Capri

Capri is an Italian municipality located in the Metropolitan City of Naples, Campania region, on the island of Capri. It has 7,205 inhabitants in 3.97 km².

The island of Capri is an Italian island located in the Tyrrhenian Sea, on the southern side of the Gulf of Naples, off the Sorrentine Peninsula. It has been a place of celebrated beauty and resort since the days of the ancient Roman republic.

Administratively, the island belongs to the Metropolitan City of Naples, in the Campania region

The municipal territory contains the frazione (subdivision) of Marina Grande. It limits with the municipality of Anacapri.

Geography

Church of San Esteban

The island of Capri is located in the southern part of the Gulf of Naples, in continuity with the Sorrento peninsula, ending in Punta Campanella, opposite the islands of Procida and Ischia (located in the northern part of the same Gulf of Naples).

The Greek historian and geographer Strabo, in his "Geography" considered that Capri was once connected to the mainland. This hypothesis was recently confirmed, and supported by the same geological characteristics that the island presents with the Sorrento Peninsula, and by archaeological findings.

Two different urban centers coexist on the island both because of their geographical separation and because of their traditions and ethnic origin: Capri and Anacapri. These differences are explained by the natural proximity of Capri to the sea: The presence of the port has indeed facilitated commercial and cultural exchanges with the Kingdom of Naples and has consequently determined a greater economic development.

The two communities were in eternal conflict, each bent on defending its own rights, exasperated by the lack of true autonomy, which forced them, over the centuries, to accept the burdensome claims of administrators sent across the mainland to control the local economy.

Demographic evolution

Graphic of demographic evolution of Capri between 1861 and 2011

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