Botanical garden with Lodge Accommodation; Villa Ravino
Unusual Place to stay, villa set in a Botanical Garden on a Mediterranean Island called Ischia, by the Amalfi coast with Positano, Ravello and Capri Isalnd. Thermal Pools, Sauna, beauty corner, sea view, for an individual Holiday in a family atmosphere. The garden, along with the mature areas around Villa Ravino, is the result of 45 years of great passion and loving work of Signor Peppino, the owner of the Villa. The exotic trees include palms, olive, lemon and orange.
Ischia " the Green Island".
The Giardini Ravino winners of the prize awarded by " the European Parliament and Council of Europe obesrvatory".
On the 6th of August, in Forio, the prize giving ceremony. This year, the OPE prize, awarded by the transport and tourism committee, to the Giardini Ravino, situated in Forio, on Ischia Island ,for being the most distinguished business in southern Italy, in the area of tourism for environmental enhancement.
The Giardini Ravino are, as a matter of fact, a tropical, Mediterranean botanical garden, situated on the western slopes of the island, which has one of the most vast collections of succulents , commonly known as cacti, in all of Europe. A heritage of over 5000 specimens, with more than 400 different species, some of which are over a hundred-years-old and others extremely rare, including approx. 200 cycads, palms and musacee.
The collection is the result of a gathering of specimens done by the Marine Captain Giuseppe D'Ambra over more than 50 years during his travels in South America. This enabled him to put together an immense botanical heritage which is perfectly acclimatized amongst the xerofite plants of the Mediterranean flora and which creates a colorful and fragrant background for the sculptural shapes of the cacti.
Unusual Place to stay, villa set in a Botanical Garden on a Mediterranean Island called Ischia, by the Amalfi coast with Positano, Ravello and Capri Isalnd. Thermal Pools, Sauna, beauty corner, sea view, for an individual Holiday in a family atmosphere. The garden, along with the mature areas around Villa Ravino, is the result of 45 years of great passion and loving work of Signor Peppino, the owner of the Villa. The exotic trees include palms, olive, lemon and orange.
The Giardini Ravino winners of the prize awarded by " the European Parliament and Council of Europe obesrvatory".
On the 6th of August, in Forio, the prize giving ceremony. This year, the OPE prize, awarded by the transport and tourism committee, to the Giardini Ravino, situated in Forio, on Ischia Island ,for being the most distinguished business in southern Italy, in the area of tourism for environmental enhancement.
The Giardini Ravino are, as a matter of fact, a tropical, Mediterranean botanical garden, situated on the western slopes of the island, which has one of the most vast collections of succulents , commonly known as cacti, in all of Europe. A heritage of over 5000 specimens, with more than 400 different species, some of which are over a hundred-years-old and others extremely rare, including approx. 200 cycads, palms and musacee.
The collection is the result of a gathering of specimens done by the Marine Captain Giuseppe D'Ambra over more than 50 years during his travels in South America. This enabled him to put together an immense botanical heritage which is perfectly acclimatized amongst the xerofite plants of the Mediterranean flora and which creates a colorful and fragrant background for the sculptural shapes of the cacti.
