Unusual Walks

Santa Teresa

A five-minute walk from the Piazzetta, walking under the portico of Via Madre Serafina, there is a staircase that leads you to the complex of Santa Teresa. It is made up of the Church of SS. Salvatore, built in 1666 according to the will of Mother Serafina di Dio, and from the convent of the Teresian nuns, whose presence gave the place its name.

Although many of the old houses of the nuns today are private homes, it is still possible to walk in the portico and breathe the history of this complex, which was the center of seventeenth-century Capri.

There were numerous donations that allowed the construction of these buildings and are remembered in the tombstones that you can find along the walls of the church and monastery.

In the Church, a wooden statue dedicated to the SS. Salvatore, sculpted by Giacomo Colombo, as well as a beautiful ceramic majolica floor, currently covered to avoid damage by Leonardo Chiaese, the master riggiolare of the majolica floor of the earthly paradise of the church of San Michele in Anacapri.

Unusual Walks

Santa Teresa

Although many of the old houses of the nuns today are private homes, it is still possible to walk in the portico and breathe the history of this complex, which was the center of seventeenth-century Capri.

There were numerous donations that allowed the construction of these buildings and are remembered in the tombstones that you can find along the walls of the church and monastery.

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