Capri travel guide, in your ear
The island of emperors and movie stars, the Blue Grotto, the Faraglioni rocks, Villa Jovis, and a glamour that has drawn the world's richest and most famous since Roman times.
- 15 narrated stops
- ~45 minutes of stories
- 6 languages
- Offline ready
What is the Gingerguide Capri tour?
It is a self-guided audio walking tour of Capri, Italy, inside the Gingerguide travel guide app. The tour maps 15 sights and tells the story of each one in a two to three minute narration with a lifelike AI voice. When the story is not enough, ask the built-in AI guide about the place and keep the conversation going. Everything is available in six languages and works fully offline after a one-time download.
About Capri
Capri is a small rock in a blue bay that has spent two thousand years being the place people with everything come to escape. Step off the boat, ride the funicular up, and you land in a world of white villas, lemon gardens, and impossible cliffs, where the main square is the size of a living room and the whole point is to be seen doing nothing.
It is glamorous and very old, and the two are connected by an emperor. Two thousand years ago Tiberius, ruler of the entire Roman world, moved to Capri and governed the empire from it for the last decade of his life, trusting the sea around him more than the senate in Rome. He set the template the island has followed ever since: the beautiful hideaway where the powerful answer to no one. After the emperors came painters, writers, and film stars, and none of them ever really left.
That spirit still runs the place. Everything happens on the Piazzetta, a tiny square of cafe tables under a majolica clock tower, the drawing room of the world since the 1930s. Order a drink, pay for the view, and watch everyone watch everyone. Walk ten minutes in any direction and the crowds vanish into whitewashed lanes, lemon groves, and gardens over a sea so blue it looks dyed.
The sights live up to it. Off the shore stand the Faraglioni, three huge stacks of rock rising from the water, one home to a blue lizard found nowhere else. On the north coast, a low gap opens into the Blue Grotto, a sea cave lit from below to an unreal electric blue. And high above, you can climb to Tiberius's ruined palace and stand where an emperor governed the world with the whole bay at his feet.
Do not leave on the last ferry. The day-trippers pour off around five, and what they leave behind is the real Capri: the light going gold on the Faraglioni, the Piazzetta filling with people who actually live here, and a quiet that two thousand years of emperors and film stars all came for. Find a terrace and watch the lights come on across the water toward Naples. You will understand exactly why Tiberius stayed.
One day in Capri
A simple way to walk the highlights, following the route order in the app. Swap anything; Capri rewards detours.
What to see in Capri: all 15 stops
Every place below has its own narrated story in the app, and its own answers when you want more. Walk them in any order; the map shows what is around you.
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Blue Grotto (Grotta Azzurra)
Capri's most famous natural wonder, a sea cave where sunlight entering through an underwater opening creates an unearthly cobalt blue glow in the water, accessible only by rowboat through a low sea-level entrance.
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La Piazzetta: Piazza Umberto I
The social heart of Capri, a tiny square with four famous café terraces and a clock tower, known as "the world's most famous café terrace" and the gathering point where Capri's social life has played out for over a century.
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Villa Jovis: Tiberius's Palace
The largest and best-preserved of the twelve villas built by Emperor Tiberius on Capri, from here, on the island's eastern summit, Tiberius ruled the Roman Empire for eleven years, and the 330-metre cliff below the palace bears the sinister name Salto di Tiberio (Tiberius's Leap).
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Gardens of Augustus
Terraced gardens laid out by the industrialist Friedrich Alfred Krupp in the early 20th century and renamed for Emperor Augustus in 1918, with bougainvillea, roses, and Mediterranean flowers cascading down the cliff above Via Krupp, offering the most photographed view of Via Krupp's zigzag path and the Faraglioni rocks.
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Faraglioni Rocks
Three iconic limestone stacks rising from the sea off Capri's southern coast, the island's most recognisable natural symbol, home to a unique blue lizard, with a natural arch through which boats traditionally pass for good luck.
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Via Krupp
A dramatic zigzag cliff path cut in 1902 by the German industrialist Friedrich Krupp, descending from the Gardens of Augustus to Marina Piccola through 100 metres of sheer cliff, one of the most remarkable pieces of path engineering in Italy.
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Monte Solaro: Summit and Chairlift
The highest point of Capri at 589 metres, reached by a vintage single-seat chairlift from Anacapri, with views spanning the entire Bay of Naples, the Gulf of Salerno, the Sorrento peninsula, and on the clearest days the distant coast of Sicily to the south-west.
