(Lacco Ameno 1909-Rome 1964). Major General. At an early age he moved with his family toTaranto, where his father, Marshal, serving in the Navy. After the first studies in 1929 he entered the Academy of Infantry and Cavalry of Modena. On January 22, 1941, in command of the Armoured Division Ariete, left for Africa Northern Italian. On the battlefield was heroic fighter, driver of missions, earning several decorations, including the German Iron Cross II class, that on the contrary he stepped and threw away when there was the massacre of the Fosse Ardeatine. On May 7, 1942, King Vittorio Emanuele III conferred upon him the honor of Knight of the Order of the Star of colonial Italy. During the Olympic Games in Rome in 1960, he held the command of the Military Group. The town of Lacco Ameno has decided to name a street.

(Ischia 1917-1989). Owner who has given great impetus to the maritime communications between the islands and the mainland. Since he was child, he showed a great inclination for the sea. He learned to fly the first Ondina, in service for links Ischia and Naples. When the island of Ischia began to develop in the field of tourism, Agostino Lauro initiated the establishment of the shipping company that will become in time one of the largest and important one of the Mediterranean Sea, in particular by helping to facilitate more communication between the island and the of Ischia and the mainland. After the Freccia del Golfo (1948), a mass of war adapted to passenger transport, from the mid-1950s is a succession of acquisitions: the Celestina, the Angelina, Rosaria, the Salvatore Lauro, the Agostino Lauro, Settebello ... There is then also the gateway to the hydrofoils, which have considerably strengthened the maritime links. In 1968 began the connections between Naples and Palermo and then moving on Brindisi - Corfu. Appointed Cavaliere del Lavoro in 1974

The gallant coffee, as was called by Elsa Morante, owner of the International Bar of Forio, populated especially in the years 1945/1960 by celebrated personalities (Italians and foreigners artists and writers) who used to stay in Ischia. She was inspired by the poet W. Auden for the character of Baba the Turk by Stravinsky, also in a poem entitled The International Bar concludes:

Naples by birth (1920), Ischian by maternal lineage, has always had a great love for Ischia and has developed an intense activity for the island. From 1952 to 1956 he was director of EVI, until April 1964 and then president of the organization itself, significantly contributing to setting and problem solving, as well as the tourism and economic development, in a period that saw just the realization of many works. He founded and directed the monthly Ischia l’Isola Verde (1949-1952) and the fortnightly, along with Saverio Barbati, The Gulf (1953-1954), and then Letter from Ischia (1962), title taken after various times, in 1959 he published a Guide of Ischia island; provident to establish the necklace publications the Notebooks of the green island. To him we owe also the establishment of the Friends of the island of Ischia and the Nautical Club of Forio. He has held important posts also employed by the Italian Radio and Television.

(Serrara Fontana 1852-1933). Hermit of Epomeo, "philosopher rude and uncommunicative", which, after 42 years, was forced to leave the hermitage after a measure of Serrara Fontana that a group of islanders, in an appeal to the citizens and authorities, called "violation of law by the guardians of the law". In 1926, after two years, he was recalled and brought back to Epomeo, where he hosted and Carbonari climbers, tourists and carpenters, poets, generals and princes (the king Vitt. EmanueleIII), "offering everyone the same straw bed and the same glass of hard liquor, at dawn, as the mist that rises from the valley brings out the tops of the mountain like a sea of gray rocks blacks".

((Casamicciola 1844-1898). Ordained a priest in 1866, he became pastor of a Casamicciola destroyed by the earthquake of 1883, in which he too was miraculously pulled from the rubble, and devoted his life to his country with an assiduous pastoral, with dedication and tireless hard work and love for the needy. Much has also worked for the reconstruction of the parish church. He published several works, including a Life of Our Lord Jesus Christ. Start the cause of beatification in 1991, he was declared Venerable in May 2002 by the decree on April 23 2002, reported in the Proceedings of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, in which, among other things, says: “(Morgera) led the people in the ways of God not only through the work of his sacred ministry, but also with the holiness of his life, became an example of his flock. To exercise in the best possible way the mission entrusted to him by the Church with constant mind followed the example of the Good Shepherd, both in words and deeds striving to become another Christ. Constantly, generously and spiritual joy cultivated Christian and priestly virtues. He shone especially for faith, hope and charity. With mind and heart embraced the truths revealed and the Magisterium of the Church”.

(Rome 1921-Ischia 1994). Lecturer in Medical Hydrology at the University La Sapienza of Rome, was a leading figure in the field of spa island and as a director of the Centro Studi P. Malcovati of Lacco Ameno and medical director of spas in Ischia, Lacco Ameno and Casamicciola, both for his publications on aspects of the thermal waters of Ischia, including The Island of Ischia, health and beauty guide thermal treatments (1991), also translated into German. He has also published My Yemen, an outspoken autobiographical insight, a natural flavor Roman, as he used to say, fourteen years old Yemeni (1955-1968).

(Ischia 1870-1960). Came to light in the Villa dei Bagni, at the age of fifteen he entered the seminary, where he treated his preparation by constant study and passionate. He was ordained priest in 1897 and began to teach Latin and Greek, never abandoning his aspiration to pursue higher education in his favorite subjects, at a time when the church authorities were not as likely to allow priests to the frequency of the universities. It strove constantly to the increase of the public schools on the island, as well as for the culture in general. In 1915, it was his initiative to open a school and thus was born the Vittoria Colonna (housed in the convent of St. Antonio), where students flocked from all over the island. In 1939 he opened the Istituto Magistrale Ferrante d'Avalos operating until 1949, when it was created a senior high school. Established the Library Antoniana. In 1944, with other friends, he founded the Center for Studies of the island of Ischia, which held the presidency until 1958. He was the author of numerous publications on the island of Ischia, as well as director of periodic success (La Cultura, especially with historical themes, and La Vedetta del Golfo): La storia di uno scoglio (1956), Il più bel fiore d'Enaria (1905), Nuptialia Isclana (1907), La Diocesi d'Ischia (1948), and various others. Known his encouragement to the young generation to know the land, to be able to love.

(Lacco Ameno 1766-1852). Ordained a priest, he was for a time treasurer of the Parish of SS. Annunziata Lacco, then passed into the Archbishop's Curia of Ischia. In Lacco Ameno also held the office of justice of the peace from 1828 to 1833, the district had Pannella a villa where many travelers staying in the first half of the XIX century, including several monarchs. The building was built around 1616 by Francesco De Siano, who was also a priest, who used it for a summer residence. On the death of Tommaso, the villa was divided between the co-owners and part continued to function as dump. Then the earthquake of 1883 caused the collapse of the building.

