Capri’s Winter Cuisine: Minestra Maritata
February, the last month of winter, a time when the island, still dormant, envelops its inhabitants and its few visitors with the charm of bygone times.It is the perfect month to be transported to the Capri of the past, thanks to the flavors and aromas of its ancient cuisine. A humble cuisine, where people had […]
The island of death: love and betrayal in Capri
Between the second half of the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth century, a large and anomalous colony of wealthy foreigners was formed in Capri. Among them there were bankers, entrepreneurs, artists, eccentric types, lesbians, pederasts, femmes fatales, opium smokers…These people, dazzled by the beauty of the place, made it their home, building […]
San Costanzo vs Boalim
May 14 falls on the day in Capri celebrates the patron saint Costanzo, under whose protection, the population has for almost a thousand years resisted the scourge of continuous raids of Saracens, pirates and Ottoman corsairs.In reality we only know about Constantius that he was a bishop who lived in the seventh century, passed through […]
The Capri of yesteryear. A trip to the… more
Among the various golden moments that Capri has lived, there was one particularly magical, both for guests of the island and its inhabitants, framed by the mouth of our very lucky parents and grandparents as “the Capri of yesteryear”.What time was it? That in the days of Dolce Vita, obviously, when the young Italian Republic […]
The History of Quisisana
Walking through the majolica halls and flower gardens of the Grand Hotel Quisisana you magically retrace the history of Capri. Roger Peyrefitte wrote, describing the life of Capri in the early twentieth century, in the book “The exile of Capri…”: “The triumph of Quisisana was always that of Capri”. The secret of Quisisana is in […]
History of Punta Tragara
The Hotel Punta Tragara is, with Villa Malaparte, one of the most admired and celebrated examples of modern Capri architecture.In 1920 the Milanese engineer Emilio Errico Vismara bought land in Tragara where only the Trattoria Carmela and the studio of the pianist Renata Borgatti stood.In the Roman period, as Svetonio writes, in that area stood […]
White Cave, Wonderful Cave
Near Punta Massullo, where Villa Malaparte stands, is located one of the most elaborate geological complexes on the island. Two caves in one: the White Cave, at sea level, and the Wonderful Cave, in the overhanging part. The White Cave is named after the color of the tuff that colors light shades the marine cavity. […]
The faces of characters from the world of entertainment in the place symbol of the ‘star system’ world at “La Canzone del Mare”.
Pictorial fantasy, long and happy activity of portraitist able to read the faces of many illustrious characters in the world of show business in an ironic way where never fails a deep interpretation of the human soul. These are the pillars on which is born the exhibition of the artist Andrea Petrone, son of art […]
Let me tell you about the island… The Living Room of the World
The explosive emotional spectrum of living in The Living Room of the World, skillfully blended by the brush of a young writer from Capri. On April 14th, the Collective Novel “Ti racconto dell’isola” (Let me tell you about the island) was presented in Anacapri, at the Mediateca M. Cacace. The novel is written by Capri’s […]
The wine of the World Salon
There is a lot of talk about the main typical dishes of our island. Those who come to the Salotto del mondo do not dispense with enjoying an evening of culinary pleasure with delicacies that are difficult to imitate. Always on the subject of taste and palate, let’s talk about another product linked to the […]
