Close to the Gardens of Augustus in the center of the town of Capri is Certosa di San Giacomo. Founded in 1371, it was sacked and burned in 1553, and abandoned after 1807.
But at its height, this Carthusian monastery dominated the island. The church has a Gothic doorway, 17th-century frescoes, and two cloisters.
The convent holds the Museo Diefenbach, a collection of works by German Art Nouveau and Symbolist painter Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach, who lived on Capri from 1900 to 1915.
