S&V
MAY, 2007

ISOLA DI CAPRI
(CAMPANIA)
Villa Le Scale

The violet flowers of the hundred year old wisteria vines give welcome to Villa le Scale, the Caprese house owned by, antiquarian and interior decorator, Anna Maria Coronato. The property, which was owned by her family and is part of her childhood memories, was begun in the 1700s when it was surrounded by grape vines. Built in the neoclassical style, around the giant Magnolia tree which to this day is a beloved fixture of the gardens, the villa was completed in the early 1800s. A few steps from the main piazza of Anacapri, Villa le Scale is a special hotel, that has maintained the atmosphere and personality of a private home. The nine rooms and suite all have names (the Artist, the Voyager, the Venetian and the Oriental...) attached to the history of it's guests.
The most important is the Collector's Room, with paintings from the seventeenth century by Mattia Preti. The refurbishment saved the original materials such as the 18th century Neapolitan majolica floor, while the furnishings have been chosen by the villa's present owner. Outside the gardens are alive with joy and colour, above all when the lantana, roses, melograno and bleeding hearts are in bloom. What Anna Maria calls her "literary garden" is replete with cooking herbs typical of Capri, some of which are very rare, like eighteen varieties of mint.

Cristina Gambaro

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