Caesar Augustus Relais & Chateaux

Caesar Augustus Relais & Chateaux

The cliff drops 300 meters straight into the Bay of Naples, and Caesar Augustus sits right on its edge, in Anacapri, the quieter town on Capri where seamstresses still make shirts to measure and the piazzas belong to children and old men playing cards rather than influencers. This Relais & Chateaux hotel has 56 rooms across four floors, including five suites carved into the most panoramic corners of the building, with views running from Vesuvius to the Sorrentine peninsula and the islands of Procida and Ischia. No other hotel on the island holds a position like it: the terrace bar, the pool, the restaurant and most of the bedrooms look out over open water rather than rooftops or gardens. The double-level infinity pool and the cliff-top gardens, scented with lavender and rosemary, do the same work quietly. La Terrazza di Lucullo serves food grown in the hotel's own kitchen garden, and the outdoor wellness center sits beside a fitness terrace built for the same view. The hotel is Adults Only, and its suites ask that children be at least ten given the steps and terraced grounds, so this is not a family address. It suits a couple or a woman travelling alone who wants Capri's landscape without Capri's nightlife: the historic center of Anacapri is an easy walk, the Piazzetta and its crowds a ten-minute taxi ride away should she want them. Boats can be arranged for the Amalfi Coast, and the chairlift to Monte Solaro is within walking distance. What stays with you afterward is not the rooms but the fact that the view was never once interrupted by a wall. Perched on a 300-meter cliff above the Bay of Naples in Anacapri, Caesar Augustus has 56 rooms, five panoramic suites, and a double-level infinity pool with an unbroken sea view. It is Adults Only, better suited to couples than families with young children.