Itinerary
A day devoted entirely to exploring the magical island of Capri starting with a pick up from your hotel, or established meeting place, for a transfer to the port of Sorrento and a 20 minute or so ferry crossing to Capri.
(More information and videos on Capri and Anacapri is provided below)

A minibus takes you up to the beautiful village of Anacapri, above Capri, where free time allows you to explore the shops with their wide variety of typical products and clothing, have lunch or visit the famous Villa San Michele. Nature and landscape lovers may decide to get the chair lift that goes to the summit of Monte Solaro, the highest point of the island at 600 metres.

You continue the tour by descending to the famous "Piazzetta" of Capri, meeting place of VIPs and a vantage point of great beauty. There you have free time for shopping amongst the exclusive boutiques or go for a short walk to the Gardens of Augustus with breathtaking views before returning to the port at Marina Grande.

If time and weather permits, you can enjoy the beauty of the coast of the island with a boat ride or visit the Blue Grotto which is known throughout the world for its size, and for its intense blue and silvery white water reflecting immerse objects. (see below for more information).

After this wonderful tour of the Capri you return to the port of Sorrento and subsequent transfer by minibus to your hotel by late afternoon.

Days available
Every day of the week

Pickup points and times
You will be advised of the most convenient pickup point for your accommodation
Approx 08.00 start and 17.00 return depending on the pickup point

Method of payment
After reservations have been confirmed payment can be made by credit card before the visit or in the Sorrento office itself, whichever is the more convenient.
To book a reservation please use our enquiry form or telephone +44 (0) 1446 771220.

Optional extras paid on site.
Villa San Michele entrance fee € 11.00
Chair lift.
Boat trip along the Capri coast
Visit to the Blue Grotto

Additional Notes
Lunch is not included in the price of this excursion

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Background information about the locations visited on this excursion
Here is some factual information about Capri and Anacapri.
You can also see videos of Capri and Anacapri on Friends of Sorrento TV

Anacapri
This beautiful village, which today is a town in itself, is an integral part of the island. Inhabited since Roman times, as evidenced by the many ruins, Anacapri had its heyday between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, when it became a coveted "retreat" for artists from across Europe who came here to spend happy holidays and to find inspiration.

Villa San Michele
Villa San Michele was bought and restored in 1895 by Swedish doctor Axel Munthe, who fell in love with the ruins of an ancient chapel, consisting of a few crumbling walls. While doing restoration work in the adjacent vineyard the remains of an ancient Roman villa came to light, he decorated the new house with numerous archaeological remains that may be observed in the original construction of Munthe. The restoration lasted many years. The story of his life is told in an autobiography, he wanted to call it "The Story of San Michele”, which also contains all phases of the restoration and it was published in 1929, and proved to be one of the most read books in the twentieth century. Upon his death in Rome in 1949, Munthe left the house to the Swedish state. Today it is owned by a Swedish foundation that has transformed it into a museum where, in the summer, beautiful classical music concerts are held.

Gardens of Augustus
The gardens were commissioned in the '30s by the German steel magnate Krupp, who also wanted to achieve, a masterpiece of engineering made of winding roads above the sea, linking the gardens and the Certosa at Marina Piccola .

Blue Grotto
To enter the Blue Grotto you have to climb in a small rowboat, lying on the bottom, you cross the narrow gap opened in the natural rock. It is impossible to do on days when the wind blows south-west or northwest. The entrance to the Blue Grotto is a small gap in the rock wall, about 2 meters wide and high, which is about 1 meter above sea level. Abandoning the oars the rower pushes the boat into clinging to a side chain on the ceiling of the entrance. The interior is all light blue, once called the Blue Dome, it has an average height from 7 to 14 feet, the erosion of the cavity is about 60 meters long and 25 wide. The cave continues with the Hall of Pillars, three communicating branches that converge in the Hall of Names, so named for the many visitors signatures affixed to the walls, and the Passage of Corrosion, to the last accessible point, the Hall of Corrosion . The blue colour of the Blue Grotto is due to the fact that daylight enters through an underwater window that appears right under the entrance, thus undergoing a change of colour, which absorbs the red colour and lets blue filter through. It is believed that the interior of the Blue Grotto in Roman times, the time of Tiberius, was used as a marine ninfeo, there have been those who have imagined it as a place where the Nereids or Syrens and those who believed it was the kingdom of devils, intimidating anyone who dared enter