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.

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Its territory includes the town of

Panza Panza ''(sometimes Panza d'Ischia)'' is a small town of 7,000 inhabitants on the island of Ischia, Italy. It is a hamlet (''frazione'') of the municipality of Forio. Name According to archaeological discoveries the place was so named by the fi ...

, the only ''frazione'' of Forio and of the island of Ischia.

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

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 watchtowers, built from the Middle Ages against Saracen and African pirates raids.

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Twin towns

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