to the homonymous dominant film), inspires a satire of the island's gay community, based on the scandals of the US artist Romaine Brooks (in the novel under the pen name Olimpia Leigh).
One of the most popular homosexual expatriates on the island was Norman Douglas; his novel Wind of 1917 is a sparsely fictionalized depiction of Capris inhabitants and tourists, and a number of his other works, both textbooks and brochures, cover the island, among them Capri (1930) and his latest work, A Footnote on Capri (1952).
Valerio Massimo Manfredi's last legion, a historic phantasy novel, takes place in part on the island of Capri, where Romulus is detained in Ravenna after an unsuccessful attempted escape by Aurelianus. In one of the mansions of Tiberius, Romulus finds the Julius Caesar dagger, which is unveiled at the end of the novel as the mythical Excalibur flick.
Part of the 2007 filming was shot on the island. In 1965 the popularly acclaimed vocalist Hervé Vilard achieved a great comeback. The mediterranean shrub, the Arboreal Euphorbia and the Ilex forest are located in Capri. Indigenous wildlife on the island includes quail, robin, falcon, woodcock, blackbird, gecko, rose gold fish, European congers, coffin and grouper.
You can reach Capri by sea or aeroplane from Naples, Sorrento, Positano or Amalfi and from the harbours of the Gulf of Naples and the Sorrento Peninsula. 2 ] Naples is serviced by two harbours, Mergellina and Molo Beverello. Coming from Naples the trip will take 80 min., the hull is 40 min.
The boat calls Marina Grande, from where the cable car goes to Capri. A chairlift leads from Anacapri to Monte Solaro, the highest point of the island. We also have a coach connection between the center of Capri and Marina Grande, Marina Piccola, Anacapri and other points.
The Capri is a partner: "Everyone happily in Capri." "Italy`s Isle of Pleasure, Capri." City & Country. The Amalfi Coast with Naples, Capri & Pompeii. Capri Island APP, Personalities, Romaine Brooks. Green on Capri. Capri Art 2011 - Festival of Diversity. The CapriartFilmfestival.com. Capri Tourism. Tourism Capri. "The Capri attraction - Capri event - Capri film festival - Capri concert - Capri festival - Capri - entertainment in Capri - Italy".
The Amalfi Coast with Naples, Capri & Pompeii. The Wikimedia Commons has a connection to Capri. Wiki voyage has a guidebook for Capri. Insider tips from the natives.