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Hotel La Palma Capri**** In the heart of Capri, alongside the famous town square, soars a huge, centuries-old palm tree that lent its name to Capri's oldest hotel. More than 150 years have gone by since Giuseppe Pagano decided to open his home as a lodging-house, and since he started-up his illustrious guest book. In August 1826, August Kopisch, the German painter and poet, was one of the guests, and being so |
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fascinated by Pagano's account of a sea cave, filled with deep greeny-blue
water so beautiful that it was beyond words, he decided to explore the cave. His painter
friend, Ernst Fries along with Giuseppe Pagano and his son Michele, all went with him.
Upon returning to the Inn, Kopisch used the guest book to expound his enthusiastic account of what had been discovered. Or rather, rediscovered. |
The island's fame gradually grew, the number of visitors constantly increased, and as a
result, in 1845,
"Casa Pagano" was extended and adapted to be better able to welcome the many
foreign visitors
coming to Capri. As such, the original building became Hotel Pagano, described by
Ferdinando
Gregorovius after his visit to Capri in 1853. Hotel Pagano was the artists' favourite
haunt. And especially for the scores of writers and poets who faithfully dedicated parts
of their works to Don Pagano. One of Pagano's most regular visitors was the Alsatian
artist Benner, who painted many of the murals that adorned the hotel for many years. Oil
country princes and sheikhs, actors and writers have all paid a visit. Each receiving a
polite and discreet welcome.
The lodging accommodation is tastefully furnished with flowered wall coverings and
curtains, white couches and terra cotta floors. Therooms are spacious, bright and a
pleasure to be in. The private apartments are period decorated, with majolica floors
encapsulating the colours of the island, luxuriously furnished and almost all have
aprivate terrace. The luscious roof garden is the ideal location for an elegant aperitif
before moving on, perhaps, to an exclusive dinner in the "Le Relais" restaurant.
The unassuming and on no occasion
ostentatious hospitality is the secret of its quietly eminent style.
74 rooms ranging from Junior Suites (some with Jacuzzi pools on the panoramic terrace)
to DeLuxe and Superior Suites, luxuriously equipped with frescoed bathrooms, bedroom
trompe d'oeil'sthat encapsulate the most striking of Capri's splendours and retrace the
time immemorial traditions of Locanda Pagano.
Piano bar -Sauna and massages - car hire-- airport transfers (minibus and Mercedes
limousine services )
- excursions (with or without guides) -- airline, train and ship bookings -- babysitting
-- medical assistance. Seated on the Relais terrace, in the heart of Capri, on the town's
most fashionable road, a time-honoured meeting point for anyone visiting the island, you
can savour the delights of traditional Mediterranean cuisine accompanied by a vast array
of the best wine produced the region wide.
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