Capri
The small Italian island of Capri is 5 km from the mainland in the Bay of Naples, a celebrated beauty spot and coastal resort since the days of the Roman Republic until now. It is also part of Campania.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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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.
Villa Jovis
Archaeological site
Photo: Buckeye, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Villa Jovis is a Roman palace on Capri, southern Italy, built by Emperor Tiberius and completed in 27 AD. Tiberius ruled mainly from there until his death in 37 AD.
Villa San Michele
Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Villa San Michele was built about the end of the 19th century on the isle of Capri, Italy, by the Swedish physician and author Axel Munthe.
Castello Barbarossa
Castle
Castello Barbarossa is an archaeological ruin and ornithological station in Anacapri, on the island of Capri, Italy. It is named after the former corsair and Ottoman Kapudan Pasha Hayreddin Barbarossa, who stormed it in 1535 and destroyed it in 1544.
Capri
- Categories: island and locality
- Location: Capri, Metropolitan Naples, Campania, Southern Italy, Italy, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.5493° or 40° 32′ 58″ northLongitude
14.2435° or 14° 14′ 37″ eastPopulation
7,060Elevation
142 metres (466 feet)IATA airport code
PRJOpen location code
8FGPG6XV+PCOpenStreetMap ID
node 68581097OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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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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