ISCHIA IN RED, FERRARI'S RALLY IN THE GREEN ISLAND

The fourth edition of 'Ischia in red' is scheduled from May 25 to 28. the streets of the green island will be 'invaded' by a rally of Ferrari cars. The rally is promoted by Naples' classic car club. Forty different Ferrari cars, from the seventies to today, will be in Ischia for a chronometer race and three different shows.

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Ischia cuisine

From IschiaIntavola.com:
Since the tourist boom of the 70s Ischia experienced a great transformation. Almost all social classes enjoyed a better economic status thanks to the new financial resources coming from tourism. In order to have a high and sure income many peasants abandoned their fields and began working in the more and more numerous hotels and spas.Of course, also most food habits were deeply influenced by that social and economic transformation. On one hand, the generally better economic condition allowed to buy and eat such products considered as valuable in the past (for instance, since that time beef had been exclusively bought in the case of illness); on the other hand, food produced by peasants (both of breeding and agriculture origin) was replaced by products coming from continental intensive farming and breeding, being less genuine but more abundant.This trend was due to the lack of labour (because of the migration to the hotels) as well as to the shortage of local production that was unable to meet the enormous food requirement for tourists on the island. As a result, on the islanders’ tables there were more and more products that had been totally absent in the past (beef, veal, desserts, butter, sugar, oil) or rarely present (pasta, white meat, fish). By that way, proteins and fats, sugar and carbohydrates strongly increased to disadvantage of pulses and vegetables – with their high fibre and vegetable content, so fundamental in the Mediterranean diet… This food evolution took place also in the hotel gastronomy where, in order to meet guests’ requirements, were proposed many international recipes to disadvantage of the typical local cuisine. Anyway, the worst consequence of this trend was represented by the fact that many traditional recipes were no more handed down from one generation to the following one or even forgotten. The “gastronomy globalization” (that is eating tagliatelle with bolognese sauce or linguine with pesto sauce) brought a wonderful richness in our kitchens but became at the same time the only cuisine we know. So, we must come to our grandparents’ memories to work out again some recipes of the past.To tell the truth some Ischia “researchers” (among them also several restaurateurs) are trying since a few years to collect and develop these traditions of Ischia. Thanks to the growing interest in this subject we are persuaded that it is the right moment. As a matter of fact, many restaurateurs are offering again a lot of local specialities thus giving also the younger generations the chance of (re)discovering their cultural origins. Furthermore, we are really encouraged by seeing that not only the Ischia inhabitants are interested in knowing the recipes of their land but also many tourists love to get in touch with our territory and expressly ask for tasting our local specialities, even washed down with a good wine and framed by information about local gastronomy. It is a real discovery of our origins that does not only concern gastronomy but strongly incorporates our historical and cultural heritage

Rabbit Ischia Style

Typically Ischia dish, prepared with garlic, tomatoes, white wine, chilli-pepper and herbs, expresses itself at best when cooked in a earthenware saucepan that gives it a “round” and intense flavour. Sicilians were supposed to introduce rabbit in the Ischia cuisine. Anyway, this animal found on Ischia its ideal habitat to reproduce. As years went by, Ischia inhabitants began rearing them in 3 m deep pits where rabbits were put in pairs and fed on roots; later on peasants built also rabbit hutches near their houses. Today many pits are used again to rear them. The best side dishes for this speciality are both “French fried potatoes” and “pan fried peppers, ancient style”

Exhibition of Rare and Unusual plants

Eight thousand species of rare and unusual plants of the temperate, tropical and mediterranean belt will be displayed at the 4th edition of Ipomea, the botanic event to be held at the hydro-thermal botanic park of Negombo, San Montano d'Ischia, from 19 to 21 May. Forty exhibitors are taking part, from 15 Italian regions, the US and Santo Domingo. The event will include seminars and shows on the gardens of Lake Maggiore; palm trees and rare species of the Antonio de Luca farms of Miami (Usa); Ravino di Forio gardens; a bibliography of the international bookshop Oolp-Out of the London press of Turin; an event on the Bread Tree. "Ipomea - say the organisers - is a commercial event, but not a marketing one. It wants to affir the culture and sense of belonging to a place through the world of plants and natural essences".

