Capri
Comune Di Capri And Comune Di Anacapri; Area Marina Protetta Punta Campanella Adjoins; No UNESCO Listing · Capri, Campania
A limestone island four kilometres off the tip of the Sorrento peninsula, ten and a half square kilometres holding about thirteen thousand residents and, on a bad August day, fifty thousand visitors. Tiberius ran the Roman Empire from these cliffs for a decade and the ruins of his Villa Jovis still stand above the eastern point. The Blue Grotto on the north coast is entered lying flat in a rowing boat under an opening barely a metre high, and glows from sunlight coming up through the water beneath. The Faraglioni sea stacks, the single-seat chairlift to Monte Solaro at 589 metres and the cafe tables of the Piazzetta are the rest of the shorthand. Everything is pebble or rock; there is no sand anywhere on it. Day boats land from about ten in the morning and leave by five, and the island once they have gone is a different and far better place. Non-residents cannot bring a car from late March to early November, and since 2026 tour groups are capped at forty people.
Piazza Umberto I, Capri, Campania, 80073, Italy
The island is open always and ferries run year round. The Blue Grotto roughly 09:00-18:00 in summer, 09:00-14:00 in winter, weather permitting, closed 25 December and 1 January. Monte Solaro chairlift roughly 09:15-17:00 April to October and 09:30-16:00 in winter. Villa Jovis 10:00-19:00 in summer, closed Mondays. Villa San Michele 09:00-19:00 in high summer, closed February.