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Anacapri Village
The upper village of Capri, quieter and less touristy than the main town, with its own distinctive character, the Villa San Michele of Axel Munthe, the Church of San Michele with its famous majolica floor, and the chairlift to Monte Solaro.
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Villa San Michele: Axel Munthe
The villa built by the Swedish physician and author Axel Munthe near Anacapri, the subject of his 1929 memoir The Story of San Michele, with an extraordinary terrace sphinx and views of the Bay of Naples, now open as a museum.
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Belvedere di Tragara
The finest cliff walk on Capri, Via Tragara leads from the Piazzetta through the residential villas of the island's most exclusive residential quarter to this clifftop belvedere directly above the Faraglioni, the best photography point on the island.
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Natural Arch (Arco Naturale)
A dramatic 18-metre limestone arch on Capri's eastern coast, the collapsed remnant of a prehistoric cave, accessible by a 20-minute walk from the main town through Mediterranean woodland.
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Capri Fashion and Via Camerelle
Capri has been a symbol of luxury and fashion since the 1950s, Via Camerelle is the island's luxury shopping street, and the Capri sandal artisans who make custom leather sandals to order represent a living artisanal tradition that predates the modern fashion industry.
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Canzone del Mare Beach Club
Capri's most legendary beach club, opened in 1950 by the English entertainer Gracie Fields, Marina Piccola's famous swimming platform with a storied history as the gathering place of the 20th century's most celebrated artists, writers, and entertainers.
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Grotta di Matermania
A large natural cave on Capri's eastern cliff, converted by the Romans into a nymphaeum (sacred grotto) with decorated walls and a mosaic floor, accessible on the cliff walk between the Natural Arch and the Belvedere di Tragara.
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Capri Lemons and Local Products
Capri produces its own distinctive limoncello from the island's lemon groves, slightly different from the Sorrento variety, alongside other local products including Capri wine (particularly white wine from the Falanghina grape), hand-painted ceramics, and local biscuits.
Three things most visitors miss
Blue Grotto (Grotta Azzurra)
The Blue Grotto was used as a private swimming grotto by the Emperor Tiberius, who ruled the Roman Empire from Capri between 27 and 37 AD. During underwater archaeological investigations of the cave floor, Roman sculptures including a triton and a Poseidon were found, along with evidence of an elaborate Roman lighting system using oil lamps. These sculptures are now displayed in the Casa Rossa museum in Anacapri.
La Piazzetta: Piazza Umberto I
The Piazzetta was described by the Swedish novelist Axel Munthe (who lived on Capri and wrote The Story of San Michele) as "the world's most famous café terrace", a description that has since become the standard marketing epithet for the square. Munthe was one of the central figures of the early 20th century international community on Capri.
Villa Jovis: Tiberius's Palace
Tiberius ruled the Roman Empire from Capri for eleven years, from 27 AD until his death in 37 AD, without once returning to Rome. This absence from the capital was unprecedented in Roman history and was deeply disturbing to the Roman political class, which expected its emperors to be physically present in the city. The power vacuum in Rome was filled by the Praetorian prefect Sejanus, who abused his position so severely that Tiberius eventually had him executed in 31 AD.
Capri tour: questions and answers
Do I need a tour guide in Capri?
Not a human one. Gingerguide covers Capri with 15 narrated sights, so you get the stories a guide would tell, at your own pace and on your own route. And if a story leaves you with a question, you can ask the built-in AI guide and discuss the place right there, the way you would with a guide.
How many stops does the Capri audio tour have?
The Capri guide covers 15 sights. Each one has a researched story of roughly three minutes, about 45 minutes of listening in total. You choose the order and the pace; the tour is self-guided.
Does the Capri tour work offline?
Yes. You can download Capri in the app, audio, photos, and offline map tiles included. After the download, the full tour works without an internet connection.
Which languages does the Capri guide support?
Every Capri narration is available in English, Spanish, French, German, Turkish, and Chinese. You can switch the language in the app at any time.
Is the Capri audio guide free?
The Gingerguide app is free to download, and Capri includes a free preview: you can see all 15 sights on the map at no cost. A premium subscription unlocks the full stories, audio narration, and the offline download.
Hear Capri tell its own story.
Preview all 15 Capri stops free in the Gingerguide app.