Marina Piccola(Spiaggia di Marina Piccola)

If you get hungry, there are many great restaurants near Marina Piccola.  El Merendero Snack Bar offers a variety of amazing snacks including sandwiches, salads, and pizza, along with a variety of desserts and beverages.  Da Gioia by La Palma Beach Club is an upscale restaurant that offers many great Italian dishes including barbecued chicken, lobster pasta, sauteed eggplants, and grilled octopus.  La Canzone del Mare Capri is another great beach club and restaurant that offers amazing Caprese dishes including seafood, barbecued meat, salads, seasonal dishes, and pasta.  Torre Saracena Restaurant and Beach Club offers many excellent local Caprese dishes, particularly seafood dishes and pasta.  If you are looking for another good and affordable nearby restaurant, Capri Pasta is a delicatessen that is known for serving a variety of amazing pastas, along with many other dishes including ravioli, savory pies, pizza, and focaccia.

If you are looking for a hotel near the beach, there are many great nearby options.  The 5-Star Il Capri Hotel is built in the Neo-Gothic style and it offers many amenities including a lounge, a garden, a pool, a terrace, a restaurant, and a bar.  The 4-Star Hotel Weber Ambassador is another great hotel that offers many amenities including a piano bar, multiple restaurants, multiple pools, a bar, a shuttle service to Piazzetta di Capri, a gym, a garden, complimentary breakfast, and rentals for boats and watersports equipment.  Another great hotel is the 4-Star Hotel della Marina Piccola that offers many amenities including a garden, a spa, a pool, a snack bar, a poolside bar, and complimentary breakfast.  A more affordable hotel is the 3-Star Hotel Nautilus that Capri offers many amenities including a courtyard, a garden, picnic areas, a snack bar, a bar, a rooftop terrace with sun loungers, rental facilities for watersports equipment, and massage services.  If you are looking for another good and affordable nearby hotel, La Musa Bed & Breakfast offers many great dishes including a terrace, a garden, outdoor sitting areas, and complimentary breakfast.

Although Marina Piccola Beach Capri has lifeguards, it does not have any other public amenities except a few nearby public restrooms.  However, there are multiple private beach clubs nearby that offer many amenities for a fee including access to restrooms, sunloungers, beach umbrellas, and rental facilities for boats and watersports equipment.

Marina Piccola offers many fun activities including sunbathing, beachcombing, swimming, paddleboarding, surf-skiing, jet-skiing, water-skiing, boating, snorkelling, scuba diving, kayaking, canoeing, and wildlife watching. 

This beach is ideal for beginner swimmers because the clear and warm turquoise water here usually has gentle waves.  In addition, snorkelers also visit this beach to explore its vibrant marine biodiversity.  You can also book a fun boat tour here from Capri Blue Boats – this private boat charter offers fun tours of the southern Capri shoreline.  

If you plan to swim, kayak, or paddle board here, we recommend being careful because the water here is known to have unpredictable rip currents and dangerous waves.

You can also explore the interesting rock formations around this beach that you can explore – one of these rock formations also has an archway.  If you like taking pictures with beautiful views, Marina Piccola offers amazing Instagram-worthy views of the southern Capri Italy shoreline, the Tyrrhenian Sea, and an iconic group of rock formations called the Faraglioni Rock Formations.  There is a beautiful church near the beach named Chiesa di Sant'Andrea, which was built in 1900 and was designed by painter Riccardo Fainardi.  It is dedicated to the Christian saint Andrew, who is also a patron saint of fishermen.

Marina Piccola does not offer wheelchair access to visitors with disabilities.

Getting to Marina Piccola is easy – the access stairs to this beach are located along Via Mulo.  However, parking near the beach can get difficult because there are very few street parking spaces nearby.  If you are planning to drive here, please note that non-local vehicles are not permitted here between Easter and mid-November. 

As an alternate access option, you can easily walk to this beach from a nearby town square named Piazzetta di Capri – it takes around half-an-hour to walk to this beach from Piazzetta di Capri.  In addition, you also pass through an iconic and winding road named Via Krupp while walking to the beach from the town square.  

If you want to travel by bus, you can also take a bus to the beach from Piazzetta di Capri – the bus ticket for Marina Piccola costs around € 2.5 and this bus operates between 6:30 am to 9:20 pm.  We recommend visiting these beaches early because they can get crowded quickly, especially between May and October.  In addition, please note that this beach has very low sunlight after 4 pm.

The name of the beach area – Marina Piccola – means “small marina” in Italian.  In addition, there is also a rock formation on the beach named Scoglio delle Sirene or the “Siren’s Rock” – this rock is the place where the mythical Greek hero Odysseus was supposedly seduced by female mythological creatures called Sirens.

There are many attractions near Marina Piccola.  Belvedere Cannone – also called Belvedere di Punta Cannone – is a popular observation area that offers spectacular views of the Capri shoreline and the Tyrrhenian Sea.  In addition, the area near this viewpoint was also called "Piazzetta Degli Artisti" or “the Artists’ Square” because it was frequented by many German artists – in addition, there was also a cannon emplacement here in the early 19th century.  Piazzetta di Capri – also called Piazza Umberto 1 – is a small piazza that has a lively and festive ambience and it also offers many interesting shopping stores, bars, and restaurants – in addition, there are also many interesting landmarks around the piazza including an old clock tower and the church of Santo Stefano.  Giardini di Augusto – also called The Gardens of Augustus – is a botanical garden that was commissioned by German industrialist Friedrich Alfred Krupp in the early 20th century.  This garden has beautiful terraces and it also has many beautiful types of flowers and plants including dahlias, brooms, and geraniums – it also has a statue of Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin.  

Villa San Michele is a beautiful museum that was built as a residential house in the late 19th century by Swedish physician Axel Munthe – this museum has beautiful gardens and it also has a large collection of Ancient Egyptian, Roman, and Ertuscan artifacts.  In addition, this house also hosts many fun cultural events.  If you are looking for another attraction near the beach, La Scala Fenicia – also called the Phoenician Steps – is a popular staircase consisting of 921 stairs that was initially built by local Ancient Greek settlers – this staircase was the main mode of transportation between the Capri’s main port Marina Grande and the Anacapri region till a proper road was constructed in 1874.  The staircase offers amazing views of the Caprese landscape and there is a church near the top of the staircase named the Chapel of San Michele.