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Part X — Satellite Houses/LHL-S-198
LHL-S-198

Taverna Anema e Core

GROUP X · NIGHTCLUBS & DANCE INSTITUTIONS
Active record
PlaceCapri
FounderGuido Lembo, d. 2022
NowGianluigi Lembo, his son
The name*heart and soul*, in dialect
Hoursfrom midnight until dawn
Doorno dress code, no bouncer
StatusActive record · September 2026

1 · Position

Neapolitan music played live from midnight until the break of day, in a taverna whose name means *heart and soul* in the local dialect. Guido Lembo founded it and was, in the island's own phrase, the undisputed emperor of the Capri night until his death in 2022. His son Gianluigi has been the official voice since.

2 · ⚑ Why the absent door matters

Every other entry in this group controls entry — Les Caves du Roy, the Eagle Club, Zero Bond. Anema e Core does the opposite: no dress code, no doorman, locals and tourists and international stars on the same floor for more than twenty years. The Library records it because exclusivity here is produced by the music and the hour rather than by selection at the entrance, and that is a genuinely different mechanism from anything else in Part X.

3 · Candour

⚑ The founding date is not established here — the register's own row and the sources disagree — and the entry does not state one. The succession from Guido to Gianluigi is recorded under §21 as a line. A room that admits everyone still costs what it costs, and the absence of a door policy is not the same as the absence of a filter.

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