Villa Lysis is an Art Nouveau villa built in 1905 on behalf of the French poet, Count Jacques Fersen who made it his home.
The project is Édouard Chimot.
He built it on land on top of a hill at the far end of the island, near the place where, two millennia earlier, the Roman emperor Tiberius had built his Villa Jovis, and he called it Villa Lysis with reference to dialogue by Plato 'Lysis'.
Roger Peyrefitte described it as the living symbol of upper Capri, refined and subtly negative, subversive and pagan.
The residence with library, opium den, altars, made up of confused references to the neo-Gothic and neo-classical taste, is however inserted in the island's building tradition.
Today the villa is managed by the Villa Lysis Foundation and welcomes projects of a cultural and artistic nature.
Villa Lysis
Address: Via Lo Capo 12, 80076
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http://www.villalysiscapri.comLocation inserted by
Gina Affinito