Born in 1921in Oratino in the province of Campobasso, where his father, the Ischian Aniello, was doctor. Composer, author, arranger, singer and guitarist, in his youth he was also player of the team Ischia. In Naples in the mid-1940s he began to sing the classic Neapolitan song, in Ischia he met Romano Mussolini with other friends formed a band that was performing at La Conchiglia in Forio. In 1953 he opened in Ischia with the architect Sandro Petti the Rangio Fellone, which will be for a decade the hottest nightspot frequented by the international jet-set holiday in Ischia. The songs were L'ammore mio è... frangese; ; Na voce, na chitarra e 'o poco 'e luna, Chitarra mia napoletana. In 1954, he played and sang in London for Queen Elizabeth II, during a reception hosted by the Italian Embassy, among those present Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh, Anthony Eden, Vittorio De Sica, Peter Ustinov. In 1960 Angelo Rizzoli wanted him to Pignatiello, another popular haunt of Lacco Ameno. He also wrote music for films. He died on August 6, 1994 while he was traveling by train to his native country, Oratino.

(Lacco Ameno 1923-1995). Degree in Literature and Philosophy, he practiced first as a teacher and then principal. At the same time he came early in the political arena, becoming mayor of Lacco Ameno only at the age of twenty-three years (1946), a position he retained, except for a few brief interruptions, for over forty years. At to its mandate administrative are related significant moments in the country, as the great tourist development.

This town takes its name from two main villages that comprise it, the one located on the southern summit of Mount Epomeo, and the other halfway. This town is called with a romantic simile, Switzerland of the island of Ischia, both for its mountain posture, both for the industry of his mountain sheep. These two villages are a brotherhood, and the joint nature, and the organic civil and military administration, divided into two parishes in the ecclesiastical branch.
These two villages in ancient times were not that busy campaign by farmers and shepherds, and had only one parish, and was that one of Fontana, the oldest part of the island. In the administrative side, with their small houses accessories, the other lands of this island from the town or castle of Ischia depend. As the population grew throughout the island and in process of time Serrara Fontana formed the third part.
In 1806 these two villages bought their administrative autonomy, and the consortium was raised to joint third class.
From a historical-geographical dictionary of 1802 we get that house on the island of Ischia Fontana joined withSerrano had a population of 700 souls.
Currently the population of the town meeting ascends, according to official statistics, to 1793 souls, but by collecting accurate information from authoritative sources, at 1869 inhabitants, who are divided into farmers, shepherds and landowners sea-settlers.
This town is bordered from the east met with the town of Forio, from noon to the sea and with the City of Testaccio, from the north with that of Casamicciola, in the west with that of Forio. Begins its territory to the Cross of the Colajacono at Ciglio, ends in the valley Bellarita in Moropano.
Today it has become common in the sixth grade, belonging to mandment of Ischia.

The town of Lacco is located at the northern part of the island, bordered to the west with the towns of Forio, Casamicciola to the east, with the same two cities at noon, and with the sea to the north.
Looking this city, from Monte Vico, presents to the eye in the form of an amphitheater: by one hand, it is swallowed by the waves, another side there are the hills of Castanito, Pannella, of Mezzania, and the promontory of the bush Monte Vico, and the more modest of Ebdomade and the lido, which close a semi-circle occupied by the extensive plains planted vineyards and charming villas. It ends on one side at the foot hills shaded by clumps of little selveti and the other side is formed by the extensive sea washed by the waves along its northern extension. The districts Pannella, Mezzania, Monte-House, House-Let, Mud, Cesa, Capital, and others, are included within this small town.
The etymology of the name Lacco, De Siano derives from the Greek pencil in Italian stone, or stony place, and, in fact, he argues: throughout Lacco was - perhaps at his time, or before - full of large masses of white tuff, which although they are broken, in large quantities for use in the factory, there are still especially a fungus that is the figure of the great well located in the sea not far from the shore, which serves mooring and shelter for ships. The Genoese in 1798 called this rock Lacco the very expressive name for the name of the place.
In 1863 they were invited all municipalities in southern Italy to bring those changes, which they believed appropriate, to the ancient names of their cities. The municipality of Forio, believed to add to this, the Royal Decree was authorized the qualifier Ameno and was authorized to call Lacco-Ameno, a name officially preserved.
Considering the veil that covers fables, myths, and traditions of thousands of centuries, and wanting to scrutinize the monuments on the territory of Lacco presents us, we must assume that the first Phoenician colonies to the latest British invasion occurred in 1809, most part, even if you do not want to tell all, they had to arrive to the comfortable and spacious beach of Lacco, and because its largest navy, and because of more secure anchoring.
In fact, legend has it that the Trojan fleet will be repaired in the womb of Marine Lacco, and that colony has occupied this plain with its leader, with the promontory of Monte Vico.
The physicist Dr. Francesco De Siano, native of Lacco, in his operetta, argues that the Greek monuments excavated at that site, the headquarters of the Greek colonies was Lacco, situated in the middle of the island.
But beyond the legends and opinions of local writers, the statue of Hercules, etc. there are many stories to indicate that the first colonies that have occupied this site. The Greeks of the early expeditions, establishing their main headquarters in the valley of Negroponte and other points are stretched along the coast, from Punta Perrone in Monte Vico as it is also the opinion of Jasolino and Oltramontano. The Syracuse who stared at their main center in the Land of Forio lasted until the marina of San Montano Monte Vico and on top of which, built a military bulwark that the eruption of Caccavelli could not destroy.
The famous writer Capaccio argued that the inscriptions on the sepulchral urns, and the names of those extinct, are too truthful testimony, the Romans living in this pleasant beach.
But if all these ancient colonies have landed, have concentrated in our coverage of the territory, we have arguments that have never established a permanent dwelling, perhaps because the place is too exposed, just repaired, or not suitable to their industries or professions, or perhaps because, having planted their cemetery, their burial, in the most romantic and melancholy plains, and on the hill of Monte Vico, and for veneration for the dead, is a sentiment of religion or superstition, they stopped their main headquarters in Forio, but for a place of worship. This place was used and held in awe, the seat of their gods and Penates for the district, was inhabited by the souls of the deceased and from the invisible spirit of their patron, for fear of seeing it was so polluted by new adventurers, was allocated a detachment stationed on Mount Vico, where they were discovered scrap vessels and tiles used in the usual roofs of houses, as well as caves plastered like a tank of oil, or rather of wine and jars.
However if scrap of old factories have been found on Mount Vico, even if there have been houses on the hills of Fundera, House Monti and boundaries, there are signs of old factories along the plain of the sea. So the last part had to be lived. When the pirates disappeared before the fishermen and sailors, then the wealthy bourgeoisie began to build their homes in this pleasant location by the sea.
Too long we have told about these historical details, so we move on to more recent times and say, that the municipality of Ameno Lacco if the timing was very kind of the place of worship and the worship of ancient colonies, as we mentioned, in times of Christianity was regarded as the depositary of the body of a saint. In this regard, here is what he is saying the same De Siano Lacco: One can not deny that, and still less in the beginning of the fourth century, arrived in this island from Africa to protect the body of the mistress of the same, virgin and martyr St. Restituta, who arrived in a boat in the bloodless shore of the sea of small breast S.Montano called Le Ripe, which are still there as of sand, where she was received and transported to the place, where is her church, and convent of the Carmelite Fathers together, the aquifer south of Monte di Vico already noticed ...

