Torre di Casa Cumana
Casamicciola Terme (NA)
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The story
A sixteenth-century tower that survived the 1883 earthquake which in seconds razed Casamicciola and killed over two thousand people. It still stands there, while the town around it has been entirely rebuilt.
Access
Visible from outside. Interior not open to visits
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Sacred artChiesa di Sant'Antonio al Mortito
Casamicciola Terme (NA)
A small hillside church in a Casamicciola that has learnt to live with the ground that trembles and the mountain that slides down.
- Hiking
Il Cretaio e il Bosco della Maddalena
Casamicciola Terme (NA)
The trail of the craters: you walk among holm oaks, strawberry trees and heather, and every bend is the rim of an extinct volcano. It is the green heart of Ischia, the one you cannot see from the sea.
More gems: Castles
- Castles
Palazzo Sansevero
P.za San Domenico Maggiore
On the corner of piazza San Domenico the palace of the princes of Sangro still carries the echo of the night when Gesualdo surprised and killed Maria d'Avalos and her lover.
CastlesCastel Capuano
zona Garibaldi
An old Norman castle that for four centuries served as the courthouse of Naples: here justice held session in frescoed halls, in the shadow of nearby Porta Capuana.
CastlesPalazzo Donn'Anna
Posillipo
The unfinished seventeenth-century palace juts sheer over the water, dark and labyrinthine: through its empty rooms legend has the shadow of Donn'Anna still wandering.
CastlesCasina Vanvitelliana
Lago Fusaro, Bacoli
An octagonal pavilion that seems to float on Lago Fusaro, a Bourbon hunting lodge reached by a little bridge, among reflections and morning mists.
CastlesVilla Lysis (Fersen)
Capri
Built in 1905 by the poet Fersen and dedicated to love and to sorrow, an Art Nouveau villa among the pines, with a Latin inscription at the entrance and the opium room hidden below.
CastlesPalazzo d'Avalos (ex carcere)
Terra Murata
First the palace of the d'Avalos family, then a prison until the late twentieth century: the empty cells command Terra Murata, suspended between the memory of the inmates and the silence that lives there now.