Entering the lounge of the Hotel Gatto Bianco you immediately feel that you are in a historic caprese hotel. This “air of Capri” is highlighted in many details: the ceramic floor tiles with floral themes, paintings by famous painters depicting enchanted corners of the island, pergolati terraces where customers slowly enjoy breakfast. You have the impression of staying in a sunny caprese house where the art of hospitality is still handed down. At Il Gatto Bianco, every customer is the protagonist of a dream. Sitting in a velvet armchair, Renato Esposito, member of the Esposito family who has been running the hotel for 70 years. This year Renato, exclusively for his customers, will guide walks in the most suggestive places of Capri and Anacapri
What is the spirit of this initiative?
The hotel has always had an exclusive clientele, very interested in the history and landscape of a thousand-year-old island where every stone can tell a story. No small island in the world has the history of Capri. Many times customers who frequent the island for decades always visit the same places. I always try to make known the most intimate and secret Capri.
In his “walks of author” that every summer he organizes for the City of Capri always talks about the Genius Loci. What do you mean by Genius Loci?
The Genius Loci is the spirit of the island, the identity of the island, which only the attentive and in love eyes can see and understand. This island is experiencing a moment of transition, where the trivialization and commercialization of the image are creeping. I think that only in the silence of a walk you can relive the true Otium caprese
Where will you take your clients?
We will take walks in the nature of the two municipalities. Each one will be special and unique. In spring, I would like to discover the immense variety of the island’s flora with walks in parks such as the Gloriette of Villa Lysis, Parco Astarita, Cetrella and the Via dei Fortini. In the middle of summer the tours of the island with its magical caves. In autumn the flavors and colors of autumn caprese.
Leaving the White Cat, you understand that the “Wanderlust” the joy of walking is a valuable asset, a real luxury that only offers its most sensitive guests.
Walking list:
Saturday 30 March – Villa Lysis and Park la Gloriette. Astarita Park
Saturday 13 April – Monte Solaro and Cetrella.
Saturday 4 May – Fortini di Anacapri. From Mesola to the Faro.
Saturday 25 May – Capri odyssey. Divinity capresi and pagan lights.
Saturday 8 June – Tuoro hill and Piazzetta delle Noci.
Saturday, June 22 – The way of the springs. The way of the water Roman. Palace to sea.
Saturday 6 July – Villa S.Michele and the Fenicia Scala.
Saturday 20 July – Island tour at sunset.
Saturday 3 August – Sunrise tour of the island
Saturday 31 August – Island tour at sunset.
Saturday 14 September – Il Piccolo Parnaso. Anacapri. Old town. Boffe and Caprile.
Saturday 28 September – The heart of Capri. La Piazzetta. Via delle Botteghe. Church of Sant’Anna and Via Longano.
Saturday 5 October – The history of the Piccola Marina – The heart of Capri. The heart of Capri. The Great Houses. Via Castello, La Piazzetta del Pittore. Via Castiglione
