Travel: Visit Capri and Experience Old-School, Glamorous Italy
This Neapolitan island gets all the love from American tourists because of its heyday in the 1960s and 1970s.
The sun shines down on Capri as if it’s a sparkling gem. From the moment you step onto the island, which is off the coast of Naples, you will feel as though you are on the playground of starlets and VIPs. That’s because, well, you are.
Capri is polished in a way the other two Neapolitan islands, Ischia and Procida, are not. It is safe to describe Capri, in fact, as the polar opposite of Father Naples, the gritty city of which it is a province.
What I mean is that visiting Capri is like walking into a travel brochure. All three islands and their city have storied histories and have attracted tourists forever, but Capri learned to make itself glossy and market the island’s brand long before the others ever did.
As a result, Americans know Capri much better than its two neighbors in the Tyrrhenian Sea in the Bay of Naples. For example, the Capri website is written in perfect English and describes the island as being off the coast of Sorrento rather than Naples. Both are true, but Naples is a city and Sorrento is idyllic. At 4 square miles with a population of more than 12,000, the…
