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San Michele Review
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San Michele
- Address: Piazza S.Nicola, Anacapri
- Phone: 081/8372396
- Category: Religious Sites
- Location: Anacapri
Fodor's Review:
The octagonal Baroque church of San Michele on Piazza San Nicola, finished in 1719, is best known for its exquisite majolica pavement (1761), designed by Solimena and executed by the Abruzzese mastro-riggiolaro (master tiler) Leonardo Chiaiese. A walkway skirts the rich ceramic carpet depicting Adam and a duly contrite Eve being expelled from the Garden of Eden, but you can get a breathtaking overview from the organ loft, reached by a winding staircase near the ticket booth. Outside the church is the Via Finestrale, which leads to Anacapri's noted Le Boffe quarter. This section of town, slightly lower on the hillside, is centered around the Piazza Diaz and the church of Santa Sofia and owes its name to the distinctive domestic architecture prevalent here, which uses vaults and sculpted groins instead of cross beams. The word boffe, as it turns out, comes from the Neapolitan dialect for "swollen."
- Cost: EUR 1
- Open: Nov.-Mar., daily 9:30-4; Apr.-June, daily 9:30-5; July-Oct. daily 9-7
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