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The cave, 54 m (177 ft) long, 15 m (49 ft) high, and 30 m (98 ft) wide, is believed (because of the man-made niches) to have been a nymphaeum, a kind of watery boudoir for the Emperor Tiberius, who retired to Capri in the first century a.d. and built a villa directly above.
Far less known internationally than its glamorous neighboring island of Capri, it is just as different in its volcanic topography as in atmosphere.
It has its perennial favorites: the sister islands of Capri and Ischia in the Bay of Naples, the ruins of Pompeii, and the resorts of the singularly beautiful Amalfi coast.
Of the dozen villas that Tiberius built on Capri, his favorite island retreat, the best preserved is the ruins of Villa Jovis (Jupiter’s Villa, or Tiberius’ Villa), sprawling across an eastern promontory opposite the mainland.
Back at the piazza, take the seggovia chairlift for a soaring view of the whole island and some of the mainland on your way up to the terraced gardens and chestnut trees of Monte Solaro, at 589 m (1,933 ft), Capri’s highest point.