Via Krupp

Via Krupp is a historic hairpin turn paved footpath on the island of Capri, connecting the Charterhouse of San Giacomo and the Gardens of Augustus area with Marina Piccola. Commissioned by the German industrialist Friedrich Alfred Krupp, the path covers an elevation difference of about 100 m (330 ft).[1]

Location of Via Krupp on the south coast of Capri near Marina Piccola

Built between 1900 and 1902, Via Krupp was ostensibly a connection for Krupp between his luxury hotel, Grand Hotel Quisisana, and Marina Piccola, where his marine biology research vessel lay at anchor. Secretly, however, this path also conveyed him to the Grotta di Fra Felice, a grotto where sex orgies with local youths took place. When the scandal surfaced, Krupp was asked to leave Italy in 1902.[2]

Since 1976, Via Krupp has been closed most of the time due to the danger of falling rocks.[1]

See also

References
  1. "Capri: Augustus Gardens - Via Krupp". Retrieved 2010-10-11.
  2. Manchester, William (2003). The Arms of Krupp: The Rise and Fall of the Industrial Dynasty that Armed Germany at War. Back Bay Books. p. 231–232. ISBN 0-316-52940-0.

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