Capri's Villa Le Scale Completes Renovation

  • January 28, 2012
Capri's Villa Le Scale Completes Renovation
Beginning May 1, the 19th century “Villa of the Steps” will reopen for its ninth season. Owner Anna Maria Coronato, a leading international antiquarian, personally selected the collection of museum-caliber statuary, paintings and objets d'art that distinguish each guestroom.

Guests checking into the Artist's Room, for instance, will find a Marchigana Era bookcase in the bedroom and two 18th century marble basins in the bathroom. The Venetian Room is dominated by an 18th century bookcase that frames the entrance to the boudoir, while the Louis XV1 Room comes with boiserie panels and a terrace overlooking cetrella garden.

All the rooms come with air conditioning, personal safes, mini bars, plasma-screen television sets, surround sound and high-speed wireless Internet access. Most of the rooms have expansive views of the Bay of Naples and they all look out on or open on to private gardens almost three times the size of the villa itself -- including a Secret Garden down a flight of flower-draped weathered stone steps.

Villa Le Scale offers its guests private dining (indoors and outdoors, never more than 14 guests at each meal), room service, turndown service, 24/7 concierge service, an eight-station gym with the latest gear, and a fully stocked wine cellar. The heated swimming pool is ringed with fountains, stone grottoes, a spacious sun terrace and masses of foliage and flowers to create an air of seclusion and privacy.

Rates range from 350 to 650 euros and include a la carte breakfast and taxes for individual bookings. Rates for exclusive rentals are on request. The season runs from May 1 to Sept. 30.

Hotel Profile, more photos: Villa Le Scale