Historical spas on the island of Ischia The first evidence of use of water for purposes other than mere survival date back to about 3500 years before the Christian era and were localized in Persia, Egypt and other Arab countries. In Europe the use of hot bath and the construction of special environments spread first in Greece, already under-age Cretan Minoan (second mill. BC), and then develop Corsican Mycenaean age (1300-700 BC) and even more during Greece classical and Hellenistic nell'età
The geomorphological characteristics of Casamicciola Terme and neighbouring municipalities as well as the quality and variety of thermo-mineral waters which are concentrated in several basins, the peculiarities of mud and the continuing activities of fumaroles, the testimony today of volcanic origin Ischia.
This island has emerged from the sea many millennia before you approdassero, in the eighth century BC, the colonizers from certain regions of Greece. The study of geology, history, archaeology and classical sources concerning Ischia is learned that from the beginning, man was particularly attracted by the fertility of the soil and hot water that could collect and use various ways. The results obtained with the therapeutic use them were, at that time, so inexplicable even to be attributed to the power of some deity. The frequency and strength of particularly destructive eruptions of volcanoes Ischian, is hard to see why, in Roman times, while in major cities of the Thermae reached the summit of the spread of pomp and functionality, Ischia not been found even traces of buildings aimed use of hot springs and fumaroles.
At the source of Nitrodi, in the municipality of Barano were found some metopes, with bas-reliefs ie tablets, bearing inscriptions votive to nymphs which was dedicated source, which is currently stored in the National Archaeological Museum of Naples.
The effects arising from catastrophic series of events eruptions and earth, even in medieval, were once again the primary obstacle to building structures where best to use the resources of the thermal island was rich.
Over time thousands of sick returned to resort to cures confident of which, on the island of Ischia, as well as in the rest of Italy, the pre-existing fame had left some memory as time went by and the consequent deepening of knowledge chemical and physical heritage of the island of Ischia Spa has been increasingly studied, known and appreciated, in order to achieve early as 1700, the maximum European importance, is fostered by disclosure of the first published scientific works on both by capillary more information derived from reports and diaries of those travelers, educated and curious, which included Ischia between the main stages of their Grand Tour in Italy. In this era, the spas have expanded and strengthened, and nursing stations, usually located in centres very beautiful, are obliged stages in the routes of the Grand Tour that draws in Italy, more and more, travellers, educated and curious coming from the rest of Europe Their reports were the most appreciated witness real benefits of spa and beauty of the countries where Italians still remained evident signs left by the Roman civilization. The Grand Tour, or Voyage d'Italie or Englische Reise, became famous not just for the notoriety of some travelers from all over Europe, but also for their diaries, written both in literary form that figurative only point out some examples, simply remember: "Voyage pittoresque description ou des royaumes Naples and Sicily, dell'Abate Richard de Saint Non, published in Paris in 1781, about who can read, recently, the work of Petra Lamers, Travel South of de Saint Non.Il "Voyage à Pittoresque Naples et en Sicilies", the genesis, the preparatory drawings, engravings, Naples, Electa, 1995; "Englische Reise by JW Goethe, translated by E. Castellani Milan, ed. Mondadori, 1983; JFCOOPER, Viaggio in Italy (1828-1830), translated by A. Blacks, Pisa, ed.Nistri-Lischi, 1989.
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