Aragonese Castle

The Aragonese Castle stands on a rocky islet connected to the trachytic rock to the eastern side of the island of Ischia by a stone bridge 220 meters long.

The bedrock is geologically called “dome of stagnation” and is equivalent to a bubble of magma which consolidated during the eruptive phenomena of wider interest.

It reaches a height of 113 meters above the sea level and has an area of about 56,000 square meters.

It can be reached by mule track or by a modern elevator installed in the late ’70s.

The trail is developed, for the first leg, in a tunnel excavated in the rock and then go outside until you reach the highest point is located where is the Maschio Angioino.

From this main road serving other smaller ones up to buildings and gardens of the castle. The elevator reaches instead the 60 mt above the sea level and its course is entirely built inside the rock.

Indisputable dominant image of the castle are the silhouettes of a royal residence, named Maschio, and placed on the highest point of the north east, and the dome of the Church of the Immaculate, a counterpoint to all the central island