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{{Infobox Italian comune
| name                = Forio
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| image_skyline       = Veduta di Forio.JPG
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| image_shield        = Forio-Stemma.svg
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| coordinates         = {{coord|40|44|15.6|N|13|51|26.9|E|display=inline}}
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| region              = [[Campania]]
| metropolitan_city   = [[Metropolitan City of Naples|Naples]] (NA)
| frazioni            = [[Panza]]
| mayor_party         =
| mayor               = Francesco Del Deo
| area_footnotes      =
| area_total_km2      = 12.85
| population_footnotes = <ref name="istat">All demographics and other statistics: Italian statistical institute [[National Institute of Statistics (Italy)|Istat]].</ref>
| population_total    = 17749
| population_as_of    = 1 January 2017
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| population_demonym  = Foriani, Panzesi
| elevation_footnotes =
| elevation_m         = 16
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| saint               = Saints [[Saint Vitus|Vitus]] and [[Leonard of Noblac|Leonard]]
| day                 = June 15, November 6
| postal_code         = 80075
| area_code           = 081
| website             = {{Official website|http://www.comune.forio.na.it/}}
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'''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]].

==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).

==See also==
*[[Ischia]]

==Twin towns==
*{{flagicon|ITA}} [[Brusson, Aosta Valley|Brusson]], Italy
*{{flagicon|ITA}} [[Polignano a Mare]], Italy

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*{{commonscat-inline|Forio}}
*{{wikivoyage-inline|Forio}}
*[http://www.comune.forio.na.it/ Official website] {{in lang|it}}

{{Province of Naples}}

{{Authority control}}

[[Category:Cities and towns in Campania]]
[[Category:Ischia]]


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