The position of Barano and its farmhouses is unique on the island: it looks like a Mediterranean country, because far from the sea, in a prominent arrangement, between hills and mountains, valleys and fertile and lush plains. The campaigns of Moscardino, Maisyo, Belvedere, Cufo, Cesa, the Tower, Casabona, Cottage-and between-Moropano adjacency of other Cannavino, Tuoro Valley, Terzano, Finestra, make it more cheerful and smiling this interesting town. Indeed the air that you breathe in these places is very healthy: the houses are mostly one-storey but decent, clean with multi-storey building and buildings that contrast with the rest of this site are private dwellings. As equally elegant lodges are located between those campaigns.
The buildings of the main center of the town giving an air of distinction to the site, exposed in a beautiful location, explains to a horizon view of the picturesque, and beautiful by two points south-east and south.
The territory of Barano also has an ancient history, older than it seems, since the fertility of the soil, and its topographic position, sheltered between the hills and mountains.
This natural advantage attracted the early settlers, Syracuse, Neapolitans, and Romans, and indeed at that time, the districts-where today Moropane- Barano, and Testaccio, were inhabited, and believed to be in reputation, for pure air, and the renowned and revered its sources of mineral-rich waters, which we regard as the oldest, and first used. We said on these famous waters because they were not inferior to those estimated very famous Umbria: venerated because under the protection of Apollo and the Nymphs nitrous, which gave name to the more specious source of this district, which was spoken of nitrous and then Nitroli. The bas-reliefs carved in the neighborhood confirmed this antiquity.
The mellowness of the soil attracted its ancient inhabitants, the air pure and balmy, that can enjoy healthy water that flows of nitrous, which was tested as portentous for some diseases, it is high PEL meal; for comfortable living - attracted new inhabitants, so that this land was first settled more than, so that Jasolino, who wrote a short account of this island in 1587 saying that after the earth Forio, was the house and no longer inhabited the island at that time was joined by a parish in Testaccio.
But there was a time that the district Barano remained depopulated and it was after the eruption of 1301: came the other in which the same district, and the land surrounding the ancient lost importance, and it was the fall of the Aragonese.
In 1544 these houses were also looted, like the rest of Serrara, the land of Forio and Panza, by the pirate Barbarossa, was most miserably and fearfully Barano thrown in squalor. Its inhabitants who survived were scattered around the island, some setting in tower somewhere in that range in elevation of land, other inane Gottaviello heights of the hill, and the other working days in those campaigns, the evening went to shelter in the castle of Ischia became the only refuge of islanders, to dodge the slavery, and violence of the Saracens.

In the western side of the island of Ischia, the country washed by the sea for the whole extension, surrounded by verdant plains, backed by the mountain that sits on the hills in the most luxurious and comfortable posture, flanked by two current volcanic, one to the north, another south; that country is called Forio.
It is bordered to the east and noon with the City of Fontana-Serrara; to the south with that of Ischia, to the north with that of Forio, on the west with the sea.
The main roads that put this town in communication, capture other neighbors are three: to the north and ends at Cavallara Lacco-Ameno, that of Fango to the north-east coast for half connects this town with Ischia, in the South that leads to the village of Panza, and continues to Serrara Fontana for steep climbs.
Beautiful, pleasant, are its breasts, its headlands, its bridges, and that we shall describe below these details.
Forio was called by Jasolino Fiorio saying: “Forino said by others, but by us Fiorio because after the destruction of many houses and castles that flourished, being the eldest of others throughout the island, well-equipped with twelve towers, with artillery , and with many people to fly, beautiful site of abundant wine, and excellent fruit”.
And De Siano also added the name of Forio etc. in Italian fertile: the name given to this place, because unlike other places of the island’s most fertile land to be the largest in the plan with the low hills, and therefore most suitable for growing and more fertile. Of this there can be no doubt, being also that until the present (1798), for this reason that the Earth looks like a city that contains the largest population of the island, multiplying the most fertile places in the competition of the inhabitants, the population is well all located together on a spit of land etc.
Forio includes: 1 main center of the country. 2 The village of Monterone. 3 The scattered houses. 4 The village of Panza.
In this arrangement the City, towns, countryside, the villas, the culminating point, from which begins the demarcation of Forio, Fasano called the east, below the summit Epomeo: the right side and northern Europe, the lowest point, the Cala di S. Montano, from which the proceeding is prolonged westward currents Zaro, or Caruso. From the mid-day the demarcation point from the boundary is called the Cross of Cola Jacono old farmer of Socchivo.
The first Greek colonies dwelt still Forio, in the opinion of De Siano.
These first Greek colonies, which settled on this plain, were the Doric, ie Siracuse, remained on the island under the Pacio Nimpsio Pacillo and Maio’s orders, after the defeat of lands.
Such an opinion was recorded by d’Aloysio, and repeated by the Anonymous Ultramontane.
From the foot of the hill to the valley of St. Emperor Montano, was a fertile and smiling plain: the Syracusans allured to that site, and while the enchanting beach subjected to the Emperor, erected their temple to Venus -whose white marble statue was discovered in 1792, and brutally destroyed.
From the opposite side, on top of the promontory of Vico, there was the wall of the fortress, which was submitted to the city to look west and dominate the existing cemetery in the subject valley, near the sea, to the entrance of town on highway as was the custom among Greeks, Romans, and hence one to establish their cemeteries.
The eruption of Caccavelli drove this colony, the same buried the city under the lava of Zaro and Marecoco.
The elements calmed down and ran the Partenopei, then the Romans.
The monuments discovered, the buried jars, the voices interfered in Latin Doric dialect, proved that the Neapolitan and Roman lived there.
Came the Sicilians, at the Julius Caesar time, bragging rights of ownership of the land occupied by the Neapolitans, having expelled Syracuse, they demanded the release. Julius Caesar had a right to their claim, and then the Sicilians occupied this country.
In this regard we report the d’ Aloysio’s words. Forio was originated by the Sicilians, who found a climate suited to their genius, they stopped there and multiplied, and called it Forio.
They broke the barbarians, these plains were devastated, the survivors took refuge in the mountains and hills.
With the Normans and Swabians remained with the impoverished island, and so the Syrians built churches, and multiplied, providing proof of indomitable perseverance and value.
Succeeded the Angevin dynasty, Sicily was touched at Vespers, and the children of Sicilians also rioted, calling for these plains: the French out.
The fertility of the place liked the new usurpers, and while the Charles II solders devastated these fields, the old settlers did not move away, with the eruption of 1301.
But back in 1305 and meeting votes, not to have been damaged in the property and in person, by the eruption of the cremation fire, they built churches and chapels in S. Antonio Abate.
The Spaniards occurring with the Aragons and Catalans, Sicilians, ran to plow or to occupy these vineyards and Lopez, the Galiz, the Jonchez planted here and with them ran to Corsica, and then others from Malta, which also took the House from the native land, and were called the Maltese, others from Matera in Apulia, took the surname of Mattera, and Matarese, others from Sorrento, Amalfi, Tuscany, are the Sorrentino, the Amalfitano, the Florentine, they give with their family name the first said, today House Jonchese, House Corso, House Calise, House Mattera, House Maltese, House Fiorentino.

