Forio
Sign in to saveForio (known also as Forio of Ischia) is a town and comune of c. 17,000 inhabitants in the Metropolitan City of Naples, southern Italy, situated on the island of Ischia.
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Forio is a town of about 17,000 people located on the island of Ischia in the Naples area of southern Italy. It matters as a populated municipality in one of Italy's well-known Mediterranean island destinations.
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Key facts
- Italian comune.name
- Forio
- Italian comune.image_skyline
- Veduta di Forio.JPG
- Italian comune.image_shield
- Forio-Stemma.svg
- Italian comune.region
- Campania
- Italian comune.metropolitan_city
- Naples (NA)
- Italian comune.frazioni
- Panza
- Italian comune.mayor
- Francesco Del Deo
- Italian comune.area_total_km2
- 12.85
- Italian comune.population_total
- 17749
- Italian comune.population_as_of
- 1 January 2017
- Italian comune.population_demonym
- Foriani, Panzesi
- Italian comune.elevation_m
- 16
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Forio (known also as Forio of Ischia) is a town and comune of c. 17,000 inhabitants in the Metropolitan City of Naples, southern Italy, situated on the island of Ischia.
==Overview== Its territory includes the town of Panza, the only frazione of Forio and of the island of Ischia. Panza has always been an independent village since the 16th century when a first governmental organization was introduced on the island. In the 1975 the inhabitants of Panza tried to become an independent comune but the referendum, claimed by the inhabitants of Forio, was denied by the Campania's Regional Government.