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ISCHIA - CASAMICCIOLA - LACCO AMENO - FORIO - SERRARA FONTANA - BARANO
The commune of Barano it has a population of around 8500 inhabitants and a surface of around 12 Kmqs.
It occupies the part Southwest of the island and it is constituted by different agglomerations ancient places on delicious hills. The fractions have history and autonomous traditions.
The population, of origin farmer, purely had necessity to create nucleuses that were distant from the center to be more next to the grounds to be cultivated. They formed, so, the villages of Piedimonte with the regions of Matarace and Molara, of Fiaiano, Testaccio with the regions of Chiummano, Piano and Vatoliere, of Buonopane and of the Schiappone with St. Pancrazio. It is a typical commune of hill that still preserves rural characteristics. The entry in the commune is marked from the ancient aqueduct called of the Pillars (1470). to signal the Tower of the Saracens to Testaccio, the mills to wind of Montebarano, the front doors put to the entry of some estates of notable of the past, the hundred wine cellars dug in the tufo (to preserve the wine) and the pits of the snow (to preserve the ice for the summer).
To also mention the houses to carusiello from which it draws origin the dance well knows as "'u P'nton" as well as the little wood of Fiaiano from where possible to admire the postcard of the gulf of Naples.
Interesting points, also from the tourist point of view are, for instance, the beach of the Maronti that, as the rest of the island, possesses modern hotel complexes; her already quoted little woord of Fiaiano, the hill of the Cretaio (homonym little church of the XVIII sec.), the sources of Buceto, the hill of the Schiappone (church Madonna of Montevergine sec. XVII), as well as the villages of Testaccio, Buonopane (ancient folklorist dance of the "Mascharata" and sources of Nitrodi) and Piedimonte.
To also see finally the piazzetta of Barano, that is the heart of all the activities center of two churches,: St. Sebastiano and San Rocco. On a side of the plaza the buildings of 1700 and 1800 are perceived. Finally the church of St. Giovanni Battista, one of the most ancient of the island (1400) with a cloth of the school of the Caravaggio.
The town territory, for the one who comes from Ischia, it immediately begins after the Pillars and it continues for hills and mountains up to reach the splendid Beach of the Marontis, to the feet of the Testaccio, and then to disperse itself among the border vegetation with the Commune of Serrara Fontana. Barano has always been famous for the fresh air and to greet that he breathes, for the fertile and luxuriant valleys, for the beauty of the valleys and the mountains, for the beauty of the panoramas, for the sources of Olmitello and Nitrodi and for the cultural traditions.
In Barano there is the summary of all the forms of erosion that exists in Italy. The "cave" that they clearly cut as hits of erosive forms, here and there they aerate the "burden pugliesi", form of deep crevasse; the "cicciò" Piedmontese, terrestrial bulgy; the "calanchi" bolognesi, terrestrial that is easily broken up and the clays in Siena. In this strangeness of landscape almost scary characterized by phenomenons of fumarole and sources of warm waters we find the famous one "Cava Scura" on the beach of the Marontis; the caves of S. Angelo; it gets by some Bridge of Buonopane; Pallarito gets by that begins from Fontana.
The principal monuments are: parish church of S. Sebastiano, church of S. Rocco, parish church of S. Giovanni Baptist and parish church of S. Giorgio. Folk it is the dance of the Ndrezzata: dance from the unbridled rhythm and for the violence expressed by the dancers in the "to fight him", armed with mazzarielli and of wood swords. You develops in the region of Buonopane on Mondays of the angel and on the occasion of the party of Baptist S. Giovanni.
Folklorist it is the dance of the 'Ndrezzata: dance ritmato from the violence expressed by the dancers in the "to fight him", armed with mazzarielli and of wood swords. You develops in the fraction of Buonopane on Mondays of the angel and on the occasion of the party of St. Giovanni Battista.