Panoramic view of actor and director Christian De Sica's villa in Capri, overlooking the bay
Bill Christian De Sica that his first trip to Capri he went to visit his father during the filming of The Bay of Dreams (It Started in Naples, Melville Shavelson, 1960), in which the master of Italian neorealism participated as an actor alongside Clack Gable and Sophia Loren. Christian was then nine years old and his parents, Vittorio De Sica and the Catalan actress María Mercader –sister of Ramón Mercader, the murderer of León Trotsky–, they had recently managed to get married after 17 years of clandestine love. They were happy times, very happy.
The Bay of Dreams did not contribute much to the cinema –except for the scene of Sophia Loren singing*Tu Vuò Fà L’Americano,* Renato Carosone's great hit–, but it fulfilled its function promoting Capri and the Italian Riviera to the American public. It was also the beginning of Christian's love affair with the island. And there, on the slopes of Mount Solaro, In 1996, the famous actor, comedian and showman bought, together with his wife, Silvia Verdone, the splendid villa that today is sold exclusively through Lionard Luxury Real.
The villa, which was commissioned by the symbolist painter and poet Elihu Vedder at the beginning of the 20th century, has belonged to the De Sica family since 1996.
Baptized I Quattro Venti, the villa was ordered to be built at the beginning of the 20th century by the American Symbolist painter and poet Elihu Vedder, who set up his studio there. An idyllic place, a source of inspiration, where many of the great artists, intellectuals, spiritual thinkers and seekers of the early and mid-20th century, including Earl Earl Brewster, to the first to whom the villa belonged for a time, and his great friend D. H. Lawrence –here he wrote a large part of Lady Chatterley's Lover–, the unclassifiable and multidisciplinary artist (as well as nomad and shaman) Joseph Beuys or the painter Cy Twombly.
One of the two panoramic terraces of the villa.
The villa, completely renovated, but full of stories, has a total of 250 square meters distributed over two floors, huge windows and two large terraces with sea views, as well as an adjoining relaxation area, with a bathroom lined with magnificent mosaics, that can be used as a guest house.
The villa has a relaxation area covered in mosaics.
From I Quattro Venti you can see the entire Bay of Naples, the Gulf of Salerno and even the summit of Vesuvius. surrounded by gardens, lemon and olive trees, it offers easy access to the port, and the famous piazzetta di Capri is only a 10-minute walk away.