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Villa San Michele (Villa Axel Munthe)
Axel Munthe's sumptuous island retreat on Capri
Villa San Michele (Museo Axel Munthe)Viale Axel Munthe (a continuation of Via Capodimonte), Anacapri
tel. +39- 081-837-1401
Nov–Feb 9am–3:30pm
Mar 9am–4:30pm
Apr and Oct 9am–5pm
May–Sept 9am–6pm
www.villasanmichele.eu
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The pergola at Villa San Michele on Capri. (Photo by degreezero2000)The Swedish autobiographer, bird fancier, and selfless doctor Axel Munthe (1857–1949) had a love of Capri and an eye for stupendous, magical views, and he lived here for the last 56 years of his life.
While he originally acquired this land along Monte Barbarossa so as to provide a protected reserve for migratory birds, some of them endangered, he also fixed it up quite nicely as a place to live.
He built his classically inspired villa and its gardens to capitalize on vistas and naturally frame the essences of Capri's beauty, whether it be crumbling walls overflowing with bougainvillea, arbored paths centered on copies of Greek bronzes, ancient columns supporting whitewashed Gothic arches, miniature temples hidden in lush gardens, or a bust-lined balustrade beyond which spill breathtaking panoramas of the island and azure waters.
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- Capri homepage
- Nearby destinations: Naples, Sorrento, Amalfi Coast (Positano, Amalfi, Ravello), Pompeii
- Campania guide
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