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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. It has a population of nearly 58,000 people. Ischia is also the principal city (pop.17,256) of the island, divided into its historic centre Ischia Ponte (formerly Borgo Celsa) and Ischia Porto, the waterfront resort area. The main industry is tourism, centering on thermal spas that cater mostly to European (especially German) and Asian tourist clients eager to enjoy the fruits of the island's natural volcanic activity, its thermal hot springs, and its volcanic mud. Virgil poetically referred to it as Inarime and still later as Arime[2] Martianus Capella followed Virgil in this allusive name, which was never in common circulation: the Romans called it Aenaria, the Greeks, Pithekoussai [3]. "Pliny rightly derives the Greek name from the local ceramic clay deposits, not from pithekos (ape); he explains the Latin name as connected with Aeneas' beach-head" (Princeton Encyclopedia) The current name appears for the first time in a letter from Pope Leo III to Charlemagne in 813 (iscla from insula) though there is an argument made for a Semitic origin in I-schra, "black island". The municipal district of Ischia is in the region/district of Campania and it's in the province of Napoli. the postcode is 80070 and the code number is +39 081. Inhabitants are 18.146 and the surface is about 8 km2, with a density of population about 2.254 people for km2. Distance: from Rome 177 km, from Florence 403 km and from Venice 540 km.
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