Green Itinerary on the Island

Moving to Ischia and precisely to Forio City, near Walton house Gardens, called Mortella gardens. Those gardens were born on 1956 by will of Susana and her husband William Walton, a famous English musician. With the help of Russell Page, one of the greatest landscapists architects of the Twentieth century, and friend of the Waltons, an enormous volcanic stony ground was turned into a tropical eden of 16.000 square mts, with more than 1000 kinds of rare plants. In this garden there are orchids, ninphea, lotus flowers, Ginkgo biloba great trees, the so-called crocodile fall, and the Thai Room. From Forio to Serrara Fontana there is a path of about three hours walking, which leads to the Epomeo Mountain, the highest peak of the island, with its rocky installations dug-out in the tufo.

Wine and Gastronomic Tour

The island gastronomy has very deep roots in the double maritime and country tradition, which also inherited Greek and Roman habits. This area is rich in well - known wines that have been satisfying the most demanding palates from centuries, and where in many "taste temples" old recipes are constantly handed on. Cookery is now more rich in fish dishes, available for all social classes, but years ago it was not the same. In ancient times, the most delicious fishes were a prerogative of rich people of the Neapoletan middle class. On the tables of the less wealthier there were cheaper products, such as fried or dip in eggs anchovies; the anchovies cake, and "la musdea",a kind of codfish cooked at the acqua pazza, with little tomatoes, garlic, oil and chilli pepper. In Procida there was the ancient receipe of pesce fuit (escaping fish): bread, hot water, spices, garlic, and just the desire to eat a fish that wasn't actually in the dish because less wealthier couldn't actually afford it. There are many recipes to be look-up at, in order to study the island gastronomic traditions. First of all we have the well-known Ischia fish soup, prepared with the most tasty fishes, such as for example the rock-fish, the water-hens, the stuffed tattler, which is a very ancient receipe. The stuff inside is still the same old grannies used to prepare years ago. There are also many tipycal country recipes, as for example the soup with beans and pumpkin, broad beans soup at the old tastes way. Ischian housekeepers used to cook this particular soup, to bring it to their husbands working in the fields - Another recipe is chicken, and rabbit, cooked at the Ischian way, with garlic, tomatoe, white wine, chilli peppers and spices. This recipe is very tasty, and meanwhile cooking those meats in this way, inside a crock saucepan, there is a wonderful smell. Many Caprese recipes have enchanted the famous actor Totò (who adored linguine at the rock-fish). Other important men as D'Annunzio, Malaparte and the futurists, were all attracted by those smells, impossibile to find anywhere else. How to forget the ancient cianfotta dish, one of the dishes Emperor Tiberio invented together with Serpillo, his famous greengrocer; then the ravioli alia caprese, which became a real gastronomic symbol of the island, thanks to D'Annunzio's praises. Those raviolis are stuffed with eggs, parmesan, sweet marjoran, and caciotta cheese. In 1909 D'Annunzio called this cheese, the caciottella, describing it with the following words: "candid, tender, humid, this cheese preserves the most fresh milk virginity, underneath its peel". Let's not forget about Tettler and aubergine balls. The first ingredient is a shellfish that can be easily found in Capri sea (the famous Curzio Malaparte used to fish tettlers during night fishing), and can be cooked in different ways, but the most delicious way of cooking it, is stuffed with different kind of cheese, everything mixed with the tettler's heads. It is said that the aubergine balls, have sweetened the Oscar Wilde's opposed stay in Capri, during the libertine dinners with his friend and poet dandy Jacques Fersen in Villa Lysis. Finally let's also mention the famous peppers stuffed with bread,capers, olives, cooked by Chaertusian monks. Let's now talk about desserts, and the other many delicacies, like lingue di bue (ox tongues), fragrant desserts of light puff pastry, stuffed with custard, or lemon cream. Those ingredients make the little pastry shops in Procida Harbour smell so very good, enticing visitors to taste those pastries. Sant'Angelo, in Ischia, is the most greedy's destination, who meet there to taste peer and — chocolate pies, ricotta pies and many other leccornies that can be tasted while being sat outside, at one of the little tables. In order to taste all those recipes we suggest visitors to stop at one of the meeting point of the nine island city halls. Very near to Procida harbour there are many bars and restaurants where you can have the chance to taste some of the most typical island recipes. You will be more likely to find fish dishes, as the tasty small octopus at Luciana's way, with capers and black olives; noodles with sea chestnuts, very tasty and to be eaten in an evocative context, with genuine air and a breathtaking landscape. Approaching Ischia, near the harbour it is possible to find typical places where it is possible to taste ischitane special fish dishes, from the delicious fish soup, to the fantastic fusions of local dishes with the new gastronomic experimentations. We find the island culinary tradition, for example in small octopus, and in the rigatonis at the ischitana way. We also suggest you to taste some bold dishes, such as the Summer pappardelles, the