The Aragonese Castle

The Aragonese castle

The name of this town is full of contrasts. Solenandro called the quarter-Mezula House. Jasolino Casanizzola. In-House Aloysio Nisola saying that the name taken by a matron named Eritrese Nisula, who because crippled, was left there by the fugitives Eritresi, and healed virtue of mercy of these waters.
De Siano called her Casamice saying that this name is composed of two voices, one Greek and one Latin, Greek word mica means House, added after the first. Mica from the Latin Sordem lavat totam, imagery, arose from the fervid genius of the writer, alluding to the miraculous virtues of these waters, that arise therein, designed to remove and wash all ailments.
We do not accept any of the sources, because we think they are all apocryphal, and implausible or fantastic.
In regard we support the view that the old name, the name of Casamicciola, was given by those who first built the first house of pleasure, or home health in this country, became uninhabited and unnamed, that indicate it to the city where land was to dwell, called the Casa-in-IUSA, or casa-in island, Casanisula, etc..
The City of Ischia lies on the northern side of the island, at the foot of the severe side Epomeo, at the base of the pear and Catreca.
The name comes from Pera because from this place the peasants carried on their shoulders the clay, and the fagots at the marina of Casamicciola.
Catreca means locus asper. These are the etymologies of these other two districts dates by Ziccardi.
Throughout the southern extension of this municipality is backed by the chain of mountains and hills. On the northern side is bathed by the sea on the east bordering municipality of Ischia, in the west with that of Lacco, at noon with Barano.
Casamicciola is divided into two main parts: one is called Upper Casamicciola, the other Lower Casamicciola.
Upper Casamicciola includes within its reach all those lands in the hills that rise above the center of town, like those of the Stone, House-Moriello, Majo, Monte-House, House-Castagna, Castanita, Spur-house, etc…
Lower Casamicciola includes and S. Pasquale citizens, Perrone, the petroni, Piazza Bagni and Marina.
This city though was extended by mountainous terrain and hills, although it was provided and intersected by the most beautiful, comfortable and spacious streets of the island, nicely shaded by plane trees and acacias, is divided into many neighborhoods, in different buildings, some of which are planted on an enchanting hills, surrounded by vines and shrubs, while others built in romantic valleys, watered by the steamy mineral water, and shaded by coppice forests, and other points of focus in their industries, which are explained in a dignified disorder, on a tongue of land which forms the meandering beach lido.
Such a romantic and varied position of the City and the building so divided, is isolated, the town of Ischia resorts, recreational boating, the campaign for the stranger, and for the sick.
This country is made more beautiful because it presents in its different districts, varied scenes.

He was Count and lived in Ischia in 1783 to cure himself. Thanks to him and King Ferdinand IV arrived in Ischia and came back the next year to fish and hunt. King liked the population of Ischia.

Famous painter, it is believed that her visit to Ischia took place in 1773 and a subsequent stay in 1787.

Came to Ischia in 1638, he tells in his book "MUNDUS SUBTERANEUS". He surprised a lot of variety and wealth of thermal springs.

It was one of the first foreign guests who informed us on Ischia after the return of King Ferdinand of Naples. In May of 1802 he stayed at an inn in the village of the castle, had a warm welcome and a passable bed for the night. Thanks to Benkowitz, who was on the island to visit an officer to guard the castle, we have no information on the prisoners, but not on hardened criminals but young children of noblemen who were imprisoned in the castle, so that they repent of some decisions inconvenient for parents.

French doctor came to Ischia, around 1585, so interested in the thermal waters. He studied the effects, he wrote a book on spas and on the healing power of water.

Famous French painter, arrived in Ischia at the end of 1790, with friends. Ischia, fascinated her, since the arrival and she wrote "one of the most beautiful impressions on arrival I felt it was the sight of a large number of houses perched on the mountain and clearly illuminated, which is offered to the eye as a second heaven". His excursion on Epomeo was no less because the sight was delighted and said that surely the poem was to be born there.

Crown prince son of Augustus III Elector of Saxony and King of Poland. The young prince was suffering from a severe paralysis, in 1738 came to the island for treatment. He made thirty-two baths swimming in the Gurgitello, after the young prince could move about only with the help of the stick.

Principe ereditario figlio di Augusto III principe elettore di Sassonia e re di Polonia. Il giovane principe soffriva di una gravissima paralisi, nel 1738 venne ad Ischia per cure .Egli fece trentadue bagni nell'acqua del Gurgitello, al termine il giovane principe poteva spostarsi solo con l'aiuto del bastone.

