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Christmas in Ischia 2018-2019
The enchantment of lights, the wonder in the eyes of children, everything is ready to experience a magical Christmas in Ischia. So many events until next 7 January for the joy of adults and children. A bright path will connect the fantastic pine forest, which this year for the first time is inaugurated in the Pineta Mirtina, Christmas craft markets positioned between the Piazzetta dei Pini and the square San Girolamo where the ice rink returns to give emotion and fun on skates. Tradition is renewed in the village of Ischia Ponte with the presepistic itinerary and a new suggestion. From the 8th of December eyes focused on the Aragonese Castle for “Suspended windows in the winter nights”, which will give back a different and suggestive image of the ancient manor. And more music, with concerts in the street and for the Churches, theater with many events at the Multifunctional, history, with the exhibition Women and Queens Castle and the re-enactment of Vittoria Colonna’s wedding with the participation of the “Le Franchevillanesi” Association and gastronomy . The chefs take to the streets with the second edition of “Stelle in strada”, but also the village will have its event to be enjoyed with the Street Food Special Edition and Chocolate Fair. Do not miss the appointment with the Living Nativity of Campagnano. «The bill of events – declared the deputy mayor Luigi Di Vaia – was born with the collaboration of all the trade associations, of the traders, who became an active and proactive part. We are happy to continue to increase this relationship; even if at a difficult time they are committed in the first person to give their contribution to the cause. Thanks to a fruitful collaboration with the schools, protagonists of this Christmas, among others, will be the children present on the billboard with several concerts throughout the territory. The events of this Christmas we thought them, moreover, united by a red thread that connects a path that goes from the village of Ischia Ponte to the area of Ischia Porto. On the one hand, the tradition of cribs, a poetic and romantic atmosphere, on the other attractions such as the ice rink and the craft markets. Two poles connected by the luminous installations of the fantastic pinewood that, this year, appear for the first time in Mirtina. A Christmas, that of this year, structured in an organized, functional and intelligent, a Christmas of quality with shows that involve, among others, the excellence of the Italian artistic-cultural world, as, to name a few, the protagonists of the evening of December 31 and the concert of the first of January at the Excelsior “. The events will accompany us to the new year that will end waiting for midnight in Piazza Antica Reggia and will open, as usual, with the New Year’s Concert in memory of the late Maestro Vincenzo Buono. At Epiphany the arrival of the Magi to the Mandra from the sea. “Also this year we were able to offer a Christmas with many small quality events, which represents a significant step forward, especially in terms of tourism. We thank all the associations and the categories for their precious collaboration and we hope, as Administration, a massive popular participation in the scheduled events. In addition to pursuing strategic objectives, useful to solve the structural problems afflicting the territory, we always pay attention to the complex theme of the organization of events that can give prestige to our island ». Thus the Mayor Enzo Ferrandino.
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