very fresh bass fish, chicory, basil and even watermelon. But there are also other interesting country dishes, where we suggest you to have a "consigliata", but also many earth dishes, and seasonal monographs, as the winter maialata, together with mountain excursions guided by experienced naturalistic guides. Forio is another place where wine - gastronomic places are of high quality and of big variety. The range goes from bold recipes, as polipo verace dolceforte (hot sweet veracious octopus), where the recipe hot taste is garanteed by green peppers, and the sweet taste by chocolate flakes. You will find first courses, the result of a rereading of old traditional recipes, and second courses are fantastic, as for example fritto di paranza al guazzetto di scoglio all'isolana. In this place menus acquire literature influences, with a rereading of immortal recipes by Vasquez Montalban. It is also interesting to have a more concrete contact with the most rural and hidden part of the island where it is possible to find the most simple and genuine recipes, where you can taste appetizers as fried pickled rolls, and crock beans. The tour continues to Capri where we suggest you to have a stop at the lemons area. There are many restaurants and bars cooking typical recipes, and offering clients a fantastic sea sight, surrounded by lemon trees. Also some recipes have been inspired by the lemos influence in this area, such as mozzarella cooked directly on the fire and laid on a lemon leaf, and a fantastic dessert, tasting recipes from earth and ranging to the calamarata alla pescatrice, caprese quails, and least but not the last the famous caprese salad. The lemon has become a cookery symbol, as well as a symbol of tradition in minor arts, since they will be painted on dishes and on majolicae. For the most fashionable visitors there are also places where local recipes meet the island jet set environments. So how could we forget to tell you about the famous Quisisana restaurant, and hotel, a place where some famous people have stopped sometimes, and a place where it is possible to taste the most refined, Gualtiero Marchesi's cookery, who is the guru of the new gastronomy art. Wine paths offered by the three islands are also very interesting. The wine produced in this area seem to have positively taken profit of the volcanic earth, and of the sea influences, always offering products of good quality and valuable taste. Ischia island, because of its volcanic origin and territory, it is also a country of great wines, and a privileged destination for wine tourists, who can very often find very qualified wine cellars where they can taste good wines. Many of the proposed tours and itineraries offer the possibility to observe the wine making processes, and to be guided inside historical wine cellars. Here it is possible to visit the attached rural Museum, wisely prepared, and where there are plenty of finds. The Museum offers the opportunity to discover Ischia wine history. The wine production definitely aims at local vineyards, such as the red "Piedirosso" and "Guarnaccia", which can quietly be tasted with the guide of experienced sommeliers in the firm reception hall. In Forio it is also possible to find interesting paths similar to those of Pietratorcia whose name brings to the great rock of used tufo, before the press got into use, to press grapes thanks to a clever and complex system of ropes and levers. An ancient model of this machinery is preserved every year, in the day dedicated to the grapes harvest. The wonderful cellars and the beautiful vineyards are open to the public for visits and tastings with the chanche to taste delicious dishes inspired to Ischia country cookery, under a wine vine-trellis of grapevines and on tables made of volcanic stone, where it is also possible to eat upon reservation. Bread and tomato is one of the unforgettable dishes, since bread is still backed in firewood oven, leavened with criscito, and the small Ischia tomatoes, thanks to the volcanic ground and to the generous sun of the island are tasty and sweet. Before leaving the vineyard let's have a look to the "Fosso dei Conigli" (the Rabbits Ditch), a place where you are likely to sea rabbits, one of them "will suddenly appear before your eyes". As an alternative it is possible to visit one of the wonderful tufo caves that cross the hill dominating Ischia harbour and overlooking the bench of the famous right shore, where there is one of the most ancient Ischia wine houses, which was founded on 1880 by Alfonso Perrazzo, who is also been producing since the '90s liqueurs, such as for example the original rucolino, a rocket salade bitter, and other delightful ingredients, with a very recalling label "Ischia Sapori". The last stop of this wine gastronomic tour is in Capri, where wine tradition, dates-back to three thousand years ago, and whose wine was particularly appreciated by Tiberio who used to taste this ancient nectar.

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Best Pizza in Ischia...perhaps around Naples

“La Strambata” served the best pizza I ate in Ischia, perhaps around Naples.
The Pizza was exactly what expected pizza in Italy to taste like. It was fandidily-tastic. Fresh meat and nicely baked crust. All for 7euros. Plus a 1L bottle of mineral water for 2euros. They also have an excellent menu, with wonderful insalate.
The Pizzeria is in the main square in the historical center of Forio d' Ischia. A very nice dining experience - quite reasonably priced especially given it's wonderful location with view of main square of Forio.

