The Oasis of Castiglione
An oasis of peace and tranquility surrounded by lush vegetation that slowly goes to ‘kiss’ the blue of the sea: the Thermal Park Castiglione of Casamicciola has made these two colors that characterize it, a motto and a source of pride (“The bluest green you've ever seen!”), making it a unique piece in the mosaic of colorful beauty of Ischia.
A sea to love
Navigating to Ischia is the first pleasant experience that welcomes the traveler on our island.
The view of the island from the sea is impressive, it is a promise of joy, as Kaden said. The rugged coastline enclosed by blacks lava blocks against which waves the sea ... then the beach among the cliffs that penetrating the interior meets the most luxuriant vegetation.
Sant’Anna of the fishermen
Giovan Giuseppe Esposito is 86 years old and doesn’t look his age having an exceptional memory. He has worked as fisherman all his life supporting his family: a wife and four children. Every morning, he ‘goes down’ to the Mandra, his neighborhood, on the beach of Pescatori to greet his friend Bruno who runs the chalet at the foot of the former district prison here called ‘il mulino’ (the mill) and that today is a lovely cultural center where there are exhibitions and theater shows signs of a remarkable cultural and civic vitality of this area.
The colours of Franco
It's important to have a romantic mood and a bit of the imagination to go back in time and remember how the current street ‘Via Marina’ in Forio, led to “abbasc o mar” (to the sea). The kids, like Franco Calise, probably were not able to appreciate the pure beauty due to their age. The scenery was wild, the beach was long and endless and the sand crossed with the grains also the road a little over a meter wide were there were small shops, where one could buy soda, wine and ice cream.
San Ciro: St Ciro: the Green Church on clear waters
"“After leaving the village of Panza ... you go to meet the Ciglio farmhouse overlooking valleys, hills and other houses which still form part of the parish of Serrara. It is called Ciglio (Eyelash) because the ancient mythologists islanders and foreign poets considered it a place where the giant Typhoeus, buried under the island, shaped his lashes while a campaign just below called ‘the mouth and the belly’, corresponding to the head of this giant, was Testaccio and feet Pieio or piede.
Ischia International Architecture Award
From July 8 to 13 Ischia becomes one of the international capitals of architecture. Comes back, in fact, PIDA, Ischia International Architecture Award, now in its sixth edition. “Today - say the organizers - the architectures of hospitality are times of challenge and confrontation between the designers and architects around the world.
Island with a view
"Of volcanic origin, the island of Ischia is one of the most fascinating places in Italy thanks to the conjunction of time, history, art and natural beauty. Here live together the sea and archeology, spas and flavors, folklore and modernity. Of the many possible routes to get to know and appreciate, we chose one that favors glances to the visitor. An island tour through scenarios that tell on it, where you can "see" as well as watch. Scenarios can enchant and fix mind not only for the beauty and evocative power of a panorama.
Among churches, bell towers and traditions
July has come back and with it also the typical religious festivities of this wonderful month!
Although the scene is captured by the charm of the Prize of St. Anna, still two events deserve our attention: the feast of the Madonna del Carmine in Serrara on July 16 and the feast of St. Mary Magdalene, the patron saint of Casamicciola, on July 22.
The parish of St. Mary of Mount Carmelo in Serrara rises at the end of 1500 for a vow made by the Jacono family, on a farm of Carmelite friars, who came to Lacco Ameno to restructure the Church ...
The excellence of the Nitrodi source
The name of this typical source comes from the Greek “Nitron”, which means pure, crystalline, and is an adjective of the word “Ntr”, meaning God. In fact, the first Greek settlers (in the eighth century BC) erected a temple dedicated to Apollo and the water lilies in the vicinity of the source, believing in the healing properties of the waters as a divine protection.
Duty to inform, the right to know
“An acknowledgment to those who have researched and told, over an entire career, his own truth through the means of mass communication. A prize for Ischia that has always represents a crossroads of different cultures, a bridge between the cultural European and Mediterranean tradition”. So wrote Giuseppe Valentino when thirty-four years ago gave birth to the first edition of the Ischia International Journalism Award.
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