The next day, our cruise ship made a stop in the port of Naples, Italy. A few years ago when I was in Italy, I visited both Naples and Pompeii (a short distance away by train). I wanted to go somewhere different this time, and I chose to visit the famous island of Capri.

The island of Capri started occupying an important role in the political and military matters of the Roman Empire when Ottaviano, before becoming Augustus, landed here in 29 B.C. and, struck by the incredible beauty of the island, took it from Naples, in exchange for Ischia. After Ottaviano, the Emperor Tiberius resided on the island for a decade and it was from Capri that he managed the interests of the Empire. In recent history, among those to have stayed on the Island of Capri we find the Russian exile Maxim Gorkiy, author of The Lower Depths (На дне); Emil Adolf von Behring, winner of the first ever Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine; and the writer Norman Douglas, famous for the novel South Wind.

About a forty-five minute commute by ferry from the port of Naples, Capri is filled with thousands of tourists. It was extremely hot the day I was there, so I mostly tried to stay in the shade by walking on tiny streets of Capri, the island's largest city. I captured the image seen in today's entry with the Canon 100mm macro lens while I was standing in a shaded area in front of a souvenir store. What I like about this image is that given the few contextual clues (mainly the wide open sea), one may at first think that the tower is about thirty feet in height or more (especially if you ignore the curved portion of stone to its right). However, the 'tower' is just a tiny protrusion from a roof on one of the buildings on the island. Whether the tower serves more than just an aesthetic purpose, I do not know for certain.
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