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Forio: 081 997008
Barano : 081
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Ischia:
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Casamicciola: 081980175
Forio: 0815071272
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900185
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Forio: 081 997542
Barano : 081 905764
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Forio Medical
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997080
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FIRM
TOURISM
Ischia:
081
5074211; 0815074231call center 081 4972777
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5074701
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Popular
parties
One of the most ancient traditions of the island and perhaps the most
famous is the dance of the 'ndrezzata performed to Buonopane, fraction
of they Cheat on the church square of the Church of St. Giovanni Battista,
twice a year: the Monday in Albis and on June 24 day of St. Giovanni,
protecting of the villaggio.18 dancers 'ntrezzaturi, four performers,
two breaths (clarinets) and two tammorres damage the rhythm to this
dance from the ancient origins, whose secret is transmitted of generation
in generazione.I 18 dancers, with in head the lance-corporal that recites
a filastrocca in ancient ischitano to the beginning, places in two you
look for concentric of nine dancers each that you/they grasp a mazzariello
with the right and a wood sword with the left; then to the orders of
the lance-corporal and the rhythm of the performers they weave him frontally
exchanging hits of mazzariello and sword and lateralmente.Per the Easter
important I am the Street Crucis in the afternoon of Friday Saint to
Forio, the representation of the Passion and Death of Christ in Marina
Plaza to Casamicciola and the Run of the angel to the center of Forio.
Particularly picturesque they are the recurrences of Saint Restituta
to I Lacquer Pleasant with three days of celebrations with procession,
fires and concerts, that of Sant'Anna to Ischia with the parade of the
floats decorated in the mirror of underlying water the Aragonese Castle
with the fire of the castle and fires and finally the "September
on the church square" near the Church of S. Pietro to Ischia with
games, shows, shows of art.
BARANO
20 January: Party of S. Sebastiano, patron of the Commune.
March (every Friday): Pilgrimage in the church of the SS. Crucifix of
the Cretaio
1/9 March: Party of S. Giuseppe to Fiaiano
23 April: Party of S. Giorgio to Testaccio with procession and orchestral
shows.
Monday after Easter: Party Madonna of it Brings it to Buonopane with
execution of the «Ndrezzata».
24 June: Party of S.Giovanni Battista to Buonopane with execution of
the «Ndrezzata».
16 August: Party of S. Rocco to they Cheat.
End August: The Madonna's party of it Brings her/it to Piedimonte.
7/8 September: Party of the Madonna of Montevergine to the Schiappone
with pilgrimages from the whole island.
BUONOPANE
24 June: Party of the 'ndrezzata - Monday in Albis is performed to Buonopane,
fraction of they Cheat, on the church square of the church of St. Giovanni
Battista.
Party of St. Giovanni -
CASAMICCIOLA TERME
17 January: Party of Sant'Antuono with fires and musica.Come
the tradition wants at the end pasta and beans, sausages to the fire
with friarielli, innafiato with white and red local wine.
27 February: St. Gabriele (Church of S.Maria of the Pity). Evening of
holy Thursday and holy Friday: Our Lady of Sorrows.
FORIO
Friday Saint: Street Crucis along the city roads with departure
from the basilica of S. Maria of Loreto.
Easter: Sacred Representation of the Run of the angel.
1a Sunday of May: Party of S. Francesco from Paola near the homonym
sanctuary.
14-16 June: Party of the patron S. Vito with processions, fires of artifìcio.
2 July: Party of the Madonna of the Graces (chiesetta of S. Gennaro
to Panza)
Last Sunday of July: Procession of the Madonna of Loreto with departure
from the Basilica of SS. Maria of Loreto.
5 August: Party of the Madonna of the Help in the omoninia church.
7 August: Party of S. Gaetano in the homonym church in Luca Balsofiore
Plaza.
15 August: Party of the assumed near the Sanctuary of S. Francesco of
Paola.
12 September: Party on the Mountain in the church of S. Maria to the
Mountain.
13-15 September: Party of S. Leonardo to Panza.