Boat Trip around Island

From Ischia Port there are many boats available to take you around the island. Price is 20/25 euro but It is a wonderful trip. The boat will stop in the major ports like Casamicciola and Forio to pick more passengers. Then the boat will tie up in Sant Angelo and you will have time to go visit this other port town. If you would like to do this tour, just come to Ischia Port or Forio or Casamicciola around 9:00/10:00 am and look for the boats lined up. You could buy tickets in advance, but with the number of boats lined up ready to go, there is really no need.The tour will take you completely around the island and bring you back to the starting point.

Rolex Capri Sailing Week 2006

The Rolex Capri Sailing Week is underway, with a 35 strong fleet battling for honours in Italy. So far Vincenzo ONORATO’s (ITA) Mascalzone Latino has made all the running in the Farr 40, whilst Leonardo FERRAGAMO’s (ITA) Cuordileone tops the Swan 45 leaderboard.

Day two of the Rolex Capri Sailing Week, organized by the Yacht Club Capri and the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda, saw the fleet set out at around midday in torrential rain and south westerly winds of around ten knots which gradually gave way to sunshine, blue skies and a breeze which had dropped to around six to seven knots and shifted to the southeast by mid afternoon.
The Race Committee stuck to first day formula with the Mini-Maxi and Comet divisions taking the first start before setting out on a coastal course of around 33 miles. The Farr 40 division and the Swan 45’s meanwhile competed on a windward-leeward course which the Race Committee was forced to re-position several times due to the continually shifting winds.
Mascalzone Stays On Top
Yesterday’s first race was won by Mascalzone Latino for the Farr 40s, while shifting winds in the second race meant none of the fleet managed to attain a firm lead until TWT, owned by Marco RODOLFI (ITA) and with Tiziano NAVA (ITA) calling tactics, soared ahead to take victory.
'Today’s sailing was very difficult, things went better for us in the second race although the shifty conditions after the rain passed were very tricky. We made the right decisions today,' commented NAVA. Overall results for the class, after five races, see Mascalzone Latino holding onto a firm lead on 16 points, eight points ahead of Giovanni MASPERO’s (ITA) Joe Fly and Serena GIANLUIGI’s (ITA) Enfant Terrible, which are both on 23 points. The Rolex Capri Sailing Week constitutes the second leg of the Farr 40 European Circuit which will next move to Porto Cervo from 1-3 June.
Swan 45 Battle
The Swan 45’s saw Andrea MASI’s (ITA) Startrading take the first race of the day while Carlo PERRONE’s (ITA) Atlantica Racing won the second. Nautor’s Swan boss FERRAGAMO’s Cuordileone managed a third and sixth place respectively, which was enough to remain in first place overall on 15 points, while Marco SALVI’s (ITA) Vertigo, with ex-Team New Zealander Hamish PEPPER (NZL) onboard, is in second place with 17 points ahead of Mintaka, owned by Stefano POLTI (ITA), on 20.
The Mini-Maxi and Comet divisions struggled with the shifting winds on a course which should have them from Capri north to Napoli before heading back down to the port of Capri. The Race Committee’s decision to score Friday’s coastal course as two races meant that Massimo VIOLATI’s (ITA) Ops 5 started the day with two firsts and hence first place overall in the Mini-Maxi division. Among the Comets, first place in corrected time, was claimed by Lino RONCONE’s (ITA) Andromeda and Guido MORISCO’s (ITA) Nur respectively, with Andromeda in first place overall heading into race three.
The fleet’s slow progress led the race committee to shorten the course to around 20 miles with Nur once again coming in first on corrected time among the Comets, while Giorgio RUFFO’s (ITA) Aleph took victory for the first time among the Mini-Maxi’s. The overall classification for the Mini-Maxi division sees Ops 5 and Aleph in first and second on four and five points respectively, ahead of third place Sei Tu II on nine points. A similarly tight situation among the Comets has Nur and Ola on five and six respectively, with Andromeda in third place on eight points.
Onsite meteorologist Filippo PETTRUCCI predicts another cloudy start to today, with skies clearing in the afternoon and light winds moving from west or southwest. Racing in today’s third and penultimate day of the Rolex Capri Sailing Week is due to start at 1200 local time.
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Particular Thermal Springs in Ischia

