Ischia

11 giugno 2011 - ore 20,36
1_castello_d_aragona.jpeg Ischia Ponte, Ischia old, the main streets are via Roma and Corso Vittoria Colonna with numerous bars, shops and restaurants are a meeting point for many tourists.
The beaches are the most important beach of Lido Beach and Fisherman Beach.

The most important church is S. Antonio, rebuilt in the eighteenth century in which there is an Antoniana library, with several books on the history of the island.
In the diocese we see an early Christian sarcophagus and some remains of ancient monuments belonging to the Cathedral.

In the Church of the Holy Spirit is the Lady of Grace by Paolo de Matteis.

Adjacent to the church is the Cathedral of the Assumption of ancient origin but rebuilt in the Baroque period.
Inside is a baptismal pool with three late-Renaissance supported by virtue of the fourteenth century, still, of paintings by Giacinto Diano apse and a wooden crucifix in 1200.

The Castle was built as a Byzantine garrison in the fifth century BC C. with Charles I of Angiò founded a village on the slopes in the past has been the most important residential settlement on the island. In the fourteenth century, the island via a bridge, was connected to the mainland.

Beyond the bridge, you reach the former cathedral which is adjacent to the church of the monastery used with the next with a macabre cemetery of the nuns.

Mount Epomeno, famous for its view of the golfo of Naples and Pozzuoli, is 790 m high, to reach the top you need to pass the church of S. Nicola and the hermitage and chapel of the Crucifix.

For a dark path to get to Cava Scura where  is a hot spring that gushes from the rock at a temperature of 100 ° C.
This source is exploited by a thermal plant very special, because it is carved into the rock.
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