![]() Sphinx looking over Capri, carved unknown millennia ago in a land across the Mediterranean Sea,Įgypt, its several ton bulk transported to Italy by one of the Caesars, perhaps by Julius as a gift fromĬleopatra, perhaps by Tiberius who built his summer home on the very foundation of San Michele, but To the left, on the white parapet sat the granite Marked the end of the walkway around his chapel. Viewpoint was the eponymous statue of Mi-cha-el the Archangel looking at me from his niche which White wall from the San Michele chapel of Axel Munthe's magnificent house. ![]() The next time I saw the beach and water again was looking out over that Tiny chained barrier, or any of the trees on the mountainside, only beach sand and multi-hued water in As I gazed out the window of the bus towards the sea, I couldn't glimpse the edge of the road, the Of Capri came into view as the beach slowly widened and fell away, till it was a thousand feet below As we wound our way in the tour bus over the sinuous road to the top, the emerald waters ![]() We first glimpsed it as a white wall at the tip of the mountain from the piazza where we disembarked the ferry from Sorrento on the When Del & I visited Axel Munthe’s home, it seemed like the jewel in the crown of Capri, situated in Anacapri, the small town at the top of the island. Reminder of New Reviews & New DIGESTWORLD Issues - CLICK Like Us? Subscribe to Receive a Monthly Email The Story of San Michele by Axel Munthe, A Reading for Enjoyment ARJ2 Review by Bobby Matherne Site Map: MAIN / A Reader's Journal, Vol. ![]()
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