Visit Ischia

Description

The parish of St. Anthony dates back to the sixteenth century., since 1800 at this church there was a hermitage. The "last expansion took place in 1961, it will also deal with the area of the path that bordered on the side facing the church in Ischia, for which each passed January 17 horses and donkeys that were around the church after the blessing of animals that still wont do.
The parish was canonically erected by Bishop Dino Tomassini with a bull of 26/12/1962, civilly recognized on Ocotber 29, 1963. From November 1999 to January 2003 were performed major renovations and restoration. On the first anniversary of the pastoral visit of His Holiness John Paul II to the Church of Ischia, with Archbishop Filipo Strofaldi solemn rite church dedicated May 5, 2003.
Belonging to the parish church of St. Domenico, where, since 1469, opened a convent of Dominicans and Dominicans lived there for about two centuries.
The present church, however, is not the fifteenth century because it was partially destroyed by an earthquake in 1557. The last renovation took place in the years 1983/84 and was consecrated by Bishop Antonio Pagano May 27, 1990.
The painting of the Madonna of the Rosary is now at the center of the apse, from what has been solemnly crowned by Archbishop Filippo Strofaldi on May 25, 2003 in the year of St. Rosary proclaimed by Pope John Paul II.
Since 1870 there is a very strong veneration of Our Lady under the title of Mercy.

Description

The construction is characterized by turrets and pointed arches and small circular towers. The plan of the remaining building is square.
Initially isolated, this building is now part of a large hotel complex, situated in an area apparently not changed much, in the view from the sea.

Historical Info

Half of the Castle tower house of Louis Patalano, has an ancient history and fascinating. The name "Mezzatorre" according to the popular memory, derives from the presence of an ancient lookout tower remained unfinished from here "Half" and built between the XVI and XVII century as a watchtower by the Aragonese. It was enlarged in the eighteenth century and incorporated into a new building at the beginning of the nineteenth century, the dukes of Rancidello. The building is mentioned under the name of the Crow Tower to repair the towers in the Land of Labor in a letter dated February 13, 1741 kept at the State Archives of Naples (Room Sommaria, Consultationum, vol. 189, c. 120 -125): it would, therefore, directed the only tower in Forio. From the testimony of Ignatius Fiorentino, grandson of one of the owners of the tower, reported by Barbieri, we learn that once the tower's ground floor was occupied by a basement and first floor but there was a large room, with stowage rooms. Then there were the terraces, with two guard towers on either side of the tower. In the thirties, the tower was used as a guesthouse. One of the owners was Patalano Louis, a distinguished scholar, politician and poet foriano, founder of political-cultural magazine, which has transformed the tower into the active site of a cultural salon.