oldcapri 

“"Poverty leads to the simplicity and simplicity to the happiness of architectural creation...
…Caprese style construction Capri finds its purest expression in the home. Whether this consists in joining in rural agglomeration without losing contact with the natural environment that surrounds it, just as it is especially in Anacapri's center and outskirts; whether it overlooks with hermit like humility a dazzling view of rocks and sea; or be it that it curls up modest and solid under a threating cliff. For those spending time in front of a house whose door is always ajar, they'll find, between the shadow and light of the rooms and courtyards of pleasant arcades, a grateful wonder, a continuous discovery and opening views of the horizon, that instead of sought-after sceneries, had a serene sense of happiness and a more intimate gathering before nature's moving events. A Caprese-style home has its essential form in the vault construction, which limits its rising vertically and requires a most rigorous functionality of its facilities, and if this characteristic is tied to the architecture of other rural towns of Campania, it is undeniable that in Capri it still appears so rich and full of creative happiness, so that after more than a century, not the construction of beautiful modern buildings and hybrid imitations, but this is the most typical character of the Capri home..."