Via Camerelle
Via Camerelle is a street in Capri, Campania, known for being the island's major commercial street. Formerly known as Via Anticaglia, along its route stand the ruins of forty cisterns that served as the base and terracing for the road designed by the Romans that connected the Castiglione to the imperial villa of Tragara. The name of the street, which starts from the square of the Grand Hotel Quisisana and proceeds straight to the beginning of Via Tragara, has an uncertain origin: there are numerous theories that justify this toponym. Toponymy In ancient times, the street was known as via Anticaglia; the term 'Anticaglia' probably refers to the ruins of the forty Roman cisterns that ran along the route of the street.. This name fell into disuse in the 18th century, when the street began to be referred to as Via Camerelle. Although some hypotheses claim that this name referred to a stony path at the foot of Mount Tuoro, the most widely accepted theory states that this name design ...
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