Originally there was an Antiquarium, created in the large space that in ancient times had been used as a cistern for the inhabitants of Villa de' Bagni, the current Ischia Porto.
To him we owe the historical evidence of Pithekousai, of its pre-existence in Cumae and, therefore, of its role as a cradle of Magna Graecia. The archaeologist Georg Buchner was born in Monaco of Bavaria on 8th of August 1914, son of the famous zoologist Paul and a Venetian painter, who started to regularly frequent Ischia, living on a small of hill of Saint Alexander on 1927.
The Latin alphabet, which still uses a large part of the world's population today, has its origin in the Greek alphabet used on the island of Euboea. From there, around 790/780 BC. the settlers arrived on the island of Ischia, which they called Pithekoussai.
The smallest of the island municipalities in terms of surface area stretches on the thin strip of coast dotted by the very famous tuffaceous rock in the shape of a Mushroom,
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