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The island of Anna

It is available on the island of Ischia the July 2014 issue (4-year V) of the Magazine "Ischianews & Eventi"

The History of the island of Ischia is inextricably linked to its religiosity. This is an “old” island where the civilized man came from Greece since the eighth century BC and is no longer gone. Just as Christianity has arrived earlier than elsewhere. Restituta - the patron saint of the island - came from the sea brought by the sirocco wind on a boat from the shores of Tunisia since the fourth century after Christ. Since then she is worshiped in the temple of Lacco Ameno and all the houses of "ischioti" as Berkeley called them in the eighteenth century. The history is mixed with myth.

Even the Diocese of Ischia is one of the oldest in Italy although perhaps smaller. The first bishop was called Pietro, and the meager news about him dating back to the twelfth century. For centuries, the Church was for the "islanders", as they are called today, a "person of the family, which was necessary to provide like the others, his wife, his mother, his children", as said Bishop Pasquale Polito (1907 -1994).

On the island there are now seventy-nine places of Christian worship among churches, shrines and oratories rich in precious signs of devotion that the faithful have erected over the centuries so that journalist Ciro Cenatiempo called it the "island of miracles" because they are "temples of the spirit, set in environmental and cultural scenery absolutely unique".

It is a mix between “sacred and profane that helped to create the identity of Ischia”. Many churches and so many saints to which they are devoted to different communities of the island. Every small community has its church, its patron saint, and the feast in his honor. If the churches are just as many 79 or maybe more are the patronal feasts which represent the authentic ‘local color’.

July is the month of St. Anne, mother of Mary, the Mother par excellence that protects pregnant women. It is celebrated not only in Ischia Ponte - the ancient Borgo di Celsa - with the celebration on the sea, which is the most important festival in the summer of the island, which this year has many new features as we announce in this issue, but also in Lacco Ameno, Casamicciola and in the fraction of Fiaiano in Barano.

“The island of Anna” is the title of the July issue (4 - year V) of the Magazine “Ischianews & Eventi” magazine-guide of the “green island” in Italian and English directed by Enrico Deuringer with the collaboration of Giuseppe Mazzella and co-manager of the editorship by Tommaso Massimo Pilato.

For centuries, the births of children took place in the homes of women giving birth with the assistance only if there was, the “midwife” as it was called the midwife and then the cult of St. Anne was very strong everywhere. The infant mortality was very high in the families of farmers and fishermen, the populace of island. This worship has remained and has not been cleared by modernity.

The “miracle of life” remains locked in mystery attached to rocks to which the islanders have given the name of Anna in the most beautiful place on the island.

“Ischianews & Eventi” shows the final events of the twelfth edition of Ischiafilmfestival this year chaired by director Pupi Avati with screenings, exhibitions, conferences, which are held in the Aragonese Castle in the ancient village of Celsa from June 28 to July 5.

Events with the complete guide to restaurants and pizzerias, hotels of all places and of all classes, the beauty centers, the shops of typical products, services agencies, with the map of the typical products of the road and the wine and maritime timetable from Naples and Pozzuoli and public automotive service of the island.

Also are describes the most important monuments to be seen how the Aragonese Castle at Ischia Ponte, Villa Arbusto and the excavations of Santa Restituta in Lacco Ameno, in Forio La Mortella by William and Susana Walton, La Colombaia by Luchino Visconti and Giardini Ravino while for hiking lovers the trails are proposed to discover the hills leading up to Mount Epomeo, the island’s highest mountain with its 788 meters. And yet the wonderful “thermal parks”, “Poseidon Gardens”, “La Romantica”, “Aphrodite Apollon”, “Negombo”, “Castiglione” the “source of Nitrodi”, “Giardino Eden” and “O’Vagnitiello”.

"Ischianews & Events "has run in 10 thousand copies and distributed through 400 points of the island of Ischia in Italian and English.

Dance and memory

Ischia News ed Eventi June Magazine is available in Italian and English for the tourist island of Ischia.

Even Giulio Jasolino (1549-1639) remarked, Calabrian doctor at the court of Naples in his seminal text “De Rimedi naturali” that are now known on the island of Ischia Pithecusa describing the populations of the island: in Barano people amuse greatly to dance”. He was referring to the “Ndrezzata”, the ancient dance of Greek origin, which is kept in Buonopane, a small village in the municipality of Barano located about three hundred meters above sea level.

The impressive mosaic ceramic - twenty meters long by artist Nello Di Leva - dominates the square of San Giovanni Battista in Buonopane. The ceramic mosaic was placed in 2011 on the initiative of the municipal administration headed by Mayor Paolino Buono with meaningful images and tells the old story of Barano and above depicts the “Ndrezzata”, the oldest island dance whose origins are still shrouded in mystery and are lost in the mists of time because it is impossible to find an explanation to the “preach of the corporal”, which you can read on the mosaic.

