"‘N coppa Santu Nicola" ("On Saint Nicolas"). This is how Ischia inhabitants have defined their mountain for centuries.
An incomprehensible geographical indication to whoever is not from the island. It cannot be found on topographic maps, starting with the oldest one by Mario Cartaro from 1588. Who, instead, made official the name with which the hill dominating the other ones would become famous to foreigners: Epomeo.
The imagination of the contemporary traveler gets lost in the alleys, after crossing Piazza del Plebiscito, touching the Royal Palace, the San Carlo Theater, and Via Toledo, aiming here and there at the surprising green patches of Capodimonte, the vegetable gardens and the Posillipine parks and the coastal cliffs of yellow tuff.
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