Capri

The small island of Capri is 5 km from the mainland in the Bay of , a celebrated beauty spot and coastal resort since the days of the Roman Republic until now. It is also part of .
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  • Type: Village with 7,060 residents
  • Description: island near Naples
  • Also known as: Capreae”, “Isle of Capri”, and “Isola di Capri

Places of Interest

Highlights include Villa Jovis and Villa San Michele.

Archaeological site
is a Roman palace on Capri, southern , built by Emperor Tiberius and completed in 27 AD. Tiberius ruled mainly from there until his death in 37 AD.

Museum
The was built about the end of the 19th century on the isle of Capri, , by the physician and author Axel Munthe.

Castle
is an archaeological ruin and ornithological station in , on the island of Capri, . It is named after the former corsair and Ottoman Kapudan Pasha Hayreddin Barbarossa, who stormed it in 1535 and destroyed it in 1544.

Capri

Latitude
40.5493° or 40° 32′ 58″ north
Longitude
14.2435° or 14° 14′ 37″ east
Population
7,060
Elevation
142 metres (466 feet)
IATA airport code
PRJ
Open location code
8FGPG6XV+PC
Open­Street­Map ID
node 68581097
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
3180630
Wiki­data ID
Q173292
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Capri” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: Capri
  • Arabic: قبرة
  • Arabic: كابري
  • Armenian: Կապրի
  • Azerbaijani: Kapri Adası
  • Azerbaijani: Kapri
  • Bashkir: Капри
  • Basque: Capri
  • Belarusian: Востраў Капры
  • Belarusian: Капры
  • Bengali: ক্যাপ্রি
  • Breton: Enez Capri
  • Bulgarian: Капри
  • Catalan: Caprae
  • Catalan: Capreae
  • Catalan: Capri
  • Catalan: Illa de Capri
  • Cebuano: Capri
  • Cebuano: Isola di Capri
  • Chinese: 卡布里島
  • Chinese: 卡普里岛
  • Chinese: 卡普里島
  • Corsican: Capri
  • Croatian: Capri
  • Czech: Capri
  • Danish: Capri
  • Dutch: Capri
  • Egyptian Arabic: كابرى
  • Esperanto: Capri
  • Esperanto: Kapreo
  • Estonian: Capri
  • Finnish: Capri
  • French: Caprée
  • French: Capri
  • French: Île de Capri
  • Galician: Capri
  • Georgian: კაპრი
  • German: Capri (Insel)
  • German: Capri
  • Greek: Κάπρι
  • Hebrew: קאפרי
  • Hebrew: קפרי
  • Hindi: कैप्री द्वीप
  • Hungarian: Capri
  • Indonesian: Capri
  • Interlingua: Capri
  • Interlingua: Insula de Capri
  • Irish: Capri
  • Italian: Capri
  • Italian: Isola di Capri
  • Japanese: カプリ島
  • Kazakh: Kaprï
  • Kazakh: Капри
  • Kazakh: كاپرىي
  • Korean: 카프리 섬
  • Korean: 카프리섬
  • Latin: Caprea
  • Latin: Capreae
  • Latvian: Kapri sala
  • Latvian: Kapri
  • Lithuanian: Kapri
  • Lithuanian: Kapris
  • Lombard: Capri
  • Luxembourgish: Capri
  • Macedonian: Капри
  • Neapolitan: Isula ‘e Capri
  • Neapolitan: Isula ’e Capri
  • Neapolitan: Isula e Capri
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Capri
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Capri
  • Norwegian: Capri
  • Novial: Kapri
  • Occitan (post 1500): Capri (illa)
  • Occitan (post 1500): Capri
  • Ossetian: Капри
  • Persian: کاپری
  • Polish: Capri
  • Portuguese: Capri
  • Portuguese: Cápri
  • Portuguese: Ilha de Capri
  • Romanian: Capri
  • Romanian: Insula Capri
  • Russian: Капри
  • Scots: Capri
  • Serbian: Kapri
  • Serbian: Капри
  • Serbo-Croatian: Capri
  • Serbo-Croatian: Kapri
  • Sicilian: Capri
  • Slovak: Capri
  • Slovenian: Capri
  • Slovenian: Isola di Capri
  • Slovenian: otok Capri
  • Spanish: Capri
  • Spanish: Isla de Capri
  • Swedish: Capri
  • Tagalog: Capri
  • Thai: Capri
  • Thai: กาปรี
  • Thai: เกาะกาปรี
  • Thai: เกาะคาปรี
  • Thai: คาปรี
  • Turkish: Capri Adası
  • Turkish: Capri
  • Turkish: Isola di Capri
  • Ukrainian: Капрі
  • Upper Sorbian: Capri
  • Urdu: کیپری
  • Uzbek: Kapri
  • Vietnamese: Capri
  • Waray (Philippines): Capri
  • Welsh: Capri
  • Wu Chinese: 卡普里岛
  • Yue Chinese: 卡布里島

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