“Kaire ‘o polita apragopoleos”, “Hello, citizen of the land of idleness.” For the welcome sign on the entrance of his eccentric house in Capri, Colonel John Clay MacKowen had chosen ancient Greek and evoked the nickname "apragopolis", or "island of sweet doing nothing" with which the emperor Augustus loved to define Capri to which he was so attached. All clear references to his great passion for archaeology.
The imagination of the contemporary traveler gets lost in the alleys, after crossing Piazza del Plebiscito, touching the Royal Palace, the San Carlo Theater, and Via Toledo, aiming here and there at the surprising green patches of Capodimonte, the vegetable gardens and the Posillipine parks and the coastal cliffs of yellow tuff.
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