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Casa Solitaria is a national historic house built between 1907 and 1910 on the island of Capri (Naples, Italy) by Edwin Cerio(1875–1960), a prominent Italian writer, engineer, architect, historian, and botanist.

Surrounded by cliffs and mediterranean plants, isolated yet a few minutes away from Capri’s vibrant central piazzetta, it overlooks the most famous rocky stacks in the Mediterranean, the Faraglioni. Their particular shape and the legends that hover around them make them magical and evocative places. Homer, in the Odyssey, describes the stacks as the boulders that the Cyclops Polyphemus threw at Ulysses. In the Aeneid, Virgil speaks of it as the meeting place of the siren : from these imposing rocks came their sweet song that enchanted the sailors.

Edwin Cerio built the house without predetermined plans, together with the skills and feelings of local masons, so that each window would become “a painting signed by God”. It filled it with lilies and thistles ceramic floors, and quotes inspired by the biblical Song of Songs’ poetry.

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, founder of the Futurism movement in 1909, and credited  with spurring the rise of italian modern architecture and city planning, described Casa Solitaria as one of the first futurist house of Italy for its verticality, its acoustic, spatial and visual innovations.