Centro Storico Capri

The heart of the historic center is undoubtedly famous Piazzetta, or Piazza Umberto I, the navel of the world, place always chosen to have a chat and watch the walk slalom between bars, one for each corner of the square. From here the two most important residential areas branch off: one bounded by Via Madre Serafina, where you can admire the immense building that groups church and monastery commonly called Santa Teresa, founded by Mother Serafina di Dio in the seventeenth century, from via S. Aniello, via l’Abate e Posterula (small gate), developed around the Case Grandi after 1300, the other on the north side (behind Piazza Umberto I), much older, built around the small church of S. Maria delle Grazie (scolo XI), parish of Capri until 1556.

Around They Branch The Streets Strieri (Strettoie), Li Curti (Ancient Curtiglie) Parish Canal, The Shops And Longano (From the Greek longones = Large Stones), The Which It Joins Along The Megalithic Walls of VII sec. to.C, The Ancient Walls That Cinged and Defended The Village.

These two quarters were made up of small houses with as many small closed, often contiguous “courtyards” and crossed by narrow, covered streets that could easily be blocked for defense against Saracen raids.