Ischia springs are known since remote times: they have been studied and classified according to therapeutic features by many Italian and foreign scientists, starting from 1300. Hot and boiling waters are used in baths and thermal gardens; there are as well small springs on some beaches and streams of spouting hot water gushing into the sea as well as steam spouts with gases gushing from cracks in the soil (fumaroles). Fumaroles can be observed on the slopes of the Epomeo, particularly in cold days, or are located into small caves , called “stoves”, and idiomatically “sudatori” or “sudaturi” (from the Italian verb meaning “to perspire”) which are used as a kind of sauna in baths and thermal gardens. Springs and spouting steam can be considered as the manifest sign of Ischia volcanic origins and of the still persisting volcanic activity. The particular features of the subsoil, due to its structure and chemical composition affect the minerals content and the degree of infiltration of sea and rain water . According to many scientists’ opinion location and features of the springs are affected by the combination of the above mentioned factors. The most ancient springs are those of Casamicciola, consacrated to the god Apollo, those of Lacco Ameno consacrated to Hercules, those of Citara in Forio consacrated to Venus Citarea, and those of Barano consacrated to Nitrodi Nymphs.

Gurgitello
This group of springs was called by Romans “Gurges” because of a steaming stream flowing towards the sea nearby Pio Monte della Misericordia. It was considered by the historian Giulio Iasolino the most important spring of the island of Ischia. It is located in Casamicciola Terme, on the eastern side of Piazza Bagni, at the foot of the hill called Ombrasco, few metres deep and 30 metres above the sea level. It has a surface of 12.000 m2. Here flow together all the springs of Ombrasco called Gurgitello, Stomaco, Cappone (Cappone means “Capon” and according to references by Iasolino the name derives from the fact that water tasted like capon broth), Oro, Argento, Ferro, cala dell’Ombrasco and Santa Maria del Popolo. Water from these springs is very limpid, colourless, odourless, with a taste a little salted and alkaline; they are slightly oily and occasionally sparkly. Temperature slightly varies between springs: it fluctuates between 60°C and 65°C. Water is salt-bicarbonate-alkaline. So it is used to cure diseases of the digestive apparatus and metabolic disturbances, cerebro-spinal deseases, respiratory mucous diseases and desease of the uro-gentitalia, post-traumatic aches derived from lesions, luxations, fractures and so on. Thermal mud from the same spring is supposed to be able to shoote rheumatic and articulations pains, since 1800

Dining in Ischia

Pescatore means fisherman, so it's clear that The house speciality is seafood. The restaurant is very popular and often full and the surrounding quaint: lots of fishing nets on the walls, and all sorts of fishing stuff. If the decor seems rustic, the place is actually not... it's well known for fine southern-Italian dining. All dishes are carefully prepared and well-presented. If you dont like seafood ask for the coniglio all'ischitana (rabbit ischia-style). It's one of traditional specialities, with lots of herbs and spices. Simply delicious!

Dal Pescatore: Piazza Ottorino Troia 5 - Ischia (Italy), Italy (081) 904267; Average Price: $35.00

Day Trip to Island of Procida

Procida is a little Island about 30 minutes by hydrofoil from Ischia. It’s one of Italy’s best kept secrets: the houses are simple and coloured in soft pastel tones, fishermen’s boats dot the harbours, the people are friendly and either work as fishermen or for the tourist industry. It’s rural Italy at its best, especially in the locations of Corricella and Porto. It’s original, unspoiled, charming. It may be off the beaten path, but, at the same time, it’s been to everyone’s home, or nearly so. Why? Well, it’s all to do with a movie, an Italian movie: oscar-winning il Postino (the postman, from the book of Pablo Neruda), with the late great Italian actor Massimo Troisi. To visit the island you can either take a bus or, even better, hire one of those funny-looking 3-wheeled vehicle taxis (called “ape” -bee- in Italy) to go around the island. Most roads are very narrow, and buses can’t go there. Needless to say, you can get the best views from remote places. There are only a handful of villages on the island, so you can visit them all easily on a day tour. Another place where they can take you and buses don’t go to, is the little island of Capo Miseno. A bridge links it to the main island. It’s deserted and it’s a natural reserve: a great place to go for beautiful walks Procida is very famous for its lemons… so it’s also the best place to buy a typical southern-Italian lemon flavoured liqueir: limoncello (sometimes also called limoncino). It’s delicious and it’s also meant to be served very cold: normally the bottle and its shot glasses are places in the freezer for a few minutes before serving.

