Lisa Sciandra set out on a journey to learn more about her Italian roots. Retrace her steps, beginning with the clues in her grandmother’s home, to finding her cousins through social media, and finally, to their joyful reunion in Italy this spring.

At this spectacular site in central Capri, on sheer cliffs dropping to the Bay of Naples, the second Roman emperor Tiberius built a vacation retreat—or perhaps a political hideaway—in the first century.