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8 unusual facts about Ischia


Anthony Hecht

Even at this stage Hecht's poetry was often compared with that of Auden, with whom Hecht had become friends in 1951 during a holiday on the Italian island of Ischia, where Auden spent each summer.

Kodeksi

They found gigs extremely hard to come by with the new sound, but eventually got a low-paying one on Ischia island.

Marxist–Leninist Italian Communist Party

The party is based in Forio, a commune of 14,536 inhabitants in the province in Naples, situated on the island of Ischia.

Nancy Spero

In Florence and Ischia that Spero became intrigued by the format, style and mood of Etruscan and Roman frescoes and sarcophagi which would influence her later work.

Patrizio Oliva

From October 1980 to August 1981, Oliva won thirteen straight fights before he fought for his first title belt, the Italian light welterweight title against Giuseppe Russi on 4 November 1981 in Ischia.

Reggiane Re.2005

Minguzzi scrambled for the first time in the Sagittario on 24 March, when Naples was attacked and on 2 April he claimed a four-engined B-24 Liberator bomber over the Isle of Ischia.

Rocco Barocco

During his childhood and youth, he lived on the island of Ischia in front of Naples, where he grew up with his eight brothers.

Vincenzo Zitello

In September 2009 he is awarded the Premio Benessere per la musica by the City of Ischia.


Agostino Falivene

Agostino Falivene born from Giffoni in the province of Salerno, of the Order of the Servants of Maria, was Roman Catholic bishop of the island of Capri from the 25 September 1528 to the 24 April 1534 in that Pope Paul III transfers it to the island of Ischia where he died in 1548.

Ameno

Lacco Ameno, a town and comune situated in the northwest of the island of Ischia, in the Gulf of Naples, Italy

Eruca sativa

A sweet, peppery digestive alcohol called rucolino is made from arugula on the island of Ischia in the Gulf of Naples.

Mirischia

Quoting from Naish et al. (2004): "The ischia of Mirischia are asymmetrical, that on the left being perforated by an oval foramen while that on the right has an open notch in the same position."

Music of Campania

The most important musical activity on the islands in the Bay of Naples is on the island of Ischia on the premises of the Mortella Gardens and Villa, the site of the William Walton Foundation, which hosts a yearly music and opera workshop.

Nestor's Cup

It is now kept in the Villa Arbusto museum in the village of Lacco Ameno on the island of Ischia, Italy.

Phlegraean Islands

The myth, of Greek origin, tells of two brigands, the Cercopes of Ephesus, who played pranks on Zeus, who then punished them by turning them into monkeys and exiling them to the islands of Aenaria (Ischia) and Prochyta (Procida).


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