When one speaks of the Brown Castle it is normal to think immediately of Portofino, however few know that the castle in Paraggi also belonged to the Browns Timothy Yeats Brown, originally of a Scotch family, following the romantic footsteps of the poets Byron and Shelly, came to Italy, to Portovenere where he lived on the island of Palmaria

Capri is a handsome island close to the towns of Naples, Sorrento, Pompeii, Positano, and Amalfi on the western Italian coast The ship ride across the Gulf of Naples will take you to the port of Jetty Grande on the Isle of Capri, and from there you have several options