SkyEurope launches direct flights from Bratislava to Naples

SkyEurope Airlines is launching a brand new service from Bratislava to Naples as of 18th of June 2006. The new route serving Naples International Airport will be operated twice a week on Wednesdays and Sundays.
Sky Europes new Boeing 737-700 winglets (skyeurope.com)With this new flight, SkyEurope is increasing its network to Italy by an additional important connection linking Bratislava with Naples, the capital of the Campania region and the largest city in Southern Italy. T
he new service will allow to get easy access to the cultural and touristy hot spots in the South of Italy such as Capri, Sorrento and Ischia, as well as opening a perfect gateway to Sicily.
- By adding Naples as additional destination from Central Europe, SkyEurope is extending its presence in Italy and linking for the first time the Southern Italian regions with a true low fare offer. This summer we will provide direct flights from our main bases in Bratislava, Budapest, Krakow and Prague, said Christian Mandl, CEO of SkyEurope Airlines.

Susana Walton: Garden planted in marriage and music

The frame is stooped, the gait a little halting, but the spirit glows as strongly as in 1948, when Susana Valeria Rosa Maria Gil Passo first caught the eye of the composer William Walton during his fateful visit to Buenos Aires. They married eight weeks later to form a lifelong partnership.She was in Washington last week, giving a number of public and private appearances in connection with a performance of Walton's choral music at the Kennedy Center.But she was an ambassador as well for the music of gardening, and for the symphony of plants she calls La Mortella. Her hillside garden on the island of Ischia, in the Bay of Naples, is now bursting into bloom with the jade vine, which her head gardener calls “the most beautiful climber you can think of.”The camellias are lingering, the hardy geraniums are about to flower and the jacaranda tree will soon follow.In the 23 years since her husband's death, Susana Walton has taken the garden to new heights, adding, for example, a lakeside Thai pavilion and an orchid house, and turned her Eden into a beacon of horticulture by opening it to the public.Her book on its creation (“La Mortella: An Italian Garden Paradise”), published in 2002, reveals a place lush in its water features, palms, tree ferns and cycads. It also lays out an amazing story of transformation of what was once so barren and dry a piece of ground that when the couple first toured it with their friend Laurence Olivier, he counseled against buying “a stone quarry.”
But something drew them to the site, and they named it for the myrtle that covered the hills. Olivier returned to see the property transformed and as a testament to what can be done if you stay in one place long enough, have a vision, and are not put off by such small inconveniences as a lack of money or uncooperative local bureaucrats.Her Washington visit, organized by the Washington Chorus, included visits to gardens in Georgetown.At Tudor Place, for instance, she found the early stirring spring agreeable, but her biggest task was to try to keep her mind off La Mortella and not fret about all the seasonal tasks that dedicated gardeners worry about.Susana Walton had expected to make her life in England, where Walton was already an established cultural figure after World War II, but he told her he needed a warmer, sunnier climate and a place where he could work in solitude.
He was so sensitive to sound that he had a valve in his music room to turn off a fountain when it bothered him.By that point La Mortella had the luxury of running water, but when the Waltons began the whole island was without municipal water.Another early visitor to the arid, five acres of rock, landscape architect Russell Page, told Susana Walton to forget about ponds and fountains and forming a verdant paradise at La Mortella.A top-flight plantsman who took elegant settings and made them better, Page suggested she go with the type of silver-leaved Mediterranean plants that grow in a place where there is little or no rainfall for five months of the year.For 12 years she put his plan into effect, aided by her innate gardening instincts to improve the soil. The site had one thing going for it, at least at its base: a thick layer of rich volcanic soil.And one of her first acts was to arrange for the organic refuse from the neighborhood to be composted on the site. She screened it and worked it into the plantings.By the time Page returned, the very nature of the garden had altered. Water had been piped to Ischia from the mainland about five miles away: After many thousands of years of settlement, the island was no longer reliant on wells and cisterns.This development allowed Page to design three additional fountains and, much later, a decorative canal in the same reverential way that Arabian and Persian gardens honor the rarity of water in a dry land.In the lower reaches of the garden, trees that Susana Walton had planted were beginning to provide the shade that would permit a different type of flora. She chose the American tulip tree, which found La Mortella just cool enough to flourish. The temperatures come close to freezing in winter, sometimes too close, forcing a major annual undertaking in November to cover and protect the most vulnerable subtropical beauties, including the lemon trees.Susana Walton attributes the lush transformation of the garden to a single act. When her husband was touring Australia and New Zealand in 1964, he sent back three tree ferns in a shoebox. These flourished thanks to careful siting and coddling with water, and Page changed his mind about La Mortella being a dry place and urged the mass planting of the ferns. In time, she took to the appeal of other primal subtropical plants, including the palmlike cycads. Visitors to the site marvel at the health and vigor of the plantings. It would be easy, given Susana Walton's flair, to think they are responding to something more than just green fingers. As for the palms, for instance, she says, “You have to wave at them when you go by because they think you haven't paid attention.”She said that in their early days at La Mortella, her main mission was to create an environment that nurtured her husband's work.As the garden developed into something special, it became its own driving force and is still a work in progress for its 80-year-old matron. Her husband's ashes are interred in a rock at the top of the garden.Today, the 60,000 visitors from April 1 to Nov. 15 find an aquatic greenhouse for growing the Victoria lily, the world's biggest waterlily and one that continues to dazzle plant lovers long after its arrival from South America. Like Lady Walton herself.

