Editing Forio (section)

==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.

There are numerous coastal [[watchtower]]s, built from the Middle Ages against [[Saracen]] and African pirates raids.

In the 20th century, Ischia inspired at least two well-known English language poets.  Ischia was the site where W.H. Auden composed one of his most famous poems, In Praise of Limestone.  And the American Poet, Theodore Roethke, dedicated his poem The Storm, to "Forio d'Ischia" as printed in Selected Poems of Theodore Rothke (Library of America, Edwin Hirsch, Ed., 2005, p.113).