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Serrara-Fontana, is the smallest commune of the island of Ischia. it is Born from the aggregation of the precedents common of Serrara and Fontana. The chief town is Serrara, the fractions are Fountain, Sant'Angelo, Succhivo.
The fraction of Sant'Angelo, with it's suggestive dock, it constitutes one of the centers of bathing tourism more famous than the island.
The commune of Serrara-Fontana has an extension of 669 hectares and a population of around 3000 inhabitants. It's the tallest commune of the island. In fact it extends him from the sea up to the peak of the Epomeo Mountain to 789 meters. The commune is divided in the followings centers: Serrara, Fountain, Sant'Angelo, Succhivo, Ciglio, Calimera and Noia. Every one of these centers has a different typology from the rest of the island. Here numerous testimonies of the country civilization ischitanas are still preserved and they keep on persisting forms of life to it tied. The territory is hilly, often ploughed from deep canyons created by the waters rain of it. Only the center of Sant'Angelo is on the sea. It is afoot only a practicable small village of fishermen.
The urban nucleus is constituted by a thick group of low houses of pink color. The houses are picked up around narrow little streets that is rejoined in the piazzetta of the country, in proximity of the natural isthmus that ties the suburb to the characteristic promontory. Principal monuments: the church of the assumed one and St. Michael Arcangelo, the church of the Madonna of Montevergine, the parish church of S. Maria SS. of the Carmine, the parish church of S. Maria of the Payment, the hermitage of St. Nicola and the chiesetta of S. Nicola in Bari.
SANT'ANGELO
Sant'Angelo is the only gem harbor of Serrara Fontana, agricultural country prominently sets, to over 400 meters on the sea, to south of the thick volcanic of the Epomeo. A little village of humble houses of fishermen and an unique beach for beauty, kissed by the sea on two sides. The place offers the possibility of various trips and excursions but, among everybody, interesting it is that to the valley of Cavascura, where a mighty thermal source, going out from the rock to the temperature of 100 degrees, feeds an unusual thermal establishment, dug in the alive stone. Not less interesting it is the excursion to the Epomeo, that the tourists prefer to complete at night for assisting from the peak of the mountain to the magic show of the dawn, of the aurora and to rise some sun. Choosing a night of full moon will be seen Forio in the candid light as an oriental city and the sunset of the satellite in the sea. The name "Epomeo" it has a beautiful meaning: to see panoramically from the tall one.
To visit S. Angelo is certainly a marvelous experience. To the coast it is attached an attractive suburb, once primitive village of fishermen, while toward the sea detaches him a little peninsula well known as «Tower of S. Angelo». As a great rump of a camel it advances toward the sea. This peninsula doesn't have peer in the national geographical territory. The old houses of fishermen that rise to the roots of the mountain, are currently confused to the luxurious hotels that make of S. Angelo a small Capri. To S. Angelo a sense of grandiose rest tries him. Here they are banished the cars and the meteors that dart on the government one some island you/they cannot enter you. Cafe and restaurants to the open one, welcome you among sky, sea and mountains.
On the islet, tall 106 meters and legacy to the island from an isthmus along 119 meters, there were once a small monastery and a tower of look-out, of which the inferior part is seen, still destroyed in 1809 from the cannonades of the English, when they chased French from the Castle of Ischia and from the same island.
In his/her outskirtses thermal waters abound, relief of the suffering ones. From the side of a hill abundant thermal water that feeds the Thermal baths garden of Aphrodite rises, place of joy and dream. Along the beach that brings the Marina of the Marontis there are the famous Fumaroles. Here it needs to be careful not to walk barefoot afoot since sand is hot.
The church, devoted to assumes him and to San.Michele Arcangelo, it goes up again to the XIX century and it was elevated to parish in 1905 at the bishop Mario Palladino and recognized by the State in 1915. On the most greater altar a cloth of the Madonna of the XIX century.
From Ischia I Bring S. Angelo you/he/she can be reached for two different itineraries. Taking a bus of line, Casamicciola can be crossed, I Lacquer, Forio. Of then passing for a vast and restful expanse of vineyards, S. Angelo is reached.
The second itinerary brings away you they Cheat. Through this run way of observing the hilly part and mountain one of the island it is had. In fact the bus, crossing vineyards, mountains and zones of green eternity, between serpentine roads and perfumes of grasses woodland, it delivers you of sudden to the flattering caresses of the landscape of Sant'Angelo. Among the so many personalities and VIP that visit every year Sant'Angelo there is the German Chancellor Miss Angela Merkel.