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ISCHIA - CASAMICCIOLA - LACCO AMENO - FORIO - SERRARA FONTANA - BARANO
Lacco Ameno has a surface of 2,7 Kmqs with a population of around 4500 inhabitants. The altitude goes from meters 0 on the level of the sea to the 300 of the region Mud. The municipality of Lacco Ameno it occupies the north-western part of the island and it extends him along the sea and on the first slopes of the Epomeo.
And' the smallest commune of the island but not the less known. Notes are its waters what of the Firewoods, of the Capital, of Saint Restituta, of the Regina Isabella, of St. they Climb on and the thermal arenas of Saint Restituta and the fluffy heater of St. Lawrence.
The name I Lacquer according to the most greater part of the researchers drift from the Greek lakkos that means stone. November 18 th 1862 the town Suggestion, presided by the Mayor Carmine Mennella, he asked the addition of the adjective to the king Vittorio Emanuele II "Ameno" to the name I Lacquer, concession granted with Ministerial Decree of January 4 th 1963.
Lacco Ameno, a natural amphitheater that opens on the sea, introduces the thermal waters with the tallest coefficient of radioactivity in the so-called sources of Saint Restituta, patron of the town and the whole Island.
According to the tradition, in 304, the virgin's corpse Restituta of Cartagine, miraculously came from distant Africa landing on a fragile small boat in the bay of St. they Climb on, condemned for the Christian faith to be burnt long live on a boat pushed in sea. Holy Restituta is the patron of the island and the sanctuary to her devoted, 16, 17 and 18 May of every year it is center, to memory of such miraculous event, of solemn celebrations. Lacco Ameno, it consists of two churches: one of 1886, the other sort in the sec.XI above a basilica paleo-christian. To the Sanctuary a small Museum is found, with prehistoric finds and rests of the products of the Greek potters of the sec.VIII-IIs a.C.
In the years '50, thanks to the publisher and film producer Angelo Rizzoli (what it gave the only existing hospital to the country on the island) that he/she adopted the commune of Lacco Ameno, the ancient Thermal baths Regina Isabella had widened and enrich of a hotel complex. This way in the turn of few years, Lacco Ameno and the whole island of reflex, became pole of attraction of a cosmopolitan worldliness.
Lacco Ameno is characterized by a called rock-cliff "the Mushroom", for his/her unusual form. It is found to brief distance of the shore, and it is a rock of tufo green tall 10 meters fallen by the Epomeo Mountain. Important monuments: the Sanctuary of S. Restituta, with the attached excavations and museum, the church of S. Maria of the Graces, the church of SS. Assumed in Sky, the church of St. Joseph, the Tower of Montevico, Villa Bush with the park and the Archaeological Museum of Pithekusa.