If not the most beautiful, the chateau is certainly the most formidable in the Loire Valley, a real defensive fortress, its black ramparts still forbidding despite having had their towers decapitated on the orders of Henri III.
The chateau is a true defensive fortress, if not the most beautiful of it's kind.
Dominating the western (and larger) side of the island, the quieter and only slightly less crowded hillside town of Anacapri derives a quasi-sleepy charm from its white villas along narrow lanes flowering with bougainvillea.