Ischia
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Ischia is a volcanic island in the Tyrrhenian Sea. It lies at the northern end of the Gulf of Naples, about 30 kilometres from the city of Naples. It is the largest of the Phlegrean Islands. Although
View of Ischia from Procida
Maronti beach, east of the spit of St. Angelo
Local view of Il Fungo (The Mushroom)
Ischia seen from the sea, 1776
Phlegraean Islands
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The Phlegraean Islands are an archipelago in the Gulf of Naples and the Campania region of southern Italy.
Ischia
…the Tyrrhenian Sea. It lies at the northern end of the Gulf of Naples, about 30 kilometres (19 miles) from the city of Naples. It is the largest of the Phlegrean Islands. Although inhabited since the Bronze Age, as a Greek emporium it was founded in the 8th or 9th century BCE, and known as Πιθηκοῦσαι, Pithekoūsai. Roughly…
Procida, with Ischia in the background, seen from Cape Miseno.