{"id":4548,"date":"2022-04-25T08:05:13","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T12:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/?p=4548"},"modified":"2022-04-25T08:05:16","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T12:05:16","slug":"ischia-the-paradise-island-that-offers-a-taste-of-the-real-italy-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/25\/ischia-the-paradise-island-that-offers-a-taste-of-the-real-italy-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Ischia: The paradise island that offers a taste of the real Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/travel\/article\/ischia-island-italy\/index.html\">CNN <\/a>\u2014\u00a0A quietly idyllic island in the Tyrrhenian Sea, Ischia offers a heartwarming dose of Italian beauty, spirit and hospitality, with a generous splash of nostalgia for the Italy of yesteryear.\u00a0Here, five-star hotels and luxurious thermal springs are juxtaposed with scenes of Italian grandmothers hanging out laundry, religious street parades, and kids strapped on the back of adults zooming by on Vespas.\u00a0Its unspoiled beaches have long been popular with Italians, but international visitors were more likely to be drawn to the glitzier shores of nearby Capri or the Amalfi Coast.<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/http-cdn.cnn_.com-cnnnext-dam-assets-220304155513-18-ischia-italy-aragonese-castle-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4549\" srcset=\"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/http-cdn.cnn_.com-cnnnext-dam-assets-220304155513-18-ischia-italy-aragonese-castle-2.jpg 900w, https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/http-cdn.cnn_.com-cnnnext-dam-assets-220304155513-18-ischia-italy-aragonese-castle-2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/http-cdn.cnn_.com-cnnnext-dam-assets-220304155513-18-ischia-italy-aragonese-castle-2-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/http-cdn.cnn_.com-cnnnext-dam-assets-220304155513-18-ischia-italy-aragonese-castle-2-600x337.jpg 600w, https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/http-cdn.cnn_.com-cnnnext-dam-assets-220304155513-18-ischia-italy-aragonese-castle-2-107x60.jpg 107w, https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/http-cdn.cnn_.com-cnnnext-dam-assets-220304155513-18-ischia-italy-aragonese-castle-2-160x90.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/figure><p>Ischia, however, still has something which its more polished neighbors perhaps lack. You don&#8217;t need to dig deep here to find the real Italy. Ischia is a little less manufactured, a little more in-your-face and ultimately, that little more authentic.And now, finally, it&#8217;s having a moment.\u00a0The rise of what Italians call &#8220;the green island&#8221; has gone a little something like this. Firstly, its famous tufa rocks, narrow streets and bougainvillea-draped landscapes became one of the backdrops for Elena Ferrante&#8217;s Neapolitan novels, global bestsellers turned hit TV show.<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/http-cdn.cnn_.com-cnnnext-dam-assets-220304154840-14-ischia-italy-casamicciola-beach.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/http-cdn.cnn_.com-cnnnext-dam-assets-220304154840-14-ischia-italy-casamicciola-beach.jpg 900w, https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/http-cdn.cnn_.com-cnnnext-dam-assets-220304154840-14-ischia-italy-casamicciola-beach-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/http-cdn.cnn_.com-cnnnext-dam-assets-220304154840-14-ischia-italy-casamicciola-beach-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/http-cdn.cnn_.com-cnnnext-dam-assets-220304154840-14-ischia-italy-casamicciola-beach-600x337.jpg 600w, https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/http-cdn.cnn_.com-cnnnext-dam-assets-220304154840-14-ischia-italy-casamicciola-beach-107x60.jpg 107w, https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/http-cdn.cnn_.com-cnnnext-dam-assets-220304154840-14-ischia-italy-casamicciola-beach-160x90.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\"><div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/travel\/article\/ischia-island-italy\/index.html\">Read more here<\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN \u2014\u00a0A quietly idyllic island in the Tyrrhenian Sea, Ischia offers a heartwarming dose of Italian beauty, spirit and hospitality, with a generous splash of nostalgia for the Italy of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4549,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4548","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/http-cdn.cnn_.com-cnnnext-dam-assets-220304155513-18-ischia-italy-aragonese-castle-2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4551,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4548\/revisions\/4551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}