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Villa San Michele
The Swedish doctor Axel Munthe's villa and garden in Anacapri, above a sheer drop to the sea.
- Open
- Every day
- Price
- Paid
- Time Needed
- 1 hour
- Address
- Viale Axel Munthe 34, AnacapriDirections
- Getting There
- A short walk from the bus stop in the center of Anacapri.
Why Go
Munthe built the villa from the 1890s on the ruins of a chapel and a Roman villa, and wrote of it in his best-selling The Story of San Michele. Its loggias are filled with ancient fragments, and a granite sphinx gazes out over the gulf from the end of the garden.
Nearby in Capri
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