Beaches

 If you are going to come to Ischia looking for some of the most beautiful beaches in the world, you will not be disappointed. With beautiful white sand, sparkling blue water, calm waves, and cliffs and awe-inspiring landscapes surrounding you, you might start to question ever returning home.

Citara Beach

Into the harbour area is the trading part of the town and another important area is that one around the "Castello Aragonese" which is called "Ischia Ponte", a picturesque ancient fisher's village. The evocative Ischia's harbour was originally the crater of a volcanonow extinct and sunk which originated a lake. It remained a lake until 1854 when the King Ferdinand of Bourbon ordered to force a passage opening the harbour. In the area of Ischia happened the last volcanic event on the island: in 1301 from a crater opened in the Fiaiano's area and a lava flow run down to the sea, covering houses and fields, giving origin to the actual "Punta Molino".

Cava dell'Isola Beach

On the underground floor of the Church of Santa Restituta has been retrieved and restored, due to the engagement of Don Pietro Monti, an important archaeological site. The excavations testify the human settlements from the time of Pithecusae until the beginnings of Christianity: there are the ovens used by Greek potters and tombs dating to Romans and first Christians time.

Chiaia Beach

 Chiaia beach is right near the town center of Forio, is probably the most easy to reach, the water is clean and not very deep so is very good for children.

San Francesco Beach

The church called “del Soccorso” rises on the top of a promontory overlooking the sea, in Forio; it looks  like a white spot with the blue sea in the background. The outside is fully painted white and the facade reveals diverse architectural styles starting from Greek- Byzatine to Moorish  architecture.
 

Sammontano Beach

The findings in the first section witnesses the "net" of commercial exchange Pithecusaens established with Near East and Carthage, Greece and Spain, Southern Etruria, Puglia, Ionic Calabria and Sardinia. The exposition goes on with part of the objects accompanying the dead of the necropolis, located at S. Montano's valley, which served as a burial place since the second half of the VIII century BC. It must be mentioned, at this point, that the Euboic alphabet testifies the patrimony thepopulations from central Italy borrowed from the Greek of Pithecusae.

Maronti Beach

Many towers have been built in the paste along Ischia coastline to get better  sight of the sea around the island . Since the IX century,  they used to be built in order to defend the island against raids of pirates. Then, starting from the XVI century, these fortresses were equipped with cannons and fire weapons to be used against Saracens.