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Forio (known also as Forio of Ischia; pron. forìo) it is a commune of almost 15,000 inhabitants of the province in Naples, on the island of Ischia, the widest of the island.
Forio has suffered in the centuries different invasions from the Saracens, of which preserve marked signs in the local architecture. In the fifties many artists of the whole world were given appointment in this Commune, attracted by the beauty of the places and by the cordiality of the residents. Along the coast a lot of towers of sighting and defense rise, the most famous of these is the Tower.
The historical center practices a particular charm with its noble buildings, the typical lanes, him "ateliers" of the local painters, the lower case letters artisan shops of ceramics, the churches rich in history and art. Besides, a shopping center can be admired typical of a famous tourist place.
Other interesting points, particularly from the tourist point of view, they are the numerous beaches, among which the beach of S.Francesco of Paola and the beach of the Chiaia; Cithara with the famous thermal park of the gardens Poseidon and, in the fraction of Panza, the bay of Sorgeto with natural tubs of warm water in the sea, among the volcanic rock-cliffs. Of particular interest they are the Gardens "La Mortella", only in their kind and surely to visit for the one that spends a few days on the island.
It divides itself in the fractions of Forio and Panza with other peripheral villages (Monterone, Cuotto, Citara).
Forio is the second commune, for population and importance. It stretches to the center of two promontories, Punta Caruso (in the place Zaro) and Stings Emperor, among held beaches the most beautiful of the island and in the metallic green of the grapevines, that descend gradually in a scenery of incomparable beauty from the Epomeo mountain. Forio has a surface of 13 Kmqs with a population of around 12500 inhabitants and its altitude it goes from meters 0 on the level of the sea to the 700 in the zones of the Falanga.
And' the only commune that preserves intact its historical center with the alleys, the churces, the towers of sighting and the unchanged monuments in their structure. Principal monuments: the church of the Help (brought on the postage stamp of the Italian Mails) devoted Saint Mary of the Snow, the Tower, church of St. Francis from Paola, the church of the Arciconfraternita of Saint Maria of the Graces dictates Visitapoveri, Basilica Pontifical S. Maria of Loreto, Church of S. Vito, parish church of S. Leonardo Abbot, S. Maria to the Mountain.
If Ischia is the commercial center of the island, Forio can be defined that cultural. In the years '50 were international center for famous men of the show (Luchino Visconti, Pierpaolo Pasolini, sir William Walton, Eduardo De Phillip, Liz Taylor and Richard Burton), of the culture (Hilt Morante, Alberto Moravia, Renato Guttuso, Auden, Pablo Neruda), of the politics (Pietro Nenni) and of the jet-set (Jackelin Kennedy, Aristotle Onassis) and so many others.
The shore of Forio, with its continuous indentations and prominences, it not only allows the bathing on the long beaches, but also in set apart places. With a little walk Zaro can be reached or, in the place Panza, her indeed only bay of Sorgeto that for the presence of puddles of warm water it is, in any season, suggestive destination for a "bath at night."