Villa San Michele is the Capri life work of Swedish physician and author Axel Munthe, built at the beginning of the twentieth century and now presented as a house museum and garden in Anacapri.1
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Villa San Michele is the early-twentieth-century life work of Swedish physician and author Axel Munthe, now a house museum and garden in Anacapri. Its collection is largely Roman, Etruscan and Egyptian in origin and includes sculptures selected by Munthe; the museum identifies its granite sphinx as about 3,200 years old. Munthe also acquired the mountainside above the villa to stop bird trapping, and Castello Barbarossa is now used in spring for ornithological study of migratory birds.
A house museum connecting the Swedish writer-physician Axel Munthe’s Capri life with an eclectic ancient-art collection and early conservation action on the Barbarossa mountainside.