Ischia Film festival 2006, The international film competition

There are now only 20 days remaining until the deadline for the entry of works for the fourth edition of the Ischia Film Festival, the international film competition under the overall patronage of the President of the Republic of Italy which awards those works which have done the most to promote “locations”.
It is well known that cinema can instil in the public a range of emotions which few other forms of communication can and the Ischia Film Festival would like to give the appropriate recognition to the works, the directors, the directors of photography and the art directors who through their art have managed to describe places, tradition, the culture and the emotions of a place and to inspire in the audience the wish to visit them. Feature Films, Shorts and Documentaries can enter the competition which have done the most to promote or make use of a “location” either in Italy or abroad and which have represented this location on a human, historical and social level as well as that of place.The Ischia Film Festival also aims to be a place of research, study and debate on international cinema and its relationship with Movie Tourism (Cineturismo). Now on its fourth edition the Ischia Film Festival has become one of the most prestigious amongst the list of cultural and film events held in Italy. Figures of the stature of Vittorio Storaro, Sir Ken Adam, Carlo Rambaldi, Osvaldo Desideri, Alan Lee, Carlo Lizzani, Luciano Emmer, Cinzia Th Torrini, Shaila Rubin, Vittorio Giacci, Francesco Frigeri, as well as up and coming stars of Italian cinema such as Vincenzo Marra, Francesco Patierno, Costanza Quatriglio, Francesco Munzi, Giorgio Pasotti, Donatella Finocchiaro who have done much through their talent and enthusiasm to enrich the event.Works such as “Pater Familias”, “Respiro”, “Saimir” “La storia del cammello che piange” have received their just recognition at the Festival together with International prizes to Mel Gibson’s “The Passion and Wes Anderson’s “Life Aquatic”. The works to be entered into the competition must reach the secretary of the Festival by the 15th April 2006 together with the official Entry Form which can be downloaded from www.ischiafilmfestival.it

Skyline di Ischia da Google Earth

Prof.Jan Sula - Praga - Biomudulation

Famous Prof. Sula prox operating also in Ischia during summer's holidays with his equipe of fisioterapist,
All interested please contact as following:
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BIOMODULATION
Until recently the consideration of health and disease had not been precisely defined.With the discovery of receptors for opiates it became clear that the human body possesses the ability to correct all abnormalities. The further research showed that all diseases are the result of a faulty communication between the governing systems of organism: the Central neural system, the Endocrine system, the Immune systemthe Gastrointestinal system.Whenever this communication is impeded it results in a disease.Biomodulation is a therapeutic approach which releases a correct communication between the four governing systems of the human organism. Whenever this is achieved a majority of chronic diseases improve themselves.
New way of conquering chronic diseases without chemical drugs.
TREATMENT
Eventually a therapeutic approach was developed with the intention of replacing immunogenic peptides on receptors of cells in order to restore the normal communication within the body. Using this method all research clinical trials showed remarkable ability of the human body to return from the disease state to a complete health,

INDICATIONS

The main indication for this form of therapy are diseases where the immune mechanism plays role or where the immune mechanism is the actual cause of the disease (allergies, some diseases resulting from allergies, rheumatoid arthritis and related collagen tissue diseases, symptoms and signs resulting from ageing etc.)
See the list of indications
Rheumatiod Arthritis (other autoimmune joint diseases)
Allergies and disorders arising from allergic mechanisms
Blood diseases (anemia, purpura, leucopenia)
Autoimmune collagen diseases
Autoimmune dermatologic diseases (e.g. psoriasis)
Active chronic hepatitis B,C
Sclerodermia
Optic nerve weakening
Colitis
Muscles atrophy
Gastric ulcer
Endocrine system disorders
Complex symptoms of ageing - antiageing therapy
Chronic fatigue syndrom


