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IN FORIO FOUR CENTURIES OF TIMELESS STORY.

You have to settle with time. A time that seems like Janus, ancient Roman deity. He escapes, with an eye toward the past to recognize and guess but remaining still, motionless and impassive, and enjoys in its essential features the inlays of the memory, looking to the future. There is a time that passes and one that stays still. It shares with itself, looking inside, but at the same time safeguarding what produces looking outside, to reach it. It fights against its erosion, punctuated by the seasons passages that always alternate equal and that flow leaving the signs along the four hundred years of life of the “Visitapoveri Confraternity”.

Ipomea by Negombo 2017

On May 26th, 27th and 28th 2017, sponsored by Lacco Ameno, the 15th edition of Ipomea will take place, the fair of rare and unusual hot-tempered plants.

The opening is Friday, May 26, from 3 pm to 8.30 pm, Saturday and Sunday from 10.30 am to 8.30 pm. It will take place in the Hydrothermal Botanical Park of Negombo. On May 28, at 4:30 pm, the program extends the possibility of conversing with landscape painters such as Ermanno Casasco and Patrizia Pozzi or assisting the work of the two illustrators, Simo Capecchi and Alessandro Rak, who will simultaneously perform a graphic reportage describing the most curious plants, telling about cultivation, uses and anecdotes, drawing in front of the public. Ipomea wants to be an affirmation of the culture and sense of the place through the world of plants, essences and natural products. The exhibition will be associated with the Butterfly Museum “Lepidoptera”, which can be visited from May 18 to July 31, and for the entire month of September. A longer period in order to turn it into a semi-permanent attraction on Ischia Island.

The culture yeast and the blessed bread

«The earth is full of crap, and nature rebelled. We need to return to the old systems of work, in the sense that in the land we should have a new mentality, rather with respect than once». When we meet in the cellar, on time my friends - sucking greasy fingers after having bitten the last 'mbrugliatiello of rabbit - they want to convince me that “we must not give up”.

Ariosto in academy the Orlando by Cocciardo

“Of loves and ladies, knights and arms, I sing”

The rhetorical chiasmus, as a trio marked by the cross of four brushstrokes, opens and synthesizes the Orlando Furioso by Ariosto. Made up with a grid of eighth of hendecasyllabic metre, the chivalrous poem is divided into a whirlwind of people, events, feelings that crowd, jostle, and alternate. Think of the paintings or the Renaissance tapestries depicting the epic battles of Pavia, Roncesvalles, and San Roman. Artists such as Paolo Uccello, Ruprecht Heller, where they wrap like waves, theories of shapes and colors (bodies twisting convulsively, armor, muscles warriors and horses) divided by long rows of lances that mount a scaffold made of geometric correspondences between straight, drive shafts, beams with diameters of voltages. It is a biblical crush of men and beasts that is impossible to enumerate and distinguish immediately in detail but which it works as a perfect mechanism.

Ischia, in May "Walking along pathways": the island discovered on foot

#Andarpersentieri - The program of the manifestation between sea and volcanoes, nature, archeology and geology in Ischia.
A week to discover the beauty of the island, unpublished itineraries to get to know the green soul of Ischia: this is “Walking along paths”, the slow and sustainable tourism event that starts in its fourth edition, scheduled for May 11 to 14.
A calendar of appointments for trekking lovers, promoted by 8 associations, Pro Loco Panza, Cai Island of Ischia, Strade del vino e dei prodotti tipici, Nemo Association, Associazione amici di Piazza Maio, Epomeo in sella, Association PIDA - Premio Internazionale Ischia di Architettura and Federalberghi Ischia. They propose a real full immersion among woods and trails, passing through pine forests, hills, mountains and breathtaking scenery overlooking the sea.
Itineraries that will take participants - followed by the CAI guides - to capture the authentic spirit of the island, its heterogeneous souls, and the endless wealth of generous and fertile territory where nature grows lush, giving rare species of plants, flowers, vegetation.

Ischia Sunset Triathlon, May 14 at Forio, 7th edition

On May 14, Ischia will host the seventh edition of “Ischia Sunset Triathlon”

In addition, this year, the organization of Ischia Sport and Tourism - composed of Neil MacLeod, Sara Coppola and President Michelangelo Di Maio with his “Forti e Veloci isola d'Ischia”, in collaboration with CN Posillipo has found in Forio the perfect location for an event that every year attracts numerous athletes and families. There have been no changes compared to last year’s race and therefore at 12 o’clock the start of the swimming part, starting from Chiaia beach, this year made more secure thanks to the important collaboration of Yacht ClubVela.it and the Forio Diving Center, which will provide technical support in this first part of the race. After the planned and canonical 750 meters of swimming, it will go to the 20km of bikes distributed between Forio town center and the Colombo promenade up to the Citara junction, and at the end of the race with the 5km race that will be mainly developed in the historical town center of Torrione. A breathtaking trail through the narrow paths - almost certainly the only one in the world - will accompany athletes to measure their abilities in a location that can further stimulate the performance of the participants.