The island of Capri (10,4 sq. km.) is located in the southern part of the Bay of
Naples, Mount Solaro (589 m.) to the west is the main peak on the island. The coastline is dotted with countless caves and surrounded by reefs
whose shapes suggest fantastic creations. Inhabited since the paleolithic age, the island
later became Greek, and then Roman. After visiting Capri in 29 BC, Caesar Augustus was so
taken with the islands beauty that he bought it from the city of Naples, giving up the
nearby island of Ischia in return. From the fall of the Roman Empire (476 A.D.) until the
end of the Early Middle Ages (1000), Capri was under the control of the Dutchy of Naples.
The island was raided by the Saracens in the sixth and seventh centuries, and was
dominated in the years that followed by the Longobards, the Normans, the Angevins, the
Aragonese and the Spanish. The island’s cultural reawakening began in around 1800.
Attracted by the wonderful climate, the island’s location and its natural wonders,
the island was subjected to a peaceful invasion by the English, Americans and Germans.
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Marina Grande, the port of Capri.
Marina Grande, Capri.
Ischia e Procida seen from Capri.
La "Piazzetta", Piazza
Umberto I, Capri.
The Church of Santo Stefano, Capri.
Marina Grande.
Sunrise, monte Tiberio, Capri.
The whole Island of Capri as seen from
the sea. Mount Tiberio (334 m.), to the east (on the left in the picture), and Mount
Solaro (589 m.) to the west (on the right in the picture) are the two main peaks on the
island.
Gulf of Naples seen from the Space
Shuttle. Are clearly visible the islands of Ischia (on the extreme left), Procida (on the
right of Ischia) and Capri (in the south), on the right of Capri is the Sorrentina
Peninsula and the Amalfi coast. The Vesuvio volcano is the big structure to the right of
the photo.
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