Friedrich was Count and Danish Ambassador in Berlin. Nicolovius friederich son was majoring in theology. He made a trip to Italy with his family. The hand of the Count is no description available in four volumes of the whole trip, while Nicolovius
had written a stimulating treatise on Ischia titled "DIE ISCHIESEN". In April 1792 the Count and his son Nicolovius made their first excursion one day to Ischia and they were impressed by the hospitality and kindness of people. Returned to the island in the second half of August and the first week of September of the same year. He stayed in Casamicciola at a winemaker, saw dance the tarantella dance Naples, in the most beautiful Nicolovius said. He loved the island so much, he wrote in a letter “Fortunata small island population! The sea separates you from the mainland. Remains with your costumes, your devotion small island people! Way joy will not abandon you and from generation to generation faithful to your ancestors bring joys bigger and bigger”.

It was one of the first guests who stayed on the island for months and which has remained a detailed diary of the island. The diary contains a varied disorder news about all that Berkeley has seen and lived what people told him customs, the manners of administration and ecclesiastical structures.

He was an English traveler, in 1610 on his return from a long journey stopped in Naples and made a small visit to Ischia but told very little.

Doctor involved in spa facilities, knows Ischia in 1786. As a guide was the priest and doctor Francesco de Siano. In the four days spent in Ischia, Marcard visited the modest thermal structure of Lacco Ameno, stoves and hot vapors of San Lorenzo. He climbed Epomeo and was enchanted by the wonderful panorama.

French Dominican Monk who traveled a lot and was able to express beautifully the intimate observations of everyday life. Unfortunately on Ischia he describe anything in particular because he didn’t ever visited it, but passed in June 1711. On that occasion, his cocked hat remained at anchor in front of Forio and people came on the ship tell him something. They told him on good wine, fruit and that there were twenty-four priests in Ischia.

His presence on the island is known from a manuscript of sixteen pages found on a stall in Paris in 1850.

He was a reverend who traveled to Italy and also came to Ischia. In his book brings out the full beauty of the landscape and importance of thermal water. He wrote that the island can be considered very wealthy and thriving and is a place of health and pleasure.

Important archaeologist visited the island of Ischia in the spring of 1764.

He came to Ischia in 1700 as a companion of Mr. Cecill. The meager news starting with the information around the Mediterranean Sea, there is no other island that produces a wine so strong, then it comes to the hot springs and many spas that were used to the simple people, the people of respect. JOSEPH ADDISON was a famous poet and statesman, he traveled to Italy from 1701 al1703. His observations are collected in a book REMARKS ON SEVERAL PARTS OF ITALY',were published ten editions, but the visit of Ischia describes it quite poorly.

He was a noted poet and statesman, he traveled to Italy from 1701 to 1703. His observations are collected in a book "REMARKS ON SEVERAL PARTS OF ITALY ', were published ten editions, but the visit of Ischia describes it quite poorly.

A German theologian, a French physicist and brilliant investigator who formulated the law on the relationship between gas space, gas pressure and temperature. Both dealt with the geology of the island, measured for the first time, with the help of the barometer height Epomeo.

Came to Ischia in 1785, accompanied by his family, he rented an apartment in the palace of San Montano (Lacco Ameno). They were enchanted by the beauty of the island and the friendliness of its inhabitants. Duke hoped to improve his health using the thermal baths. Duchess charmed by the kindness of the inhabitants organized a joyous celebration.

Doctor from Basso Reno came to Italy to complete his studies on the anatomy and chemistry. In his free time he made many trips, where not only met many doctors but also studied the fauna and geology of the country. He was particularly interested in volcanism and warm water. In his book " DE CALORIS FONTIUM MEDICATORUM CAUSA, EORUQUE TEMPERATIONE, LIBRIDO, ET PHILOSOPHIS ET MEDICIS PERUTILES" published in 1558, gave a complete description of the boiling water and stoves of Ischia. For the first time appeared in the literature sudatario of Testaccio, the fumaroles of Monte Vico says that reached rowing a place, now called "Bagnitiello", where even the sea water was boiling. In Citara was surprised by the number of pits dug in the sand, which served as bathtubs because they are full of boiling water. One year after the publication of the book was named as personal physician to the court of Dusseldorf, where he remained until his death.

Born in 1777 in Flasch. In 1802 it made his desire to get to know Italy. In 1805 he was for the first time in Ischia, lived in Casamicciola at Sentinella. He met an old woman who took her by hand he said to her that she was sick and we would be healed, for strangers the water has extraordinary virtue while for the islanders had no healing power.

Born in 1765 in Grafentonna near Gotha, grew up in Denmark and at eighteen she married the banker state councilor Brun. Came to Ischia in July del1796, arrived at the Marina di Casamicciola with friends. She was at Sentinella "in pleasant solitude of nature". At around the time of sunset on the roof of saliva to assist, the steep walls of Epomeo that were illuminated by the last rays of sun the globe of fire, which was plunged into the sea, it was a wonderful show. Friederike was every night bathing in the Gurgitello, the effect was great pains were gone.

He wrote a travel book which was very significant for the revival of tourism in the eighteenth century. He writes that he found a good accommodation with a wonderful wide view. Hoare visited the island in an excellent way, in just six days, who stayed there, it is most dear to him from Epomeo view because the eye slips from the Head of Minerva to Cuma and the entire Gulf. Hoare concludes with an earnest appeal to all the artists and scholars their footsteps and leave the paths of Ischia guides because they find rest and meditation.

A confirmation of the fame achieved by Casamicciola for its warm healing waters whose also Giovanni Boccaccio made experience. He choose Ischia as a location of his Decameron. And since the early '500 the first thermal establishments became destination for who wants to cure himself, also came from far away. A phenomenon destined for growing in the following centuries.

He was a professor of mineralogy of the real body of artillery in Naples. His work of two volumes on the physical topography of Campania has a physical representation of Ischia. No doubt it was the best knowledge of the geology and mineralogy of the island, which had to cross to the fund during his excursions with watchful eyes to the most secluded places. On the small Pera plateau above Casamicciola, where he had his residence, came across the remains of a walled boiler when it was subjected to boiling the raw material. Before this industry was founded in Ischia in 1460, alum had to be imported from Asia Minor.

Medical anatomist, had aroused new life to the spa. Every year Isolino sent patients and personally came to follow, tried to improve the primitive structures. In 1586 was ready the first draft of his book on Ischia, in which he summarized his many experiences and the topography of the island and especially treated the individual sources and fumaroles. The Nitrodi source based on the book "De’ Rimedi Naturali che sono nell’isola di Pithecusa oggi detta Ischia".

German doctor, he stopped at the island for quite a long time. He said that the bathroom was better in Casamicciola, all the others were rough and dirty.

