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A quietly idyllic island in the Tyrrhenian Sea, Ischia offers a heartwarming dose of Italian beauty, spirit and hospitality, with a generous splash of nostalgia for the Italy of yesteryear. Here, five-star hotels and luxurious thermal springs are juxtaposed with scenes of Italian grandmothers hanging out laundry, religious street parades, and kids...

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Best known for his #1 New York Times bestseller Sleepers (one million copies sold) Carcaterra’s career as a writer has spanned over three decades. Last spring his poignant memoir Three Dreamers, which People magazine called, “a fierce, moving tribute to the ties that bind,” captured the incredible lives of the three women who shaped and influenced...

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The Aragonese Castle in Ischia is one of the many attractions offered by the beautiful island of the Arcipelago Campano, a top destination when it comes to seaside and thermal tourism at an international level. At the top of this small island of trachyte rock, which is the result of a vulcanic eruption occurred over three hundred thousand years ago...

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This past Wednesday night, near the top of an island paradise located 20 miles off the coast of Naples, on the picturesque grounds of a 16th-century castle once occupied by Michelangelo, dozens of Italian actors, musicians, models, influencers, government officials and paparazzi — all dressed to the nines — along with a handful of Hollywood denizen...

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Ischia, an island of volcanic origin has been known for its hot springs since the dawn of civilisation: from Homer onwards, poets, geographers, historians, naturalists and doctors (Timaeus, Ephorus, Pliny the Elder, Strabo) often spoke of Ischia as having such interesting natural phenomena and at the same time frequent volcanic telluric manifestati...

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The island of Ischia is the largest of the islands in the Gulf of Naples and offers a wide variety of accommodation and holiday opportunities: although it has an area of only about 47 square kilometres, there are six different municipalities with different administrations: Forio, Ischia, Lacco Ameno, Casamicciola, Serrara Fontana and Barano. The vi...

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Few places evoke the mythic legacy of the Mediterranean as powerfully as the tiny Tyrrhenian island of Ischia. With its tangles of bougainvillaea cascading over parched rocks, lizards darting between slabs of volcanic tufa and cliffs rearing up over indigo waves, Ischia feels more like a place Odysseus might have visited than a typical Italian holi...

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Called "green island" for its wonderful and lush flora, Ischia is the largest island of the Campania Archipelago, unanimously recognized among the most beautiful and characteristic in the world. The charm of the island is lost in the mists of time, countless would be the stories that can be told about it. Even now it is one of the most popular tour...

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Capri and Ischia lie 17 nautical miles away from each other, just an hour's sail, yet they have nothing in common. Capri is glamorous and Ischia is wild. Capri is called the blue island, Ischia the green. Capri's specialty is fish, Ischia's is rabbit —  agriculture, not fishing, has always been the island's driving force. All Ischians have a vegeta...

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For travelers in search of the opportunity to relax by the sea - yet still partake in an active cultural and social scene - a trip to the lovely islands of the Bay of Naples is definitely one for the bucket list: we’re talking about Procida, Ischia and Capri. A long weekend is ideal for enjoying the beauties on display on these three islands and fo...

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