Villa San Michele

Historic Villa Capri, Italy

Villa San Michele is a villa built by the poor and fashionable Swedish doctor and writer Axel Munthe in Anacapri on the island of Capri in 1890. Villa San Michele is not a real home but rather the embodiment of thoughts and emotions by Axel Munthe about beauty and the great questions of life, but at the same time remains open to any interpretation.

The Villa San Michele was built without the help of professional architects on the principle of "as much air and sun as possible". Munthe collected ancient art treasures and established a bird sanctuary after seeing the hunting scale of songbirds on the island. Other animals, including a monkey, kept the eccentric animal rights activist on his property. The villa is located in an area where Roman emperors, especially Tiberius, owned their villas. Munthe also mentions this in his book. Gives his expression to the emperor Tiberius.