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Ponza Island: How to reach us, distances, connections with the island, historycal curiosities, the seasons of Ponza |
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Ponza is the main island on the Pontino Arcipelago.
It is composed by two groups of islands. The islands that forms the
arcipelago are, nord-west Ponza, Palmarola, Zannone e the small island
Gavi, Sud- East: Ventotene and Santo Stefano island, that during the
fascism, in its penitentiary were confined many important people like
Luigi Settembrini, the anarchist Brogi and the italian ex -
President Sandro Pertini (Mussolini was confined in Ponza and
the enemies of the fascism had been imprisoned in Ventotene).
.The penal colony was closed in 1964 but its simple
structure seems to conserve the pain and suffering of those
people who were inprisoned until the end.
In that place the only survivor is the spirit
of death, that is strongly present in every cell, every nook and
cranny and especially in the old cemetery, where you can
still read the epitaph carved in the stone : here the justice of the
man ends and the justice of God begins.
Long time ago , the entire group of islands,
today belonging to the Lazio region, was discovered by the
ancient roman, as well as Ischia and Capri and today their remains,
several aqueducts ruins and artificial basins bored in the sea -
rocks as the testimony of
their passage.
Subsequently, in the XVIII the
century, the Borboni were the promoters of a great colonization. A a great
quantity of persons from the Parthenopean basin moved to the Arcipelago
for improving the fields, that were potentially productive, and for
colonizing them for Carlo II
and his son Ferdinando IV.
For this the reason the language
spoken on the Pontine Islands is similar to the partenopean language.
Today the farming has been nearly abandoned and new jobs are specialized in the building sector, fishing and tourism: the limpid and uncontaminated waters of the Pontine Islands attract a lot of tourists every year. |
distances and connections with the Pontine island |
The connections with Ponza are
guaranteed all year long, but during the summer and the holidays, the
service is upgraded.
Ponza can be reached by ship or
watercraft from Anzio, Circeo, Terracina and Formia.
During the winter the means of
transport leave exclusively Anzio, Terracina and Formia.
From June to September is available a fast ferryboat, that can also transport vehicles. There are a great number of ferryboats that leave Formia and Terracina and they guarantee the daily connections all year long.The hydrofoil, from Anzio and Formia, is also available (all year long ).From Circeo, a fast farryboat takes approximately an hour for connecting San Felice to Ponza, 20 miles away . This
last connection is
available only for people with no car , from June to September.
The distances change according to the place of departure and the means of transport: the ferryboat that leaves Anzio takes 1 hour and 45 minutes, the ferryboat that leaves Formia takes approximately 2 hours and 30 minutes, the hydrofoil takes 1 hour and 15 minutes, the motorship from Circeo takes less than 1 hour . |
| Info about the timetables for Ponza and Ventotene and tickets booking |
| CAREMAR:ferry-hydrofoil- fast ferries Tirrenia infoline 199123199 http://www.caremar.it |
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VETOR : ferry-hydrofoil http://www.vetor.it |
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SNIP E SNAP ferry-hydrofoil http://www.snapnavigazione.it |
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MOTONAVE HIPPONION PRINCESS - navire Circeo |
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| SNAV http://www.snav.it | ||
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| ALILAURO http://www.alilauro.it | ||
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| Info about the air connections with Ponza et Ventotene and tickets booking |
| STARFLY (helicopter) http://www.starfly.biz | ||
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| AQUA AIRLINES (seaplane) http://www.idrovolanti.eu | ||
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For
other informations please
contact the association
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the seasons of Ponza |
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The Pontine Islands, compared to other tourist goals, have not still been discovered from the foreign tourism, and mostly they assist to the invasion of the tourism commonly said of mass, concentrated in the August. |
That
circumstance helps the tourists to visit, during other
periods the year called “low season”, places with a wild
and breathtaking nature. In that period, services are
reduced ( October - April ) but the quality is higher
than the “high season”.
The
temperate climate and the good quality of the services, with a lower
cost, make the Pontine Islands, from September to July,
particularly pleasant .
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Every period of the year is characterizedby natural attractions,they make these islandsan interesting, a cultural - naturalistic and an historical
place.
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From April to May , the broom bloom on the slopes of Ponza and particularly on the MountGuard, coming down, in country, the landscape seems to be a Van Gogh’ painting . |
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In that period the sea can be rough or calm.
Sometimes the rough sea can create some problems to the
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ferryboat, that cannot sail for the inclement weather It happens that who has to leave Ponza is forced to remain on the ferryboat, that cannot |
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sail for the inclement weather island one or two more days but this one can be an occasion to |
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discover a different side of the island charm by having journeys to discover the nature. |
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On March the first migratory birds coming from Africa, stop on the island to rest, while the |
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birds which usually live in the island to
go food hunting for the small pets in the nests
constructed inside safe cavities that drop to the blue sea. |
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At
the beginning of the month of June the first boats and the first
tourists begin to arrive.
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