Capri's panoramic via Krupp reopens to the public on Saturday after a restoration lasting more than 30 years.
The official reopening will take place at 7pm but all day related events will take place and the celebration will be capped by an evening performance by German actress Hanna Schygulla at La Certosa, the island's ancient monastery.
The events, some of which will last a year, are being sponsored by local tourism agencies and cultural associations along with Germany's consulate in Naples and the city's branch of the Goethe Institute.
The Via Krupp was commissioned and paid for in the early 20th century by Friedrich Alfred Krupp, a member of the German steel dynasty, and links the Gardens of Augustus to the Marina Piccola.
The pedestrian road was designed and built by the engineer Emilio Mayer, who cut through the rock and created a series of hairpin bends which, when seen from above, appear to almost overlap.
Mayer's genius is also evidenced by the ease with which people can walk up the hill, a vertical distance of over 100 meters and a total length of about a kilometer.
Roberto Pane, the late Italian renaissance and baroque architecture professor and critic, once observed that Via Krupp was an example that ''even a road can be a work of art, not just metaphorically speaking, but in the true aesthetic meaning of the word''.
Via Krupp was closed in 1976 due to falling rocks from the mountain above.
