Casamicciola Terme

Casamicciola Terme

Casamicciola Terme abandons him on the northern coast of the island, part along the sea, part on the necks backside dressed again of vineyards, olives and flowers. Articulated in various fractions, this place takes the appellative of Thermal baths in 1956 to set the accent on those that are her own principal attractions. The tourist that lands in the harbour, of recent construction, embraces the territory of this commune with a sol glimpse. The origin of the name "Casamicciola" it is very discussed, but the most certain drift from three words: Casa-in-Insula, that means "House in the island"; this name was given by someone of the dry land because, after having built you a house in some solitary point, he called it "House in the island" to distinguish it from those of the dry land. Casamicciola divides him in two parts: Tall part and Low Part. The Tall part, more ancient, it is absorbed in the green of the woods, on the slopes of the necks of the Gurgitiello and the Sentinel; The Low part, that modern, extends him along the Marina. As mentioned before, Casamicciola owes her fame to the thermal sources around which establishments have risen for baths, muds and heaters to the vapor; this is the commune richest in mineral waters both for the quantity and for the variety. For the one that doesn't need thermal cares Casamicciola it has available then her sweet beaches and the quiet of her high ground; from Casamicciola excursions can be effected to the Epomeo Mountain and the Rotaro Mountain real natural monument. It deals with an out volcano in which it is possible to go down to visit the crater dressed again by a thick vegetation of it.

Casamicciola

it is the earth that in her villas and in the famous hotels have entertained the most illustrious men among writers, poets and artists. We remember Enrico Ibsen, great Swedish writer, Alfonso De Lamartine, the author of " Graziella ", romance in which the young procidana was immortalized. Casamicciola is known all over the world for the ceramics factory of the Brothers Mennella placed on the coast road: in this factory the technique of workmanship of the clay can be observed and in the vast saloons of exposure it can be admired some real ceramics masterpieces. Casamicciola is sadly known for the violent earthquake that July 28 th 1883 shaved her completely to the ground. The reconstruction was very long and hard-working, true that to the beginnings of the 1900 the greatest part of the inhabitants still lived in the huts. Volcanic activity mostly interested the Researchers of the time, especially careful to the telluric movements that tightly interested the island connected to the complex of the Fields Flegrei and in 1891, on the summit of the hill of the Gran Sentinel, a Geophysical Observatory was built. Continuing our walk toward harbour of Ischia we find a very known Thermal Park from the foreigners: the Castiglione. He takes the name from the homonym zone, where  have been conducted the excavations that have brought finds of the civilization to the light micenea; It seems that the Cumanis chased by the tyrant Aristodemo were sheltered today still in the place called house Cumana. There is whoever it says that the Castiglione was the palace of Alcinoo and the mineral waters that flowed to sea in reality they constituted the "fiumiciello" where Nausica washed his/her dresses when Ulisse met. Famous it is then the cave of the Sibilla, where the sibilla Cumana would have lived. In conclusion we can say that the Ischitan's thermalism is born to Casamicciola in the moment in which the baths are served under control physician and the patient helped by assistants. This happened for the first time to the beginnings of '600, when to work of the marquis Mr. Andrew of Avalos were installed the actual Thermal baths Belliazzi.
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