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Presentation of "villa La Mortella"

William Walton, one of Britain's most important contemporary composers lived on Ischia since 1949. "La Mortella" is the magnificent garden, recently opened to the public, that he and his wife Susana built on the hill of Zaro, an attractive and evocative corner of the island.The garden was started in 1956, it was wrested from a gigantic stone quarry of volcanic origin and was designed to give relief to the composer from his exacting work, by Russell Page, the eminent landscape architect. The garden extends over an area of nearly 20.000 square metres and holds a collection of over 1,000 different rare and exotic plants. It has become, together with Ravello's Villa Cimbrone and the famous gardens of the Palace of Caserta, a compelling place for visitors to make for, when in the Naples area. A welcoming tea-house perches on the hillside where, accompanied by the strains of Sir William's music, you can taste several different English teas, from Fortnum and Mason, or order a 'Cappuccino'. While in a hidden corner at the top of the hill, a charming Thai Sala looks over the lotus pool and invites you to reflection and contemplation accompanied by the soft sound of the stream that sparkles in the sun while winding its way down to the crocodile cascade. The Museum holds an interesting collection of photographs of the composer and his friends taken by the fashionable artist Cecil Beaton, a much admired forerunner of tasteThe well known and loved designer, Lele Luzzati, has left his imprint in "the theatre within a theatre", depicting a fabled garden peopled by the characters out of the composer's most important works.The William Walton Trust and the Fondazione, whose Patron is H.R.R. The Prince of Wales, organise a yearly prestigious masterclass for talented young singers.

Fioriture Rare

On the walk round the main fountain you will notice a clump forming Chilean cycad, the Puya berteroniana, which has an amazing inflorescence: an erect spike-like panicle, which starts out as woolly, silver floral bract that develops into two metre long blue-green spears, each flower exhibiting a conspicuous orange eye.


Spathodea campanulata
From tropical Africa comes Spathodea campanulata, valued for its tight clusters of downy buds which open to reveal brilliant, flame scarlet, cup-shaped blooms, individually fugitive but carried in succession. Usually this tree cannot survive with us except in a warm conservatory. It grows here in the open because I have carefully planted it under the huge rocks of the hill, so that even in winter, it receives the benefit of the heat from the sun stored in the rock-face behind the tree.
Strongylodon macrobotrys

Ischia Film Festival 20-25 june

The Festival of Ischia is the only event in the world to award a prize to a film in post - production. A recommendation of and a thanks to those foreign productions that have chosen Europe and Italy in particular as a set for their films. These films often promote the locations and turn them into tourist attractions. It is no conicidence that the first foreign award was given to Mel Gibson's film "The Passion". The Ischia Film Festival therefore anticipated the phenomenon of the tourist boom at Matera during the first edition of the Festival in sEptember 2003.

AWARDS
Foreign Award
Coral Ciak
Official selection
Special awards
SHOWS
Dream Bilders
Space atmosphere
Passion
Peppone e Camillo
MEETINGS with
"The Life Acquatic" wins the Foreign Award 2004
Luciano Emmer
The International Festival of Cineturismo awarded the Foreign Award 2004 to “The Life Aquatic”, written and directed by Wes Andersson. The award is given to foreign films in post-production shot in Europe which have promoted Italy as a location through the film. Produced by Disney and shot in Ponza, Anzio, Naples and Cinecittà studios, the film stars Bill Murray in the part of the film making oceanographer Steve Zissou, a character clearly inspired by Jacques Cousteau. "The Life Aquatic" looks set to become a box office hit: an exceptional cast - Anjelica Huston, Cate Blanchett, Willem Dafoe, underwater scenes with great special effects, and an individual and exceptional director such as Anderson following on from his success with The Tenenbaums. A certain success. The producers will come to Ischia to collect the prize..
Luca Verdone
Silvio Danese
Art Directors
CONFERENCES
When movies ..
The Movie tourism..
PROGRAMM
200320042005

GUEST BOOK
The first Foreign Film Award goes to Mel Gibson's "The Passion"
PHOTO ALBUM
GADGETS
The Foreign Film Festival, a new cinema event currently taking place in Ischia aimed at featuring Italian and European locations, gave the award to Mel Gibson on the final evening of the festival for the film "The Passion" which focuses on the last 12 hours of the life of Jesus Christ. The set designer Francesco Frigeri will accept the prize. He chose the plateau of Matera, a particularly evocative place, to recreate ancient Jerusalem and the hill of Golgotha.