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Ischia

Ischia is a volcanic island in the Tyrrhenian Sea, at the northern end of the Gulf of Naples. The roughly trapezoidal island lies 17.5 miles from Naples and measures around 10 km East to West and 7 km North to South with a 34 km coastline and a surface area of 46.3 km². It is almost entirely mountainous with the highest peak being volcanic Mt. Epomeo at 788 meters: the volcano was active in Classical times [1]. It has a population of nearly 58,000 people. Ischia is also the principal city (pop.17,256) of the island, divided into Ischia Ponte and Ischia Porto. The main industry is tourism, centering on thermal parks that cater mostly to European and Asian tourist clients eager to enjoy the fruits of the island's natural volcanic activity and highly nutritious volcanic mud. The name Virgil poetically referred to it as Inarime and still later as Arime[2]...