Anacapri is the other Capri: the high, rural, silent one, reached for centuries only by the Phoenician Steps cut into the rock. Axel Munthe told it to the world in "The Story of San Michele": his white villa among cypresses, with ancient marbles and a sphinx gazing over the gulf, is among Europe's most visited house-museums.
The chairlift climbs in twelve minutes to Monte Solaro, the island's highest point; in the church of San Michele you walk along an eighteenth-century majolica floor depicting the Earthly Paradise. And the Blue Grotto, the prodigy of light everyone links to Capri, lies right here, in Anacapri's waters.
Near Anacapri
The closest destinations covered by our editors, with straight-line distance.
