ISCHIA Embarkation island (in Casamicciola)

Ischia, an ancient volcano made up of black beaches, cliffs, rich seabeds, extraordinary vegetation and ancient culinary traditions. Endless flowers and gardens to color an intense bright green made up of vines and scrub. Ancient literature tells that it is Typhoeus, a giant who shakes the island from time to time, because he was forced to lie there by divine punishment, by Zeus, and thanks to Typhoeus, following his repentance through the intercession of Venus, that while waiting for a definitive reconciliation with Jupiter, the island obtains from the god that the giant's tears are transformed into beneficial effluvia, in hot springs, in fumaroles to cheer the inhabitants of the island.

Over the years, artists from all over Europe have spent their holidays and their cures here: Ibsen, Berkeley, Alphonse De Lamartine, Pasolini, Gianni Mura, etc. Here you will get to know the ancient and famous hospitality of the Ischians.

PONZA

The island of Ponza, the largest of the Pontine archipelago, is characterized, like the others, by very jagged shores, consisting of high banks of volcanic rock with beautiful colors, everywhere caves, small coves and picturesque beaches. Its best views can certainly be seen from the sea.

The arrival is already fascinating: the delicate semicircle of pink and white houses that surrounds the port, the small cemetery and the profile of the island offer visions of moving beauty that makes its landing place among the most beautiful in the Mediterranean.

The seabed is of a variety and beauty never seen before: shaded walls covered with gorgonians and red algae, meadows of posidonia that sway in the currents, boulders and boulders covered with delicate pavoie and acetabularia.

VENTOTENE

Ventotene attracts not only for its beauty and not only because from a place of punishment it has become a place of vacation; but perhaps also because the "marine Rome", elsewhere only a ruin, is alive here.

In fact, its port is still operating, of great charm for anyone who understands what it means to drop anchor in a truly ancient marine space: the pier of this port and its bollards, its warehouses all dug into the soft local volcanic rock, are the same as in the past, they are the same as 2000 years ago.

PALMAROLA

Perhaps there are few who appreciate his condition of solitude, silence, emptiness, wonder.

Palmarola, alone, with its multicolored volcanic rocks and deep, transparent waters, is a mirage of seabeds to be explored and discovered.

Palmarola, astonishing in its protected sleep, lulled by a transparent, whispering, reassuring sea.

Today it is a protected nature reserve; But the island, according to the traditional wisdom of the people of Ponza, has always been protected. That is why its beauty is intact