Ten minutes' walk from the Piazzetta — the celebrated sun-drenched square that has served as Capri's social heart since the golden age of Italian cinema — Villa Paradiso is a beautifully positioned Capri villa rental that offers the island's legendary glamour alongside a level of privacy and outdoor living that is increasingly rare to find this close to the centre. The name, for once, is not an exaggeration.
The property is arranged across two distinct spaces: a two-storey main villa and an independent guesthouse with its own separate entrance from Via Castello — an arrangement that gives larger groups real flexibility and smaller ones the option of using one wing independently. Together they accommodate up to 8 guests in surroundings of easy, unfussy elegance. Outside, the villa comes into its own entirely. Large shaded terraces, a sunbathing area with hot and cold shower, a dining pergola, an outdoor kitchen with BBQ, and a panoramic swimming pool — all wired with a sound system throughout — create an outdoor living environment that, on Capri, is the definition of the good life. The pool's panoramic outlook over the island and sea beyond is the kind of view that makes every other concern temporarily irrelevant.
Capri's greatest landmarks — I Faraglioni, the Blue Grotto, the Gardens of Emperor Augustus, Villa Malaparte, the Piazzetta itself — are all within walking distance or a short boat ride, making Villa Paradiso as well-placed for exploration as it is for doing absolutely nothing at all.