He came three times in Ischia. The first one in 1811-1812, the second one in 1820, the third one in 1844. He wrote on CONFIDENCES, that are stories. In one of these confidences says that he lives in the most beautiful island, on a promontory that rises from the sea and its slopes thrive forests to the sea. Lamartine writes poems about Ischia and here wrote the novel GRAZIELLA.

Son of Ernest Renan, we should have several sketches, and they are contained in a published work that the young man in the earthquake of 1883 in the Gazette of the fine arts. Ary Renan was most interested in the architecture of Ischia.

He came to Ischia in the company of Baron von Bunsen. He stayed for four days at Sentinella, went to Epomeo and crossed on foot or with donkeys all over the island, which is extremely attractive and pleasant.

He was a connoisseur of Ischia. In 1825 in Vienna he came a book titled "L'ISOLA D'ISCHIA NEL 1822". From the book you will learn the tourism of the twenties of the last century. The center of the beach life was Casamicciola, but the second Haller preference was Lacco, which offered the most pleasant stay.

He came to Ischia in the late twenties. He has a catalog of his works containing a series of paintings and drawings that were composed in Ischia.

Natural scientist and physician, philosopher and artist. He came to Ischia in the company of Prince Friedrich Saxon, visited the castle, where Carus witnessed a beautiful sunset. Also he came in Lacco where the streets were decorated for the feast of Santa Restituta.

She came to Ischia to the middle of 1817, was the eldest daughter of Wilhelm von Humboldt and suffered from nerve pain in the face, and that's why she was advised to come. Her condition improved in only nine days, so he could visit the island, I was enchanted by the wonderful scenery and a beautiful sea.

A native of Wurttemberg was a young architect. He arrived at the village of Ischia, in 1830 in the company of friends, they decided to climb immediately Epomeo. The view excited them much. His stay on the island lasted only one day, Roller pleased him very much, says he has a gentle nature, idyllic, beautiful and friendly, almost fairy.

Professor at the University of Berlin, came to Ischia and lived in the Piccola Sentinella and from here ran the island and from there it was interested in the animal and plant kingdoms of the hot springs. At a news conference, which was held at the Prussian Academy spoke on the forces of Piazza Bagni in Casamicciola, hot water that flows and oozes in different areas in the Valle del Tamburo and on the rocky walls of a hole of the same and that breaks the rock in clay mass.

He came to Ischia in February 1828, he came to Ischia where he stayed. Unfortunately there was an earthquake and Ramage, in his diary published in 1868, describes the damage and the cries of the poor people, they returned to Naples and informed of what the British colony, so were aid from Naples.

Haeckel had a bachelor's degree at the age of 25, he wanted to know the marine world. In June of 1859 Allmers know, a poet of East Frisia and landowner, and the two toured the island. Some of their trips were: on 'Epomeo offering a wonderful view on Mount Tabor with equally hot springs, Forio that drew Africa for his constructions.

He came to Ischia three times, he was a scholar and a connoisseur of semantic languages and cultures. He was in the hope that the hot springs of Casamicciola could release his arthritic pain that tormented him. He said that the place was charming, easy life, and believed that the bathrooms were really effective against rheumatic pains.

Writer, he had become famous for his novel "DIE EUROPAMUDEN". He came to Ischia in 1846, he found, he said, a good reception decent food and housing not too expensive. It was January when he rode via Fiaiano towards the summit and from there enjoyed a great panorama of breath he said, "embrace at a glance the big three beautiful bays of Gaeta, Naples and Salerno".

Painter, in his famous book Südfrüchte he tells his stay in Ischia. Pecht said Forio and Ischia were rarely visited by foreigners, he loved the surroundings of Forio. The population found it very kind and get along with them.

Giorgio Buchner, died at ninety, at his home in Ischia, on 04.02.2005 the legendary archaeologist who brought to light the "Nestor's cup", the first document of the Greek language, he illustrated with his discoveries and studies what you can define the starting point of the history of Ancient Greece. Born in Monaco of Bavaria, he graduated in Naples with a thesis on the prehistory and archeology of Ischia, but only in 1952 was able to begin his research in the valley of San Montano, Lacco Ameno, excavations which led to fundamental discoveries in the necropolis Greek eighth century BC, long remained inviolate.
The results of his excavations, defined Pitecusa "an indispensable bridge for the reconstruction of the history of the West", gave him an international reputation which did not change its habit of extreme confidentiality, privacy, hiding a passion uncommon for his work as an archaeologist, to whom he dedicated all his life. At the beginning the soil contamination of the Cup of Nestor, did not reveal the Greek inscription. Then the restorers rebuilt a bowl with geometric decoration, 10 high and 15 cm wide. On the outer surface appeared three verses graffiti shortly after processing, "Nestor this is the cup from which you drink well but whoever drinks from this cup will be immediately seized by the desire of Aphrodite the beautiful crown," a clear allusion to Homeric derivation. The "Nestor's cup" formed one of the tests, retracing the routes opened by the Mycenaeans, at the beginning of the eighth century. BC, Greek sailors chose the island of Ischia to set up their trade with the Etruscans, rich in metals, which dominated the Campania, but not only. The finding these scholars also the certainty that those men and island formed through the greatest gift that came from the eastern Mediterranean to the West: the alphabet. Discoveries and research for scholars Giorgio Buchner are authentic re-volution in knowledge related to Ancient Greece, but also those relating to ancient Italy.
In 1994, upon the completion of his eighty years, archaeologists David Ridgway and Bruno d'Agostino presented with their broader appreciation for the scholar, a volume written in his honor. The town of Lacco Ameno awarded him honorary citizenship.

He came to Ischia in 1834, came and lodged in the village of Ischia. He visited the hospital in Casamicciola Monte della Misericordia with its new facilities for sudatori and sand.

He came to the island for ten days. In the letters dated from Mandra from Ischia, he said that he felt at home, the sky and the sea calm, pleasant scenery and happy people.

He was a Danish poet, lived in Casamicciola. Holst said based on his experience in an accurate manner as was customary contract an engagement, as we entered into a marriage covenant. He attended the joyful celebrations sacred Holst rejoiced in the costumes of women and girls. His paper concludes with the assurance that the period in Ischia was to be counted among his happiest travel memories. Holst in Ischia met August Bournonville, who says in his biography MIN THEATERLIV, who had traveled all over the island and had risen Epomeo in his company.

Novelist known by the pseudonym of Stendhal. He made a one-day trip to Ischia in February 1811.

He was until his death the medical spa's most famous of the island. Born in Vevey in the canton of Vaud, he studied in Paris, became a doctor, and in 1830 settled in Casamicciola. The multifaceted and versatile doctor was also famous businessman, in the beautiful area called Castagneto he developed a "House of Health" that met the needs of the times.

