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Three Days in and around Capri Essentials
Stunningly beautiful views and spectacular sights are everywhere GETTING THERE
here, demanding to be admired from land, sea, and mountaintop. Fast hydrofoils and ferries from Naples and
Sorrento run many times a day all year round.
DAY ONE Take a morning boat trip around the island to see the cliffs
Once there, a funicular climbs to the town
and fantastic rock formations such as the Faraglioni rock stacks. If
itself, and orange buses make the trip to
the tide is right, boatmen will row you into the splendid recesses of
Anacapri and around the island.
the Blue Grotto. An easy afternoon walk from Capri town leads to
WHERE TO STAY
Villa Jovis, former vacation home of the Roman emperor Tiberius.
Pensione La Tosca (moderate) is a peaceful,
DAY TWO From Anacapri take the dizzying chairlift up Monte welcoming little hotel with a beautiful terrace.
Solaro to the brilliant belvedere and café. Afterward, take the bus to www.latoscahotel.com
the landmark Faro lighthouse and enjoy a swim at the small beach. Villa Eva (moderate), just out of Anacapri, has
a pretty garden, swimming pool, and panoramic
DAY THREE Make a full-day boat trip to the mainland, to Sorrento
views from the terraces. www.villaeva.com
and around the peninsula to the spectacular Amalfi Coast. Here the
Hotel Tragara (expensive) is luxurious, with
pastel-colored houses of Positano cascade down the mountainside breathtaking views over the Faraglioni rock
to a beautiful bay. Surrounded by terraced lemon groves, Amalfi stacks. www.hoteltragara.com
nestles at sea level, its majestic black-and-white-checkered duomo
TOURIST INFORMATION
dominating narrow alleyways dating back to Norman and Arab times. Capri Harbor; +39 81 837 0686
Right The tempting tricolore of insalata caprese: ripe red tomatoes, pearly white mozzarella, and fresh green basil
Below The town of Anacapri is watched over by a statue of Caesar Augustus, first of the Roman emperors