Forio (known also as Forio of Ischia ) is a town and comune of c. 17,000 inhabitants in the Metropolitan City of Naples , southern Italy , situated on the island of Ischia .
7-534: Its territory includes the town of Panza , the only frazione of Forio and of the island of Ischia. Panza has always been an independent village since the 16th century when a first governmental organization was introduced on the island. In the 1975 the inhabitants of Panza tried to become an independent comune but the referendum , claimed by the inhabitants of Forio, was denied by the Campania's Regional Government. There are numerous coastal watchtowers , built from
14-403: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Panza Panza (sometimes Panza d'Ischia ) is a small town of 7,000 inhabitants on the island of Ischia , Italy . It is a hamlet ( frazione ) of the municipality of Forio . According to archaeological discoveries the place was so named by the first Greek colonists in the 8th century BC astounded by the rich variety of
21-699: The Middle Ages against Saracen and African pirates raids. In the 20th century, Ischia inspired at least two well-known English language poets. Ischia was the site where W.H. Auden composed one of his most famous poems, In Praise of Limestone. And the American Poet, Theodore Roethke, dedicated his poem The Storm, to "Forio d'Ischia" as printed in Selected Poems of Theodore Rothke (Library of America, Edwin Hirsch, Ed., 2005, p.113). This Campanian location article
28-411: The center of the modern village, is a suggestive places within the island. Set among two promontories, the inlet offers a show of natural wild scenery and, to lines, hostile. The access in the bay is given by an ample staircase that counts 214 steps, but it is possible to also reach Sorgeto by sea. The bay of Sorgeto is world-famous for its hot mineral springs . Different thermal veins flow in fact along
35-615: The flora and fauna. They settled and founded a small farm ready to colonize all the island founding the first western Greek colony : Pithecusae . After the Roman conquest of the Island, the village was named Pansa Vicus , from the Latin verb pandere namely outstretched in the sun . In Neapolitan language the word panza means belly , in a variant of the Italian word pancia . The bay, not far from
42-424: The gouts, to the frigidity and the sterility . One of the most interesting areas is the bay of Citara with its famous thermal gardens Poseidon . 22 pools (Thermal, Kneipp, and ocean-water) have been installed according to latest technical and medical knowledge. The water temperature varies from 28 to 40 °C (82 to 104 °F) ). The abundance of water means that it is constantly renewed. A Roman Sauna and
49-434: The whole bay, but it is from a single spring that water always gushes out with impetus and in abundance. The temperature of the water reaches 90 °C and mixes itself with the salty water of the sea so to create natural tubs of different temperature gradations. In the 16th century a Calabrian physician, G. Jasolino, first examined the thermo-mineral waters that according to Jasolino had varied curative effects: beneficial to
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