
"Going down towards the sea, St. Angelo appears surrounded by air of peace. Escaping from central part of the Island, first of all, stands the homonym islet with its cliffs and rocks above the waves, accessible only from the North-East by a stretch of sand 119.50 meters long and 30 meters wide to close the Island. It is a rock of volcanic origin 105 meters high. A gigantic altar beneath the sky, an altar shrouded in mystery and historical splendours where the cult of St. Michael the Archangel established, the guardian angel that gave name to the village".
Don Pietro Monti (1915 - 2008), the priest-archaeologist discovered, in the 1950s, a treasure of ancient memories on the floor of the church, the Sanctuary of Santa Restituta in Lacco Ameno, so described by St. Angelo in his remarkable work about the history and Archaeology of the Island of Ischia.





Mr. Franco Napoleone, former medical director of Anna Rizzoli Hospital in Lacco Ameno, today is 73 years old and for 30 years is leader of the association Associazione Pro Loco S. Alessandro and with his friends Rosaria Buono, Gilberto Buono, Giovanni Cervera, Renato Troise and Teresa Cuomo, organizes the parade in costumes of the great eras of the Island of Ischia, which takes place on the occasion of the St. Alexander day on Friday, August 26 with about 300 people. It starts with the Greek colonization in the VIII century BC , through the Renaissance, focusing on the figures of the poet Vittoria Colonna and her husband Lord of Ischia, Don Ferrante d' Avalos. There are princes of royal blood and the blue bloods but also the lower classes of peasants and fishermen and, finally, the period of the Bourbon kings Charles III and Ferdinand IV and the French decade - 1806-1915 - with Joachim Murat and with the Restoration with Ferdinand II.
"...Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be. And whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul". The letter found in the church of Saint Paul in Baltimore, Canada 1962, is a legendary symbol of wisdom occurred to me while I entered the Basilica Pontificia of Saint Vito, Forio mother church, on Sunday May 15th at 9 o'clock.
If we wanted to remember the time of the “Dolce Vita Ischitana”, which could be the symbol to identify it? The steamboat “Sereno” by Angelo Rizzoli which can the ‘world’ house? Or Burton and Taylor with their quarrels because of the movie “Cleopatra” shots? And why not Mina in the duet with Paul Anka at “Rancio Fellone”?. All these characters have a common denominator: the “motacarrozella” (a type of sidecar).