29 September: Party of S. Michele Archangel in the homonym church.
4 October: Party of S. Francesco to Town hall Plaza from the church
of the Franciscan ones.
2a Sunday of November: Party of the Madonna of the Free one near the
church of S. Carlo.
8 December: Party of the immaculate Conception in the Basilica of S.
Maria of Loreto.
13 December: Party of S. Lucia in his/her church in the homonym Plaza.
24 December times 06,00 Saint put Church St. Gaetano, Procession for
the streets of the center. At the end pasta and beans.
24 December places St. Gaetano market of the fish.
Run of the angel - Monday in Albis
LACCO AMENO
31 January: Party of St. Ciro in the church of the announced
to the Fundera.
Holy Friday: Traditional Street CRUCIS in the parish church.
Domenica of Easter: Traditional «raced of the angel» in
it congregates her/it of the assumed one.
19 March: Party of S. Giuseppe in the church of S. Giuseppe to the Mud.
16-18 May: Party of Saint Restituta V. and M. with processions and fires
of artifice.
2 July: Party of the Madonna of the Graces in the parish church with
procession and fires of artifice.
26 July: Party of Sant'Anna with procession in the church of S. Rocco
and characteristic parade of allegorical platforms.
15 August: Party of the assumed with procession, illumination and fires
of artifice in congregates it of the assumed one.
8 December: Party of the immaculate one in the Sanctuary of Saint Restituta.
13 December: Party of Saint Lucy in the church of the announced to the
Fundera.
16/17/18 May Party of Saint Restituta - Particolarmente picturesque
this recurrence, the celebrations last three days with procession, fires
and concerts.
Domenica of Easter: Sacred representation of the Resurrection in plaza.
13 June: Sant'Antonio (Parish omonima):processione and fires of artifice.
21-22 July: Saint Penitent Maria Maddalena: procession and fires of
artifice.
3a Sunday of September: Grieved in Maio plaza.
4 October: St. Francis of Assisi (Bath Plaza): procession and fires
of artifice.
PORTO
D'ISCHIA
1a Domenica of September Party patronale of St. Giovan Giuseppe -
La statue of the patron is brought then away sea by the Bridge to the
Porto,per to make return with a procession by earth in his "house"
of Ischia Bridge. The party concludes him with pyrotechnic fires on
the mare17 January: Party of S. Antonio Abbot in the place S. Antuono.
The procession and the external party is postponed to following Sunday
31 January: Party of S. Ciro in the homonym church. Also here procession
and external party are postponed to following Sunday
Evening holy Friday: Suggestive Street Crucis from the actual Cathedral
up to the ancient Cathedral on the Castle.
5 March: Party of the S. Patrono of Ischia, S. Giovan Joseph of the
Cross.
3a Sunday of May: Party of Maria Madre of the Divin Pastore in the church
of the Good Shepherd.
Last Sunday of May: Party of Maria Rifugio of the Sinners in the parish
of Portosalvo.
10 June: Procession of S. Antonio for the region Bunch from the homonym
church of the convent.
13 June: Party of S. Antonio in the homonym church. The external demonstrations
with the procession are postponed to following Sunday.
28-29 June: Party of S. Pietro in the church of S. Maria of the Graces.
16 July: Party of the Madonna of the Carmine in the homonym church in
the region Chapel.
26 July: Sea party to the rock-cliffs of Sant'Anna with parade of allegorical
boats and fires of artifice.
End August: Party of the announced in the church of Campagnano.
1a Sunday of September: External party for the duration of 4 days in
honor of S. Giovan Joseph of the Cross.
Month of September: «September on the church square» Demonstrations
of culture and show on the church square of he asked her of S. Maria
of the Graces e/o S. Pietro.
