10/23/2011
#303 - Floated around in a sea cavern where the water glows
The Blue Grotto (Italian: Grotta Azzurra) is a noted sea cave on the coast of the island of Capri, Italy. Sunlight, passing through an underwater cavity and shining through the seawater, creates a blue reflection that illuminates the cavern
#301 - Saw the Lighthouse of Capri
LA MIGLIERA - Hike along ridge of Capri, originally uploaded by amber365.
The lighthouse, an octagonal tower erected about a hundred and fifty years ago, in 1866, is among the most important in the Tyrrhenian sea, and second only to that of Genoa as far as lighting capacity is concerned. The sea bed around Punta Carena descends extremely rapidly and at just half a kilometer from the coast already registers a depth of circa 600 meters.
#300 - Saw the Faraglioni of Capri
The Faraglioni are three blocks of rock which have survived coastal landslides, erosion by the sea and all manner of atmospheric corrosion.
The rocks have each been given a name: the first, still attached to the land, is called Stella, the second, separated from the first block by a stretch of sea; Faraglione di Mezzo and the third, Faraglione di Fuori or Scopolo, in other words the head or promontory stretching into the sea.
The rocks have each been given a name: the first, still attached to the land, is called Stella, the second, separated from the first block by a stretch of sea; Faraglione di Mezzo and the third, Faraglione di Fuori or Scopolo, in other words the head or promontory stretching into the sea.
#299 - Stood at the summit of Mt. Solar0, Capri
At the top of Capri - Mount Solaro, originally uploaded by amber365.
Monte Solaro is the highest part of Capri, towering 589 meters above sea level, and boasting a 360° panorama of the island of Capri. In the distance, the mountains of Calabria, the Pennines and the Amalfi coast, the Sorrentine peninsula, the Gulf of Naples, and the islands of Procida and Ischia can be identified.
Here one finds the ruins of the "Fortino di Bruto" built at the start of the 1800's, in the period of the battles between the English and the French.
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