“The preaching of Corporal” is the original story narrated by the ringleader to explain this dance of love and war which involves eighteen dancers "weavers", four players, two clarinets and two drums that give rhythm. This traditional band is reserved only for citizens of Buonopane who participate in transmitting the art and privilege from father to son, from generation to generation for centuries.
To the “Ndrezzata”, who performs Tuesday, June 24 to the end of the festivities in honor of St. John the Baptist in the square of Buonopane at 23 is dedicated the service of the opening of the June issue of the Magazine “Ischianews & Events” directed by Enrico Deuringer with the co-manager of Giuseppe Mazzella and the editorship of Tommaso Massimo Pilato.
With ‘Dance and memory’. And the story of the legend and history of San Vito Patron of Forio whose celebrations are held June 14 to 17.
And yet all the events of the twelfth edition of the Ischia Film Festival this year chaired by director Pupi Avati with screenings, exhibitions, conferences, which are held in the ancient village of the Aragonese Castle in the ancient village of Celsa, now called Ischia Ponte, from June 28 to July 5.
There is also space at the Ischia International Journalism Award now in its 35th edition at the Grand Hotel Regina Isabella in Lacco Ameno on June 27.
With the events and the complete guide to restaurants and pizzerias, hotels of all places and of all classes, the beauty centers, the shops of typical products, thermal park, to service agencies, with the map of the typical products and the wine route and timetable of Transportation from Naples and Pozzuoli and public automotive service on the island.
There are also the most important monuments to be seen such as the Aragonese Castle at Ischia Ponte, Villa Arbusto and the excavations of Santa Restituta in Lacco Ameno, Mortella by William and Susana Walton in Forio, La Colombaia by Luchino Visconti and Giardini Ravino while for like hiking the trails are proposed hills leading up to the roads of the island, the island’s highest mountain with its 788 meters.
“Ischianews & Events” has run in 10 thousand copies and is distributed through 400 points of the island of Ischia in Italian and English.

Ischia in flower...

In this issue stands the symbolic image of the flower, the common denominator of the topics that affect the month of May full of colors and scents of spring. From the legendary white lilies that covered the boat of Santa Restituta coming from the sea to the exhibition of rare plants, Ipomea, to Negombo.

May for the islanders is therefore the month of Santa Restituta, the Saint come from the sea in a distant time according to an age-old legend passed down from generation to generation that witnesses the age of the populations of the island of Ischia, the first Greek colony of West dating back to the eighth century BC

Restituta led religiosity in populations of island, every year remembering the important occasion in honor of the Saint on May 17.

Along with the important feast of the patron saint of Ischia resort also see the unique exhibition of Ipomea at the thermal park Negombo with its impressive collection of rare plants.

The image of the flower have been associated with many different eras in the concepts of whiteness and beauty, recalling that flowers are an integral part of the cultures of the four corners of the globe, unrivaled ambassadors of emotions.

The explosion of colors and scents of this time that envelops the land into one big warm hug, then transports us in the middle of spring and makes sure that our senses, from the dormant winter days, wakes up and enriches the wonders that "the green island" can offers. There is no better time of year to bring out the boots, dress comfortably, leave for a moment the coast and into the heart of Ischia, now in its second edition, the event "walking along trails" was created with the aim of bringing people (islanders or not) to the territory, a necessary condition in order to know, love, and then protect it.

But spring is also the season to be able to spend a day in a shower of the miraculous waters of Nitrodi. To embrace the entrance to the solarium, changing rooms, showers and therapeutic sessions for localized water jets, there is a garden risen five years ago thanks to the engineering nature. Visitors will enjoy the landscape perched and articulated terraces, redesigned with a path lined by aromatic plants, mostly Mediterranean, and from indications, such as the "flow of Youth", which promise to be on the right "road ".

Naturalistically speaking we cannot forget the Migliaccio Estate which extends between cliffs, quarries, canals, for 14 acres. It comes down to one lane from Serrara inaccessible once reserved for mules but now made by car driveway with powerful engines. The view that you see from the terrace of the house is indescribable in its beauty and in its immensity.

This estate produced one of the best red wines of the island in the "long century" so much so that in 1870 it received the Medal of Honour to national wine competition.

We conclude by mentioning the riding sporting event. On the occasion, Ischia stops time and as has already happened with the II stage of the Tour of Italy last spring, the streets only welcome cyclists and events that will enhance the value of sport outdoors.

Ischia as global concept!

With the first rays of spring sunshine and on the occasion of Easter we are pleased to inaugurate the 2014 season of the magazine Ischia News & Eventi, always in Italian -English bilingual version. This first issue of the fifth edition touches upon many different topics from Easter to the islanders as a tribute to the artistic character Giacinto Lavitrano.

The Passover told by two islands, Ischia and Procida. Ischia with the original sacred drama dedicated to the passion and death of Jesus, the representation was designed and built by St. Francesco from Assisi in the distant 1111 and staged in the streets of Forio since 1982 thanks to an initiative of a group of young volunteers; and Procida with its Mysteries, the Dead Christ parading in the procession of Good Friday is the very soul of Procida, the quintessential of the man’s personal and intimate pain.

How not to submit a hymn to the now late spring, with the warm scents of the earth, roots, grass, sea, buds that come together in a single essence and stimulate our imagination , memories , the desire to live in a dimension that is not chaotic and exhausting daily survival.

It does not even miss the character of the island culture which for this number is Giacinto Lavitrano, and re-propose the creations is a good tribute to his memory and his music for granted without giving the magnitude, or on the contrary, look at him with disdain, but finding good reasons to rediscover the original voice of a narrator of his time.

The inevitable tribute to the hot springs of Ischia, such as the nymphs of Nitrodi and the recent
discovery of the ancient mouths carved into the stone.

In this first issue we propose a new recipe section, ‘homemade’, where are the same islanders to offer unique dishes and tempting straight from the home.

Other new features include the section of the trails with detailed descriptions about the most beautiful and natural stretches of the fascinating green island!

Tradition and crafts, main features of the island community found in the clothes of Bettina with her artistic form of “wearable art”.

Among the columns present, the wedding on the island with dream location to crown the love of couples who want to pronounce the fateful 'I do'.

Inevitable as always our rich calendar of events with so many important events to be entered on the agenda of islanders and tourists exploring the beautiful Ischia.

In short, a guide should not miss to have in your pocket all the useful information about Ischia ...as global concept!

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