Behind the walls built by the Aragonese who made it inexpugnable over the centuries, the Castle contains the synthesis of the history of Ischia from the Middle Ages to 1809, when it was abandoned by the population and transformed into a prison by the Bourbons.
In the heart of the hamlet of Ischia Ponte, already Hamlet of The Sea in the Middle Ages, the rooms of the 18th century Palazzo dell’Orologio tell in all its complexity and diversity the deep bond that in history has linked the people of the island to its sea.
In the rooms of the 18th century Villa Arbusto, on the hill behind the center of Lacco Ameno, the Archaeological Museum of Pithecusae traces back every phase of the ancient history of Ischia, through artifacts found from the fifties of the last century in all the archaeological sites of the island.
Nineteen centuries of legend confirmed by the discovery, among the Posidonia prairie of the Cartaromana bay, of the Roman city of Aenaria, swallowed by the sea in a volcanic event in the 1st century AD.