![]() ![]() The rooms have a fantastic view of the bay and are quite spacious. Staff at the hotel were always friendly and helpful, particularly those on the front desk. We would love to return both to Ischia and the hotel. With ups and downs, over the centuries the spas were not completely abandoned and were rediscovered, as mentioned, at the beginning of the century, in conjunction with the enhancement of bathing.We loved staying at San Michele and would highly recommend both this hotel and the area to anyone planning a visit to Ischia. The Romans already knew and frequented these places, where stood villas and gardens of great beauty. After all, the exploitation of the thermal baths for medical and health purposes is, as we all know, ancient history. One of the strengths of Negombo is that this landscape cannot be separated from the practical function of the place. The "Strale" by Lucio del Pezzo, "The eyes of Neri and Nesti" by Laura Panno, "Sprigionamenti" by Gianfranco Pardi, "Incontri" by Simona Uberto. Il Volo, a bronze work by Giuseppe Maraniello. ![]() Last but not least, the introduction of an "artistic" path into the landscape with the installation of numerous works of contemporary art starting with the large ceramic arch by Arnaldo Pomodoro "Arc-en-ciel" and the work "Riva dei Mari". And here, from a strictly architectural point of view, the recovery of the terraces, the dry stone walls, the central staircase, the insertion of water falls on the cliffs and the creation of new thermal experiences rather than trivial pools (the Labyrinth, Maya, the Templar, Onphalos, Nesti). Hence the introduction of Mediterranean plants that were not present (or that had not survived) such as myrtle, olive tree, cork, but also, consistently with the original idea of a botanical park, the planting of new Australian or American essences, perfectly integrated into the whole (Metrosideros, Malaleuca, Macrozamia, Erytrina, etc.etc). Since 1988 the landscape designer Ermanno Casasco was in charge of the work, whose main commitment was to establish a visual continuity within the garden and develop new areas.Ĭommitment certainly completed and still today a constant “work in progress”. In the seventies the place evolved from a private to a hydrothermal park open to the public (to achieve self-financing and save this green heritage) and, in the eighties, the Duke's son, Paolo Fulceri Camerini, after having built the main swimming pools and services of bars and restaurants, he perceived the need to redesign the structure of the garden to make it a more harmonious and less 'wild' whole. Its presence is perceived but it is not in contrast with the other essences. The spirit of Mediterranean nature was not supplanted by the arrival of African, Australian, Japanese or Brazilian essences. To unite them it took a few years and not a few battles, but, in the end, cicas, cocos, Ficus elastica trees, Zamia and bird of paradise plants arrived which also justified that curious name stolen from a Ceylon bay, visited on one of the trips by the Duke. It has not been an easy task to create a unique and vast property like Negombo, since at the time the land was divided into plots cultivated as vegetable gardens owned by many different families. In Camerini's original intention, the territory was to host an irrigated botanical garden with a complex, albeit rudimentary system of tanks and crossed by paths carved into the rock of Mount Vico. The garden that we can admire today is the result of a long work begun in 1947 by Duke Luigi Silvestro Camerini, an entrepreneur and anti-fascist from Veneto (but also a traveler whom many remember perennially dressed in colonial clothes, who fell in love with the South after his confinement in Ponza), continued by the heirs and, in 1988, by the passionate intervention of Ermanno Casasco. San Montano is a deep bay enclosed between Mount Vico and the promontory of Zaro in one of the most evocative corners of Ischia, an island where the culture of bathing has spread since the early decades of the twentieth century. It is Negombo, a hydrothermal park located in the bay of San Montano in Ischia. ![]() Thermal and marine pools, woods, gardens, lush flower beds, the sea and volcanic rock: all enclosed in a single, magical and fascinating place. ![]()
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