Village of Lacco Ameno

Lacco Ameno is the smaller municipality of the island of Ischia, where in the VIII century B.C. Greek sailors arrived and conquered Monte Vico founding the city of Pithecusae, the built up area more ancient of the island and the first colony of the Magna Graecia. Not far from the town centre, the splendid bay of San Montano is set. The legend tells about this bay where the Enea’s boat ran aground and in the same place, centuries later, the body of Saint Restituta, patron the Lacco Ameno, was transported through the waters ashore.

Famous attractions considered symbol of Lacco Ameno is the ‘Fungo’: a tuff stone moved away from Monte Epomeo and go down into the sea. The erosions of sea have created, afterwards, its typical form.