Lying on the sea, Lacco Ameno extends in the northwestern part of Ischia and extends along the slopes of Mount Epomeo, the most ugrave; high of the island. It is the smallest municipality on the island, but perhaps it is also the most famous.

Lacco Ameno is frequented every year by a cosmopolitan tourism that is attracted by the happy and inviable combination that binds the placid blue sea to beauty of the town.

But the international dimension was born from afar, directly from the shining fifties when the patron publisher Angelo Rizzoli fell in love with the country so much that he took care of the spa complex that dominated the island and expanded it, making you also build a hotel center.

Soon, the worldliness of the time began to feel the call of the island and began to attend it assiduously.

Mass tourism followed the worldliness, also attracted by the 'Mushroom', a particular rock in the shape of a mushroom, precisely ten meters high and positioned at a stone's throw from the shore.

It is green tuff and was erupted from the mouth of Mount Epomeo and eroded over the centuries by the action of the sea.

Lacco Ameno was the first colony founded by the Greeks in southern Italy. The oldest settlement dates back to the eighth century before Christ, according to the analysis of the tableware found there.

There is no doubt that today the majority of tourism is recalled by the goodness of the waters, among which we remember those of the Woods, the Capital, the Queen Isabella.

But Lacco Ameno is not only a spa. In the historic center stands out the Santa Restituta complex, which consists of two churches, a crypt and a museum. Originally, there was a Roman cistern on site and from the fourth century it has housed an early Christian basilica. But then the Carmelites modified the plant, as a result the current church dates back to the sixteenth century and its facade was rebuilt in the neoclassical period, while the amp; #39; other is older and you can date it within the 11th century. The crypt, in all likelihood obtained from a Roman building, preserves numerous frescoes and houses several tombs.