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lovers can enjoy sprawling Giardini Poseidon. There is a wide choice of treatments and
facilities available, including massages, saunas, Jacuzzis, various health treatments and
terraced pools spilling down the volcanic cliffside. If it's all too stressful, settle for the
dazzling private beach below.
SANT'ANGELO & THE SOUTH COAST
Tiny Sant'Angelo attracts a voguish crowd with its chic boutiques, seafront restaurants
and great beaches. Quiet lanes spill down the hill to fashionable Piazetta Ottorino Troia,
where tanned Italians sip Campari soda and take in late-night summer music concerts.
Keeping an eye on it all is the great hulking
scoglio
(rock), joined to the village by a sand-
bar sprinkled with fishing boats, beach umbrellas and
bagnini
(lifeguards).
Catch a brightly painted water taxi from the pier to the sandy
Spiaggia dei Maronti
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(one way €7), with its steamy thermal spring. Sorgeto can also be reached on
foot down an albeit poorly signposted path from the village of Panza.
Terme Cavascuro
( 081 99 92 42;
www.cavascura.it
; Via Cavascura 1, Spiaggia dei Maronti,
Sant'Angelo; basic thermal bath €12, mud & thermal bath €27; 8.30am-1.30pm &
2.30-6pm mid-Apr-mid-Oct)
Experience an earthy natural spa by catching a water taxi to
Cavascura (one way €3.50) and follow the signs 300m down a rocky gorge to Terme
Cavascuro. Wedged between soaring cliffs, this historic no-frills outdoor spa is Ischia's
oldest. Soak in old Roman baths hewn into the cliff or sweat it out in a grotto.
For an extra fee top it all off with a mud mask and face massage (€24), manicure (€15)
or anti-stress massage (€30). The sulphurous waters are reputedly beneficial for rheumat-
ic, bronchial and skin conditions.
SPA
SPA
Parco Termale Aphrodite Apollon
( 081 99 92 19;
www.aphrodite.it
; Via Petrelle, Sant'Angelo; admission €40;
8am-6pm mid-Apr-Oct)
A spectacular, if partly strenuous 2km walk above the coast from
Sant'Angelo brings you to this luxurious spa, which is now part of the Miramare Sea Re-
sort. Beyond its ivy-draped entrance is a marble-clad complex of gyms, saunas, lush ter-
raced gardens and 12 differently heated pools, including one for hydro-cycling. The spa
offers an extensive range of beauty treatments and therapies.
