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Villa Certosa
Capri, Italy · Independent · Near Luxury
Capri's newest five-star house sits inside a late-nineteenth-century villa on Via Certosa, taken back to lime plaster, travertine and ivory ceramics by Alberto Izzo & Partners and opened in 2024. Fourteen adults-only rooms sit above vaulted galleries, and the terraces look straight down onto the gardens and cloisters of the Certosa di San Giacomo, the Carthusian monastery that gives the street its name. The Piazzetta is a few minutes uphill, Marina Piccola a long look below.
- 14 rooms
- Opened 2024
- Neighborhood: Capri town
- Rooms from 215 sq ft (20 m²)
- Architect: Alberto Izzo & Partners
About Villa Certosa
- Fourteen rooms and adults only, and deliberately so: the architects wrote the brief as an argument against Capri's overtourism rather than another set of beds on a crowded island.
- Second-floor suites take in the sea, the Certosa and the Faraglioni from one terrace, while the rooms on the other side of the house look over the pool and down toward Marina Piccola.
- Entry-level rooms start at 215 sq ft (20 m²).
History
Villa Certosa is a late-nineteenth-century Capri villa on Via Certosa, at the southern edge of the historic centre, converted into a five-star boutique hotel and opened in 2024. The restoration was designed by Alberto Izzo & Partners, with Ferruccio Izzo leading, for the private client Villa Certosa S.r.l., with landscape work by RSL Rebediani Scaccabarozzi Landscapes. The practice framed the project explicitly against the flattening effect of mass tourism on the island, aiming for a small house that read as a Capri home rather than a hotel.
The work stripped the building back to its essentials and reopened the relationship between house, garden and landscape. Fourteen rooms are arranged across the upper floors around vaulted galleries. Common areas are finished in natural travertine and the rooms in ivory handmade ceramics, with off-white lime-washed walls and natural wood, chosen to amplify the island light rather than decorate it. The main door on Via Certosa opens into a reception conceived as a lounge; a second entrance on Via Cerio comes in under a restored pergola and feels more like a private house. Rooms run from 20 square metre standard doubles up to 36 square metre suites on the second floor with sea-view terraces. There is a pool and a restaurant, and the hotel takes adults only.
The setting
The street is named for the Certosa di San Giacomo, the Carthusian monastery founded in the fourteenth century that sits just below the hotel on a shelf above Marina Piccola. Its cloisters, church and gardens are a museum now, and they are the view from most of the rooms. From the same corner of Capri town the Gardens of Augustus are a short walk, and from there Via Krupp switchbacks down the cliff toward the sea. In the other direction the Piazzetta, Via Camerelle and the shopping streets are a few minutes uphill. The port is a longer proposition, roughly twenty minutes on foot or a taxi ride, which is the price of sitting at the quiet end of the island.
Restaurants and bars
- Bistrot Villa Certosa — Restaurant · Italian tradition and Capri dishes
Experiences
- Discover Capri by boat — Exclusive one-day boat tour aboard a Fiart yacht: spectacular caves, crystal clear waters and breathtaking views.
- Discover the Islands — Boat tour of Ischia and Procida aboard a Fiart yacht, with the possibility of overnight stay on board.
- Discover the Amalfi Coast — Boat tour of the Amalfi Coast aboard a Fiart yacht, sailing between Positano, Amalfi and Ravello, with an overnight stay on board.
- Night swimming — Night swimming in the heated pool under the Capri moonlight.
- Fiart yacht excursions — Private excursions to Capri, the Amalfi Coast and the islands of Procida and Ischia aboard a Fiart yacht.
- Capri tourist guide tour — Licensed guides cover the Piazzetta, Villa Jovis, Gardens of Augustus, Via Krupp, Anacapri and the Blue Grotto.
Amenities
- Private transfer from Rome or Naples with luxury car and embarkation assistance
- Welcome service at Capri port with luggage transport
- Private boat transfer
- Complete door-to-door transfer with private car, hydrofoil and taxi to the villa
- Heated outdoor swimming pool with waterfall and hydromassage bench
- Private transfers to Capri
- Private yacht excursions aboard a Fiart yacht
- Personal shopper
- In-room hair styling
- In-room massage
- Licensed tour guides
- Trekking guides
- Restaurant reservations
- Private cooking classes
- Ceramic painting workshops
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