# Via Krupp
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{{Short description|Walking path in Capri}}
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thumb|Location of Via Krupp on the south coast of Capri near Marina Piccola
'''Via Krupp''' is a historic [hairpin turn](/source/hairpin_turn) paved footpath on the island of [Capri](/source/Capri), connecting the [Charterhouse of San Giacomo](/source/Certosa_di_San_Giacomo) and the [Gardens of Augustus](/source/Gardens_of_Augustus) area with [Marina Piccola](/source/Marina_Piccola). Commissioned by the German industrialist [Friedrich Alfred Krupp](/source/Friedrich_Alfred_Krupp), the path covers an elevation difference of about {{Convert|100|m|ft|abbr=on}}.[{{cite web|url=http://www.capri.com/en/s/augustus-gardens-via-krupp|title=Capri: Augustus Gardens - Via Krupp|access-date=2010-10-11}}]
Built between 1900 and 1902, Via Krupp was ostensibly a connection for Krupp between his luxury hotel, [Grand Hotel Quisisana](/source/Grand_Hotel_Quisisana), and Marina Piccola, where his marine biology [research vessel](/source/research_vessel) lay at anchor. Secretly, however, this path also conveyed him to the Grotta di Fra Felice, a [grotto](/source/grotto) where sex orgies with local youths took place. When the scandal surfaced, Krupp was asked to leave Italy in 1902.[{{cite book|title=The Arms of Krupp: The Rise and Fall of the Industrial Dynasty that Armed Germany at War|first=William|last=Manchester|year=2003|isbn=0-316-52940-0|publisher=Back Bay Books|page=231–232}}]
Since 1976, Via Krupp has been closed most of the time due to the danger of [falling rocks](/source/falling_rocks).