He traveled with his family in October of 1827 from Milan to Florence. The following year he went with a felucca Genoa to Naples, then crossed the bay and came to Ischia, arrived at the village of Ischia, where the castle had a profound impression on Cooper, he wrote in his memoirs: "He offered us one scenario that was more like a fantastic picture that the reality of our everyday world".

Swiss, born in 1805 and in 1831 he was a former professor of natural history. He came to the island for its volcanic nature, lived to the baths (area near the present port). Upon his arrival he hastened immediately to the lava Arso, then climbed on the two nearby volcanoes, Rotaro and Montagnone. He also visited the castle where the interested among other things, the way how many prisoners were housed and the hospital meant for them.

Romantic poet who took a particular interest in biology and comparative anatomy. In June of 1824 he came to Casamicciola, he hoped, unfortunately in vain, to find in the spa remedy a stubborn pain.
The beauty of Ischia in the four months spent on the island, had only seen the entire scene that offered him the house. Especially in the evening, when the sky burned to the west, impressed him deeply. So it was, that told only of life with its simple and honest housemates and the visits that were made from time to time by the neighbors.

He came to Ischia in December 1820. There are three landscapes, representing all parts of the section Perrone - Lacco Ameno.

Born in the Rhineland, he studied philology and history and then taught in several German cities. He came to Ischia and spent most of the summer of 1834, he lived in Casamicciola. Mayer is one of the oldest visitors to Ischia, the only one who speaks of the 'ndrezzata, an ancient warrior dance performed with swords still in Barano; Mayer appreciates the charm of the island, wrote in his book that the other islands are only satellites of Ischia.

He was a well-known landscape painter, born in Paris in 1781. In 1824 he became general inspector of fine arts in Paris. His paintings and drawings can be found in many museums of France. Between 1824 and 1825 Count lived in Ischia, in Sentinella, crossed the island in all directions, painting and drawing.

Staying in Ischia in 1852 or in 1853, in Casamicciola in the inn "Casa Purgatorio". He said that the view he had was the most beautiful that the earth could offer to the human eye.

Painter, was in 1821 in Ischia. Joy emanates from his paintings for costumes so colorful time, but also the sentimental melancholy that never left him.

Lili and Bernhard Klein and Gustav and Wilhelmine Parthey are two pairs of newlyweds on their honeymoon in Naples and Ischia. Landed in Casamicciola and encamped at Sentinella. They hike Epomeo, climbed up the rope that was completely bare, but that vision (a green paradise flower surrounded from the large blue sea).

He belonged to affluent travelers of that time. He also visited Ischia, said it was a great angle and the pleasure of the stay was not without charm. In the evening return from hiking met groups of three or four people sitting in front of houses and sang to the guitar sound Neapolitan songs and other groups danced the tarantella. The Blessington defined these shows joyful and people were always kind.

He was a priest who published his travel memories in a book of two volumes. He calls himself a traveler seriously interested in looking with eyes open countries and people.

Paolo Buchner was born in Nuremberg, Bavaria, 12.4.1886 and died in Ischia on 19.10.1978. He will attend the University of Monaco graduated with a thesis on eteronomosomi of Orthoptera. In 1910, thanks to a scholarship, he comes to Naples to study his research at the zoological station in the city. The young scholar remains in the principal town for a year and he was able to do some hiking in our island. The trip to Italy will be the involuntary cause for which they will learn his future wife, Mrs. Miliana, a young student of fine arts of Gorizia. The young scholar will take Italian lessons from her marrying in 1913, the next year will be born their only son George, the future archaeologist. Paolo Buchner has a brilliant academic career, in 1927 bought land on the hill of St. Alessandro, here from 1928 to 1930 will build his house in Mediterranean style. Will settle permanently in Ischia in 1944. In 1939 he begins to have passion for to the past and the nature of the island of lschia and publish Stone houses in Ischia.
Paul Buchner with his works that have as their object of research the island of Ischia, can rightfully be part of that group of writers on the island, which over the centuries have devoted their studies to the knowledge of the scientific and historic green Aenaria. He had wanted to include during the break from its products and demanding scientific studies and significant experimental research, interest in the history, geology, archeology of the island of Ischia. The student investigates the natural history of our land and in 1943 held a conference at the University of Milan, which has as its object the formation and development of the island.
Paul Buchner also publish a History of the Baths of Porto d'Ischia well aware of the importance of the two sources Formiello secular and Fontana. In 1971, will still give a further contribution to realizing a monograph on Jacques E. Chevalley de Rivaz, the French-Swiss physician who prefer to remain in the Bourbon court giving a strong boost to our spas with a contribution that is at the forefront.
In 1944, together with Msgr. Buonocore and five other intellectuals of stature, will be one of the founders of the Study Centre on the island of Ischia.
Paul Buchner, got good recognition from many quarters for his contribution to scientific research, will confer the three degrees "honoris causa" (in medicine in 1958 in biological sciences in 1959 in Natural Sciences in 1960). In the quiet of the beautiful villa with magnificent vistas, this home made just for study and inspiration and to listen to the voices, born Gast auf Ischia conceived and developed in the 60s and published in 1968. The work can be considered the most tangible expression of that love at first sight that the student tried for this land still untouched.

The Swabian distinguished professor of law and leader of liberalism, in his recollections of life wrote about a trip to Ischia that he did with two other Germans in 1842. They landed at the Castle and took the road to the inn "Tenente." Mohl and his friends were enchanted by the extraordinary silence and tranquility of the island. In Forio had the opportunity to see women in their veils, jackets richly embroidered with gold thread and also many ornaments of gold.

Rudolf Pointer was born in Zadar in the former Yugoslavia in 1907, but has always lived in Graz (Austria) and Forio. Self-taught painter and drawing teacher, came to the attention of critics and scholars for his ability to represent an inner world rich in character, of surreal images, figures symbolic evocations fantastic. A beautiful art critic on painting Pointer was written by the artist Teresa Coppa in the fall of 1981 on the island of Ischia Weekly.

He was born in 1813 in Dorpat, the son of an erudite scholar, he studied philology and history in his homeland and continued his studies at the University of Berlin. He cme to Ischia in 1860, there are records in his diary on the island.

It was probably in Ischia in 1826, lived in Lacco at the noble Tommaso de Biasi. They were great days those who could spend Ludemann in Ischia, boat trips along the caves and rocks, swimming in the sea, hunting rabbits and pheasants. He climbed Epomeo to see the sunrise and describes it with refined words.

