You wouldn't think it could take a decade to find a decent home on Capri, the diminutive Italian resort island that has been a stylish holiday haunt since the early days of the Roman Empire. But for one discerning man, finding the right house turned into a protracted project. The homeowner, an attorney from Naples, began visiting the island regularly in 1991 and spent part of virtually every stay looking at properties. "I looked at so many houses," he says, "but I was drawn to none." Then, on the last day of his summer vacation in 2000, he heard about a possibility in Linaro, an area of Anacapri on the island's mountainous western side. The home sits above Capri's famous Blue Grotto and is not far from the fragrant pine forest of Damecuta, site of a Roman villa built for Emperor Tiberius.
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