Villa Panaker

Arold Paanakker, a rich Dutch diplomat, arrived in Capri at the time of the Second World War, driven by his passion for botany.

He bought, an old colonial house in Anacapri and at the time of baptizing his new house completely renovated, he remembered a nice anecdote happened in the alleys of Naples; after giving a generous elemonisa to an old woman, she greeted him with a dialectal expression of blessing: “A maronn t’accompani” and this was the name he chose for his house.

He prayed to his Austrian painter and woodcut artist Hans Paule to draw the effigy of the Madonna and then had it wrought iron by an artisan of the island and applied it on the entrance gate of the villa.

Today this gate is still owned by the villa.