centro storico, costiero, Capri

Capri is an ancient island centre, a famously refined seaside resort cradling a thriving tradition of artistic craftsmanship alongside a robust rural and maritime culture. Its geometric profile is varied and classified as hilly: the peaks of Monte Solaro and Monte Tiberio lend a wild aspect to the landscape, which descends toward the sea through a series of hill spurs. Lush spontaneous vegetation of Mediterranean maquis and coppice woods is punctuated by skilfully planted orchards and shrubs. The limestone coast is sheer in places, perforated by countless caves and surrounded by rocks of every shape, most notably the faraglioni. The island is composed mainly of unstratified calcareous dolomites, covered by wind-borne pyroclastic deposits from neighbouring volcanoes. It rises high from the sea, its morphology consisting of two plateaux linked by a central saddle. Inhabited since the Palaeolithic era, when it was still joined to the mainland, Capri was held by the Greeks and then the Romans.

Description via source. Coordinates and heritage data from the Atika atlas.