THE CONTEST STATION IC8R

EU-031 IIA NA-002 CQ 15 ITU 28
THE LOCATION
Procida, island of the Tirreno sea, is situated in front of the Gulf in Naples, between Ischia (to west) and Capo Miseno (to east). It has 4 square kilometers of surface, and it is smaller than Ischia and Capri, but it almost has 11.000 inhabitants (procidani). To west of Procida and connected to this last medium a bridge, looking toward Ischia, the uninhabited islet of Vivara is risen, completely covered of Mediterranean stain. Procida is of volcanic origin, and he can still recognize in his typical crescent gulfs, the traces of the ancient craters (the sources speak of 5 or 7 craters). It reaches a maximum height of 91 mt and it is therefore rather flat; but the vivacious inhabited areas with the houses policrome, the rich vegetation within which it melts him a typical spontaneous Mediterranean architecture, the clear and shining sea and the beautiful coastal rocks, produces seldom landscape foreshortenings charm, and they does an appreciated tourist destination of it. |