Forio d’Ischia
Ischia is the largest island in the bay of Naples and is considered by many to be the most beautiful, though Capri is considerably more famous. It is volcanic in origin and still classed as an active volcano, but it has not erupted since 1302.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 17,600 residents
- Description: Italian comune
- Also known as: “Forio”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Basilica di Santa Maria di Loreto and San Gaetano.
Basilica di Santa Maria di Loreto
Church
Photo: Sailko, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Basilica di Santa Maria di Loreto is a church.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Panza and Ischia.
Panza
Village
Panza is a small town of 7,000 inhabitants on the island of Ischia, Italy. It is a hamlet of the municipality of Forio. Panza is situated 3½ km south of Forio d’Ischia.
Ischia
Photo: Dr.Conati, Public domain.
Ischia is the largest island in the bay of Naples and is considered by many to be the most beautiful, though Capri is considerably more famous. It is volcanic in origin and still classed as an active volcano, but it has not erupted since 1302.
Sant’Angelo
Sant’Angelo is an old fishing village on the island of Ischia that has turned into an international tourist resort. No cars are allowed to drive in Sant’Angelo and unlike the other Ischia’s villages it’s still a peaceful oasis.Forio d’Ischia
- Categories: commune of Italy and locality
- Location: Forio, Metropolitan Naples, Campania, Southern Italy, Italy, Europe
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Latitude
40.73684° or 40° 44′ 13″ northLongitude
13.85814° or 13° 51′ 29″ eastPopulation
17,600Elevation
18 metres (59 feet)United Nations Location Code
IT FRDOpen location code
8FGMPVP5+P7OpenStreetMap ID
node 68580850OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Forio d’Ischia” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “فوريو”
- Aragonese: “Forio”
- Armenian: “Ֆորիո”
- Basque: “Forio”
- Belarusian: “Форыа”
- Breton: “Forio”
- Bulgarian: “Форио”
- Catalan: “Forio”
- Cebuano: “Forio”
- Chechen: “Форио”
- Chinese: “Forio”
- Chinese: “福里奥”
- Czech: “Forio”
- Dutch: “Forio”
- Esperanto: “Forio”
- French: “Forio”
- German: “Forio”
- Greek: “Φόριο”
- Hebrew: “פוריו”
- Hungarian: “Forio”
- Indonesian: “Forio”
- Interlingua: “Forio”
- Irish: “Forio”
- Italian: “Forio d’Ischia”
- Italian: “Forio”
- Japanese: “フォリーオ”
- Kazakh: “Форио”
- Korean: “포리오”
- Kurdish: “Forio”
- Ladin: “Forio”
- Latin: “Forigium”
- Latin: “Forium”
- Lithuanian: “Forijas”
- Lithuanian: “Forijus”
- Lombard: “Forio”
- Malay: “Forio”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Forio”
- Neapolitan: “Forio”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Forio”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Forio”
- Persian: “فوریو”
- Piemontese: “Forio”
- Polish: “Forio”
- Portuguese: “Forio”
- Romanian: “Forio”
- Russian: “Форио”
- Serbian: “Forio”
- Serbian: “Форио”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Forio, Napoli”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Forio”
- Sicilian: “Furìu”
- Slovenian: “Forio”
- South Azerbaijani: “فوریو”
- Spanish: “Forio”
- Swedish: “Forio”
- Tagalog: “Forio”
- Tatar: “Форио”
- Turkish: “Forio”
- Ukrainian: “Форіо”
- Uzbek: “Forio”
- Venetian: “Forio”
- Volapük: “Forio”
- Waray (Philippines): “Forio”
- “Forio”
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