Forio

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.

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Forio is a town of about 17,000 people located on the island of Ischia in the Naples area of southern Italy. It matters as a populated municipality in one of Italy's well-known Mediterranean island destinations.

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Italian comune.name: Forio
Italian comune.image_skyline: Veduta di Forio.JPG
Italian comune.image_shield: Forio-Stemma.svg
Italian comune.region: Campania
Italian comune.metropolitan_city: Naples (NA)
Italian comune.frazioni: Panza
Italian comune.mayor: Francesco Del Deo
Italian comune.area_total_km2: 12.85
Italian comune.population_total: 17749
Italian comune.population_as_of: 1 January 2017
Italian comune.population_demonym: Foriani, Panzesi
Italian comune.elevation_m: 16
Italian comune.saint: Saints Vitus and Leonard
Italian comune.day: June 15, November 6
Italian comune.postal_code: 80075
Italian comune.area_code: 081

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Wikidata facts

Official name: Forio
Population: 17437
Area: 13.08
Elevation: 16
Official website: www.comune.forio.na.it
Image: Veduta di Forio.JPG
Dialing code: 081
Licence plate code: NA

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postal code: 80075

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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.