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The alley of San Gaetano

It is for some years now that the street of San Gaetano seems to have returned a reference point for the walking day and forian night life. The ancient deposits of fishermen and the old houses that overlook it little by little have redone the look, modernizing and becoming more comfortable..

The magic Tribe of Maronti

Go down to the Maronti is like descend from the top of the Grand Canyon on the banks of Colorado, in the Navajo Reservation: «Augh, here everything exists and everything you can imagine…». Just like here, on the beach that goes from ‘Punta della Signora’ to the fumaroles. Here, every grain of sand is a true story, a myth and a dream together, for thousands years, and those who dare to doubt it is only a dirty infidel to garrotte instantly.
I always attend it; a must is to see my incessant wanderings, from Papua to the Pantanal, from Tibet to Antarctica.

The “Minstrels”: the traditional melody of Ischia

“The parking attendant is near ... and sings, a bit bent, almost softly ... his face does not change, does not make gestures, but tells about dramas and passions accompanied only by guitar and mandolin…”(Dduje paravise - 1924)

John, Paul, Ringo, George? No, simply Dino, Nello, Vito, Florindo: here, si parva licet, the FabFour of the island of Ischia.

O' Vagnitiello: weelbeing between reality and legend

A small park, a kingdom of harmony and peace, a place of unparalleled beauty is hidden in a secret place on the island of Ischia. Hard to find, almost as if it would be undisclosed. However, we did it, and in front of our eyes revealed in its entire splendor. O’ Vagnitiello, Hydrotherapy Park located in Casamicciola, offers beneficial spring waters, whose origins are lost in the mists of time.

Piano Liguori, the island that I want

I walked along the Piana Liguori and was an amazing experience for me. I was already full of bucolic expectations ... but the reality has gone far beyond all that.
To reach Piana Liguori, in my cousin Simona’s company, we chose to go cycling to the bewilderment of "villagers" who could not believe we were islanders went adventuring. Definitely the funniest part was asking how to get this wonder.

Thermal Park Aphrodite - Apollon

In one of the most picturesque locations of the island of Ischia, in the charming village of St. Angelo in Serrara Fontana, we can forget the stress that plagues us all year and is really easy thanks to the Thermal park Aphrodite, a rarity and beauty peace set in one of the most popular gems on the island. Reached via a pleasant walk of a few minutes, but also with a convenient taxi boat from the port of Sant'Angelo comes to the park in just five minutes.

Parco Termale Castiglione,Spirulina is renewed with the bluest green you’ve ever seen

Like a precious stone set in a jewel, lies the hydrothermal structure of Castiglione, nestled between the parracine (characteristic dry stone walls of trachyte, the local volcanic stone) and dense vegetation from lush green, the blue of sea and pools. Strategically located among the towns of Ischia and Casamicciola Terme, it is a real sensory experience, where the same colours are taken from natural spirulina, microalgae typical of tropical regions (Central America), and found in Ischia, specifically in a thermal pool in Citara.

Ischia Prize for Journalism

Innovation in tradition, this is the main stream that drives the thirty-third edition of the Ischia International Journalism Award. The award opens as usual on July, during the three-day event, the world of journalism debates and questions about the future of information and the international economic crisis. Not surprisingly, the International Prize was awarded to a most famous world economic newspaper journalist.

Buonopane in St. Giovanni celebration and Ndrezzata

Barano is one of the six municipalities of the island of Ischia established during the French domination of the Kingdom of Naples in 1806. It is the second largest land (12 km2). Its population is about 9.000 inhabitants scattered in 4 fractions (Piedimonte, Fiaiano, Buonopane and Testaccio). One of these ones - Testaccio - was also an independent town from 1806 to 1873. At the Piazza of San Rocco - the center of the city located about 200 meters above sea level - one comes from Ischia Porto through the state highway ex-270, now provincial, which circumnavigates the island,

The wine vats of Ischia

No wine-making plant of stone or brick was founded in Greek colonies in the West, insomuch as it was assumed that in Ancient Greece and Sicily were used wooden instruments.

One of the few examples of areas dedicated to the wine production was found perhaps in Ischia in the village of Punta Chiarito, dated back to the VI century BC where a stone oval bowl shaped was brought to light. There are numerous traces of rural hand-operated winepress dug into the rock dating back to different times.