16-22 December: Novena of Christmas in the Cathedral church. Ischia
Bridge. Opening to the public of various artistic mangers. 6 July Party
of Sant'Anna - Di great interest for the tourists the recurrence
of Sant'Anna that you/they hasten numerous every year, in the mirror
of underlying water the Aragonese Castle, to admire the suggestive pyrotechnic
fires. Party of Sant'Alessandro - 26agosto
SANT'ANGELO
29 September: Party of St. Michael - Il country, renews the homage
to his/her own saint with prayers, songs and celebrations, every year
to end September. For the occasion, the statue of the saint leaves its
place in the homonym church, and you is brought in procession, for a
day for all the roads, up to the plaza where the mass is celebrated
to the open one and another day for sea on board of the greatest boat
of Sant'Angelo. Also maintaining the native sacredness, nevertheless,
the party has become a tourist attraction thanks to the demonstrations
of contorno,sempre more accattivantis that to every edition they organize
him.
SERRARA
FONTANA
31 January: Party in honor of S. Ciro to the Eyelash.
13 June: Fountain, party in honor of S. Antonio in Padua.
16 July: Serrara, party of the Madonna of the Carmine and S. Vincent
Ferreri with demonstrations folcloristiche, among which the fire of
the bell tower the evening of July 15.
8 September: Succhivo, party of the Madonna of Montevergine.
24 September: Fountain, party of the Madonna of the Payment with processions,
concerts of musical gangs and fires of artifice.
29 September: Sant'Angelo, party in honor of S. Michele Archangel with
suggestive procession on the sea.
Myths
and legends
THE BURIED GIANT
Classical mythology narrates that under the island of Ischia TIFEO would
lie, the giant child of Tartar and GEA, defeated by Jupiter in the battle
of the Fields Flegrei. The inhabitants of the green island would be
explained so eruptions and earthquakes, and you would have cultivated
the passion for the subsoil and the caves.
THE GREEN RAY
The "green ray" it is a particular phenomenon to which you
can be assisted by the extraordinary belvedere of the before terrace
the church Saint Maria of the Help to Forio to the time of the sunset.
The fusion of the last rays of sun with the blue one of the mare,crea
a brief shine of an intense green, that harbors fortune is said to whom
succeeds in seeing it.
THE
HIDDEN TREASURES
A recurrent theme in the island legends is that of the hidden treasures,
Ischia it doesn't disappoint the tradition hypothesizing a city underground
mail under the Epomeo Mountain, where the mythical treasure would be
concealed "of the Seven Kings."
Turn
of the Island
An interesting
turn of the island is able' to be effected crossing the National n.270
beginning from the commune of Ischia. The road connects all the centers
and offers notable panoramic foreshortenings, especially in the south
slope of the island.
Ischia and' the more center' important for number of inhabitants, for
vivacity' commercial and as place' thermal and bathing. The extremity
is found to' oriental of the northern coast and he/she includes Ischia
Bridge, that is' the characteristic ancient part formed from a suburb
of fishermen, and Ischia I Bring, the more part' modern among the pineta
and the sea. His I bring and' today the principal landing of the island.
Thanks to his numerous harbors, to the beautiful pineta, to the suggestive
panoramic foreshortenings and the ancient bathing establishments of
which it prepares, Ischia recalls big part of the tourists of the place.
Casamicciola was one of the first places' of the island to be busy from
the Greek colonizers; Famous characters sojourned you what the playwright
Ibsen, Ernest Renan and Garibaldi. This last him firm' for a long time
to take care the posthumous ones of the wound brought in Aspromonte
proper to in the villa Parodies beside our hotel Beautiful Sunset. Casamicciola
and' in fact one of the more' famous thermal stations of the world,
among whose rising he/she remembers particularly him that of the Rita
and of the Gurgitiello. Rich of vineyards, it covers the most greater
part of the island production of wines; valuable and' the production
of artistic ceramics, resulted of a traditional art developed him since
the more times' ancient.
In the western part of the northern coast he meets I Lacquer Pleasant,
lived by the Greek colonizers since the VII sec. a.C., as they testify
the precious funeral furnishings found again in the plain one of St.
they Climb on in 1952.
Almost a symbol of the place and' an unusual rock-cliff, to form of
mushroom, that the millennial erosion has drawn from the initial block
of tufo of the Epomeo.
