Hotel Punta Tragara in Capri - Interni Magazine

From a mansion overlooking the sea designed by Le Corbusier to a prestigious hotel, the Hotel Punta Tragara in Capri has maintained its stratified and terraced structure, renewing the look of its interiors

Villas perched on the rocks, cobalt blue sea, wild and intoxicating Mediterranean vegetation, lemon pergolas and the sun, grazing lights and cooling shadows. And the harsh spectacle of the Faraglioni, the intimate charm of Marina Piccola, the profile of the Amalfi Coast.

We are in Capri, in the historic Hotel Punta Tragara which over the years has been able to transform itself without betraying its soul, signed Le Corbusier. Over the years, the historic mansion overlooking the sea has renewed and refreshed its interior design. Last intervention, with a high rate of decoration, is the new suite with a panoramic terrace furnished and customized by Etro Home Interiors.

From Le Corbusier to the Manfredi counts

Le Corbusier imagined it as a magical place, a refuge, where “the body, heart and thought are sheltered”. Almost a century later, the “stracasa” commissioned by the Lombard engineer Emilio Errico Vismara overlooking the sea of Capri overlooking the stacks, is enriched with new suggestions under the Conti Manfredi , who in 1973 made it the Hotel Punta Tragara to become in the following years a five-star luxury hotel, now affiliated with Small Luxury Hotels of the World.

Giorgia Dennerlein’s eclectic compositional strategy

The historic home has now become part of the Manfredi Fine Hotel Collection. In 2019 the creative intervention of the architect Giorgia Dennerlein of Loto Ad Project had the ability to sew the volumes of this extraordinary architectural work following the 'suggestions' of the surrounding landscape. In the interior spaces, large patches of light amplify the spaces and accentuate colors and furnishings. The ancient soul of the villa marries and merges with the contemporary through a reasoned and eclectic compositional strategy. Today, the refined rooms of the hotel combine antiques with design elements and works of modern art.

The story

Going back in time, the Hotel Punta Tragara was born as an enchanting residence overlooking the sea with a view of the Faraglioni. It was 1920 when the Lombard engineer Emilio Errico Vismara chose Punta Tragara to build his villa. He entrusted the project to the young architect Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris, better known as Le Corbusier, who in 1937 on Domus describes it as “a architectural flowering, an emanation of the rock, an offshoot of the island, a plant phenomenon, almost a lichen grown on the side of Capri”.

The “Stracasa”

The “Stracasa” of the engineer, as he himself calls it, takes shape - life - as if it were an integral part of the naturalistic backdrop that welcomes it and elevates it, up to the point where dominates everything, on the rock, on the vegetation, on the cobalt blue expanse of the sea. Over the years Punta Tragara changes soul and destination, from a private villa it became the headquarters of the American Command during the Second World War and welcomed illustrious guests such as Winston Churchill and Dwight D. Eisenhower, until in 1968 it was bought by Count Manfredi and later transformed into a luxury hotel.

A style of home

The 'home style' that distinguishes the hotel derives from the Manfredi family and means timeless elegance. A sophisticated style that comes from the ability to perceive the island's natural vocation and interpret it with personality and professionalism according to the best tradition and under the watchful eye of Goffredo and Leonardo Manfredi Ceglia. In the villa where the Count and Countess Manfredi once spent pleasant summers in the company of family, friends and personalities of international social life, today we recognize the most authentic Italian hospitality, or rather, Capri.