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In 1900 the German magnate Krupp financed a street for travel by foot that joined the Quisisana, where he lived, to the Marina Piccola. Built with admirable skill by the engineer Emilio Mayer, it has been called "the world's most beautiful road", thanks to the manner in which it hugs the rock and the appropriate use of local construction materials . R. PANE, 1965 If ever there has been a well-built street, both in terms of its structure and with regard to the setting for which it was designed, that street is the Via Krupp, built roughly sixty years ago by the engineer Emilio Mayer for the purpose of connecting the Charterhouse zone with the Marina Piccola: in other words, laying down a panoramic path that would unite upper Capri with its most prestigious waterfront section. The road... is cut into the living rock, and moves at a constant slope, and yet those who take it experience no fatigue, either in walking up or down, because they discover at every turn a new sight, a new view of the sky or coast that each step helps renew. The Via Krupp demonstrates that even a road can be a work of art; and not merely as a figure of speech, but in the true, aesthetic sense of the word. |
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