Forio Explained

Forio
Coordinates:40.7377°N 13.8575°W
Region:Campania
Metropolitan City:Naples (NA)
Frazioni:Panza
Mayor:Francesco Del Deo
Area Total Km2:12.85
Population Footnotes:[1]
Population Total:17749
Population As Of:1 January 2017
Population Demonym:Foriani, Panzesi
Elevation M:16
Saint:Saints Vitus and Leonard
Day:June 15, November 6
Postal Code:80075
Area Code:081

Forio (known also as Forio of Ischia) is a town and comune of c. 17,000 inhabitants in the Metropolitan City of Naples, southern Italy, situated on the island of Ischia.

Overview

Its territory includes the town of Panza, the only frazione of Forio and of the island of Ischia. Panza has always been an independent village since the 16th century when a first governmental organization was introduced on the island. In the 1975 the inhabitants of Panza tried to become an independent comune but the referendum, claimed by the inhabitants of Forio, was denied by the Campania's Regional Government.

There are numerous coastal watchtowers, built from the Middle Ages against Saracen and African pirates raids.

In the 20th century, Ischia inspired at least two well-known English language poets. Ischia was the site where W.H. Auden composed one of his most famous poems, In Praise of Limestone. And the American Poet, Theodore Roethke, dedicated his poem The Storm, to "Forio d'Ischia" as printed in Selected Poems of Theodore Rothke (Library of America, Edwin Hirsch, Ed., 2005, p.113).

See also

Twin towns

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Notes and References

  1. All demographics and other statistics: Italian statistical institute Istat.