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Italy's eternal island: to an international cast, Capri is still the first resort.(includes related travel, dining, and lodging information)(Cover Story)

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From: Town & Country
Date: 19960601
Author:DeWitt, Barbara; Medford, Sarah

Capri Island, occupied as the seat of government by the emperor Tiberius from 26-37 AD, is perhaps the most enduring resort area in the Western world. For generations, the international elite have been attracted to the island's extraordinary beauty and relaxed lifestyle.

Capri, D.H. Lawrence once wrote acidly, "is a gossipy, villa-stricken, two-humped chunk of limestone, a microcosm that does heaven much credit, but mankind none at all." As the longest-running resort in the Western world, Capri has been favored--and ever so occasionally scorned--by high-wattage visitors from Goethe to ...

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