Overview
Munthe built it himself, in pieces, reusing Roman fragments he dug out of the hillside — columns, floors, a sphinx of Egyptian granite set on the parapet facing the bay. The rooms are furnished as he left them and are modest; the loggias and the pergola are the architecture. He also bought Barbarossa hill above the house to stop the netting of migrating quail, and it remains a bird sanctuary.
Highlights
Go for the pergola and the sphinx at the end of it, which look down eight hundred metres to Marina Grande. The Anacapri bus from Capri town takes fifteen minutes on a road worth the ride in itself. Combine it with the chairlift to Monte Solaro, which starts a few minutes’ walk away.