Certosa di San Giacomo

Monastery Capri, Italy

The Certosa di San Giacomo is one of the oldest buildings on Capri. It was built in 1371 at the behest of Count Giacomo Arcucci, Grand Camerario of Queen Giovanna I of Anjou and was initially a convent. The ancient structure of the convent is still visible today in the three blocks that make up the building: one independent and open to all where the pharmacy and the church for women were located; one intended for lay brothers with granaries, stables and laboratories; the last block for cloistered life with the cells around the Great Cloister and the other rooms of monastic life around the Small Cloister.