Bergsoe had graduated in zoology at the University of Coopenghen, was a writer who spoke of his life in a fun way.
Ibsen had known him during a stay in Rome, the two shook very deep friendship. Came to Ischia in 1867. Ibsen had come to work and only toward evening was dedicated to his friend for a walk, Bergsoe tells us
that evening walks were always the same, only in rare occasions could change course but almost always ended badly because Ibsen was panicked and had constant fear of death. Bergsoe also tells us that Ibsen won’t to know more deeply the island, was absent from everything around him. Bergsoe instead walked the island with watchful eyes and there was nothing that did not interest him, he runs through the island with the eyes of naturalist, is interested in the animal, flora, geology and faithfully described the course of its thermal treatment. Spurred by Ibsen, Bergsoe wrote a book called "A NIGHT TO ISCHIA".

He arrived in Ischia between 1828 and 1830. He said that Ischia was equipped with its own characteristics, full of charm and beauty, was rich and fertile and had hot water beneficial. Ischia was a significant piece of land and was often visited for its thermal waters.

Duchess, daughter of the Duke of Courland. His health was not the best, came to Ischia and bathing in thermal waters were found to charities.

English writer, in his amusing "DOLCE NAPOLI" published in 1878 wrote that there were the most beautiful walks in Ischia, more shadows, more conveniences, daily mail and, last but not least, even better society than Capri.

A man who loved Ischia, he was born in Dresden in 1838, he studied theology but preferred to devote himself to teaching. In his work "SOMMERTAGE AUF ISCHIA" basks in the memories of a few months spent in summer 1875 in Casamicciola.

Son of August and Ottilie, he studied philosophy and law alone. He came to Ischia twice, in 1845 he stayed for months alone in Casamicciola in 1846 with his mother in Lacco. His health was precarious, had signs of nervous diseases, then began to suffer from terrible pain in the face.
Seligmann was the Viennese doctor who advised a cure in Ischia. Treatment with water Gurgitello was unsuccessful; decided to return the following summer also in Ischia. This time he made her care in the spa of Santa Restituta, Wolf because of his pain was not able to visit the island.

Il Bar Internazionale
How serene and jolly is to sit
here Round a table under the stars of summer,
Laugh and gossip over wine or stregas
Brought you by Vit

But when Beauty passes, remember, Stranger,
In a corner there, inescapambe a
Death or tales, nothing your going - on, the,
Eyes of Gisella.

Yankee, Liney, Kraut, Foriano, Roman
Ladyes, Gentlemen, and the third sex, join me,
Raise your glasses, drink to our Hostless crying:

“Viva Maria”!

17-9-1953
To my friend Maria, with love
W. H. Auden

Bargheer, Eduard (1901-1979). German painter. In 1925 he won a scholarship for a trip to Italy and he was intrigued. In 1935 he came for the first time in Ischia and settled in Sant'Angelo, where he entered into friendship with compatriot Werner Gilles. In 1939 he moved to Forio took up painting mostly fishermen and farmers, and broke away only during exhibitions in Italy and abroad. "He love the island and explore the piercing eye of the artist, paradigmatically proposing to express a disturbing relationship with nature and men. He take advantage of all the resources of the medium and obtained results of exceptional value, sensitive to the influence of the great movements of the pictorial 900 scans with all his creative possibilities that are offered and find the best solutions to make in terms appropriate to the complexity of his inner world. Eduardo wrote P. P. Zivelli lived among us, farmers, fishermen, artisans, imbibing our culture, interpreting and enhancing it with his art”. In 1948 the municipality of Forio awarded him honorary citizenship. On the facade of the church of S. Maria di Loreto you can admire a mosaic donated to his country. Forio and the Isle remember him often with exhibitions of his works.

Chaplin, Charlie (1889-1977). Actor and film director, one of the greatest players in the history of cinema, was a guest in Ischia in 1957, and at the cinema Reginella he presented the premiere of his film A King in New York. He used to get around the island on the typical local transport, the first model of scooter and microtaxi.

Curie, Marie Sklodowska (1867-1934). French physicist, of Polish origin, Pierre’s wife, discoverer of radium with her husband and founder of the doctrine of the radioactivity was in 1918 in Lacco Ameno with a committee of scientists for a visit to the island of Ischia radioactive sources, and accompanied by prof. Camillo Porlezza, director of the Institute of Chemistry of the University of Pisa. A plaque on the facade of the Baths Regina Isabella remembers the event.

(Rheydt 1894-1961). German painter, who made many trips to Italy (Florence and Anacapri), France and Norway from 1936 to 1941 he lived in Italy (Ischia, Palinuro). In Ischia had his dwelling in Sant'Angelo, where he used to spend the summer months, particularly attracted by the places and the quiet and peaceful life. In his house gathered many other artists who had also chosen the island for their pleasant stay.

(1894-1972). The Industrial textile Group and clothing dating back to the woolen mill of Valdarno. Having obtained the cure of osteoarthritis with thermal waters of Ischia, he wanted to contribute to the development of tourism and promoted to Ischia, at the beginning of the 1950s, the restructuring of the Municipal Baths and the construction of the spa hotel Jolly Ciatsa through the company, already in many Italian cities, with modern hotels. In April 1957 Admiral. Municipal of Ischia awarded him honorary citizenship.

Director of the Institute of Chemistry of the University of Pisa, in 1918 he accompanied the scientist Maria Curie visiting the radioactive sources of Lacco Ameno. He returned in 1957 to visit the new spa and to make measurements of thermal radiation.

(Trieste Casamicciola 1846-1928). Founder and Director of the Geophysical Observatory, whose construction was decided in 1885. He designed the seismic tank, which still can be seen in the halls of the Observatory to record the seismic waves. He gave prestige to a new branch of science. Its seismic devices, presented at the Milan in 1906, were honored with gold medal.

In the summer of 1864 he cured with the waters of Gurgitello the aftermath of the wound at Aspromonte.

He came to Ischia in 1831, was a young composer and a virtuoso piano player. He was accompanied by three friends, and they stayed at Pannella. Unfortunately he could not see much of the island due to bad weather, in his diary described the clothes of that time, drew pictures unfortunately lost.

He came to Ischia four times. In 1830, because of a scaly dermatitis of popliteal came to Ischia to use the thermal waters. With him were his secretary HEINRICH FAHRBACHER, the painter and academic director of Georg von Dillis health counselor and personal physician JOH. BAPTIST Wenzl. Fahrbachher published his memories of Italy, Sicily and Greece the years 1826-1844.