What to see in Lacco Ameno, itinerary including the main attractions in the locality of Ischia, including Negombo, mushroom beach, Santa Restituta Church and Archaeological Museum.
Tourist information
Located in the northern end of the island of Ischia, Lacco Ameno is famous for the mushroom, a block of tuff ten meters high located not far from the beach, whose shape was forged by the erosion caused by the sea added to that of atmospheric agents .
Lacco Ameno is the place where the Greeks founded the ancient town of Pitecussai in the eighth century before Christ.
The center of Lacco Ameno is characterized by small white houses, eighteenth-century churches and palaces adjacent to newly built hotels and prestigious shops.
Among the main monuments and places of interest is the Santa Restituta Church, dating back to 1300, built in the same place where previously there was a paleochristian basilica of the fifth century.
Inside the Sanctuary, destroyed by the 1883 earthquake and later rebuilt, there is a statue of Santa Restituta, made of gilded wood and dating back to 1500, in addition to the relics of the Saint placed under the altar.
Adjacent to the Sanctuary are the excavations, with the museum and the crypt of the original basilica.
There are Greek, Roman and Byzantine artifacts, including cinerary urns, memorial stones and honorifics, funeral furnishings, coins and architectural fragments.
What see
On Monte Vico is located the Aragonese Tower which, dating back to 1400, had functions of sighting and defense against Saracen raids.
The tower, with a square plan and sides about 60 meters long, is divided into two floors.
At the top of the Arbusto hill is the splendid Villa Arbusto which, with its colonnade, dominates the bay and the center of Lacco.
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The villa, which was built in 1789 by the Duke of Atri Don Carlo Acquaviva, houses the Pithekossai Archaeological Museum, where artifacts from the archaeological excavations carried out in the area are preserved.
Among the objects found is the famous Nestor's Cup, coming from a tomb in the necropolis, on which is engraved, in the Euboic alphabet, a three-verse epigram which alludes to Nestor's cup described in the Iliad.
The remains of Greek colonies from the eighth and seventh centuries before Christ are visible on the Zaro promontory.
To see the bay of San Montano, where the famous Negombo beach resort is located, where the beach is bathed by a sea with a very shallow seabed near the shore.