To destination' around of the western coast Forio is found, place' very
famous for his/her thermal waters since the prehistory and particularly
appreciated to the times of the Romans. These had a preference for the
sources of the beautiful beach of Cithara from them devoted to the cult
of Venus Citarea and healing Apollo.
Particularly exposed to the foreign raids beginning from the IX sec.,
defended Forio him erecting 12 towers in tufo that has deserved her
the appellative of "towered". Rich of beautiful churches,
Forio and' a picturesque center, that occupies an important place in
the production vinicola of the island.
Serrara Fontana and' the situated commune in more position' elevated,
to more' of 400 ms. on the sea, on a southern costone of the Epomeo
mountain. Place' from the rural charm, introduces suggestive panoramas,
particularly that that from the terrace belvedere opens on the Gulf
in Naples. From here him it is able' to depart for an excursion to the
Epomeo mountain, and to visit the cavonis of Fountain deep throats dug
in the tufo by the action of the water and the wind. The Epomeo mountain,
imposing and mysterious, with sharp woodpeckers, it dominates the island
from the tall one of his/her 788 meters. The relief and' formed of greenish
tufo and long volcanic evolution has marked the history of the island.
From the peak an enchanting panorama enjoys him that covers a ray of
around 108 Kms. Particularly suggestive and' the ascension before the
dawn, that allows to assist to the double show offered by the last lights
of the island and the Gulf in Naples and then to rise some sun. On the
Epomeo mountain he can also visit the hermitage and the chiesetta of
St. Nicola. Of this commune makes the characteristic village of fishermen
of Sant'Angelo it departs; besides and' situated among two bays formed
by an isthmus that colleague the dry land with the homonym promontory;
here the rests of the tower of Sant'Angelo can be observed.
On the south-oriental slopes of the Epomeo mountain and' picturesquely
placed the commune of they Cheat. And' an eminently agricultural center,
and it has a splendid result to sea, the beach of the Marontis, rich
of thermal sources and of fumarole. Particularly in the beach the caves
and the fumaroles of the Vallone of Cavascura and the mineral sources
of Nitrodi and the Olmitello can be reached.
By
nigth
Le nights ischitane? Do never end! The wheel of the fun
always turns, and and mix among the registered fun Ibiza and that caprese.
The benches of the harbors and the principal courses are rich of taverns,
restaurants, discos, American-cafe. To Ischia from the everlasting Shores
Droite to drink, to eat, to dance, to speak or… to make to be seen,
to the piazzetta of the Pino where we find the Ecstasy, a nice american-cafe,
obligatory meeting of parties of habitue of the island. Music live,
house, plain cafe and so many vip to the New Valentine, under the Piazzetta
of the Pino, whether to spend at least an evening and obligatory. From
the other slope Sant'Angelo, with the mythical piazzetta, devoted to
the romantic ones, to whom loves the calm and to the most delicate spirits.
Bus
lines
BUS
3 Ischia Porto Piazza Marina Piazza San
Pasquale Piazza Bagni La Rita
Piazza Maio.
BUS 4 Piazza Marina - Piazza Bagni - La
rita - Piazza Maio - Fango - Lacco Ameno.
BUS 14 Piazza Marina - Piazza Bagni
- La rita - Piazza Maio - Fango - Forio -
Citara (giardini Poseidon).
CIRCOLARE
DESTRA Ischia Porto Pilastri Piedimonte Barano
Buonopane Fontana Serrara Panza Succhivo
St. Angelo Forio Lacco Ameno Casamicciola
Ischia Porto.
CIRCOLARE SINISTRA Ischia Porto Casamicciola Lacco
Ameno Forio Panza Succhivo St. Angelo
Serrara Fontana Buonopane Barano Piedimonte
Pilastri Ischia Porto.
BUS 1 Ischia Porto Casamicciola Lacco Ameno
Forio Panza Succhivo St. Angelo.
BUS 2 Ischia Porto Casamicciola Lacco Ameno
Forio Citara.
BUS 5 Ischia Porto Pilastri Piedimonte Testaccio
Maronti.
La
rita
is ahead the stop to our hotel.