Villa Jovis

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Villa Jovis is one of the twelve villas built on Capri by the will of the emperor Tiberius according to the historians Tacitus and Svetonius. The last archaeological excavations by Amedeo Maiuri have highlighted its greatness both in height and an extension making it among the most important imperial villas to visit.

An eloquent example of how the ancient Romans were very sensitive to the search for beauty and a perfect marriage between cutting-edge architectural solutions and aesthetics, the view from the Villa is one of the most beautiful in Capri and allows to dominate almost entirely the gulf of Naples, that of Salerno until the lands of the Cilento.

Un esempio eloquente di come gli antichi romani fossero molto sensibili alla ricerca del bello e di un perfetto connubio tra soluzioni architettoniche all’avanguardia ed estetiche, la vista che si gode dalla Villa è una delle più belle di Capri e permette di dominare quasi interamente il golfo di Napoli, quello di Salerno sino alle terre del Cilento.

To the 7000 square meters of the villa are added

gardens, terraces, belvederes and ninfei that respect the Roman canons architecturally making it a charming and unassailable small fortress.

Under the rule of Charles of Bourbon in the villa there were excavations by the archaeologist Norbert Hadrawa and numerous finds were sold to the major European collectors, or transported to the Archaeological Museum of Naples. Some of these statues can now be seen at the Louvre in Paris and the British Museum in London.

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