For the lake see Lacco Ameno

Lacco Ameno

Lacco Ameno is a town and comune situated in the northwest of the island of Ischia, in the Gulf of Naples off the west coast of Italy. The town has a population of around 4,600 inhabitants....

Ameno is a comune

Comune

In Italy, the comune is the basic administrative division, and may be properly approximated in casual speech by the English word township or municipality.-Importance and function:...

(municipality) in the Province of Novara

Province of Novara

Novara is a province in the Piedmont region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Novara.It has an area of 1,339 km², and a total population of 365.156 . There are 88 communes in the province.-External links:*...

 in the Italian

Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

 region of Piedmont

Piedmont

Piedmont is one of the 20 regions of Italy. It has an area of 25,402 square kilometres and a population of about 4.4 million. The capital of Piedmont is Turin. The main local language is Piedmontese. Occitan is also spoken by a minority in the Occitan Valleys situated in the Provinces of...

, located about 100 kilometres northeast of Turin

Turin

Turin is a city and major business and cultural centre in northern Italy, capital of the Piedmont region, located mainly on the left bank of the Po River and surrounded by the Alpine arch. The population of the city proper is 909,193 while the population of the urban area is estimated by Eurostat...

 and about 40 km northwest of Novara

Novara

Novara is the capital city of the province of Novara in the Piedmont region in northwest Italy, to the west of Milan. With c. 105,000 inhabitants, it is the second most populous city in Piedmont after Turin. It is an important crossroads for commercial traffic along the routes from Milan to Turin...

. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 906 and an area of 10.0 km².

Ameno borders the following municipalities: Armeno

Armeno

Armeno is a comune in the Province of Novara in the Italian region of Piedmont, located about 100 km northeast of Turin and about 45 km northwest of Novara...

, Bolzano Novarese

Bolzano Novarese

Bolzano Novarese is a comune in the Province of Novara in the Italian region of Piedmont, located about 100 km northeast of Turin and about 40 km northwest of Novara...

, Colazza

Colazza

Colazza is a comune in the Province of Novara in the Italian region of Piedmont, located about 100 km northeast of Turin and about 40 km north of Novara. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 443 and an area of 3.1 km².Colazza borders the following municipalities: Ameno,...

, Invorio

Invorio

Invorio is a comune in the Province of Novara in the Italian region of Piedmont, located about 100 km northeast of Turin and about 35 km northwest of Novara...

, Miasino

Miasino

Miasino is a comune in the Province of Novara in the Italian region of Piedmont, located about 100 km northeast of Turin and about 40 km northwest of Novara...

, and Orta San Giulio

Orta San Giulio

Orta San Giulio is a town and comune in the Province of Novara in the Italian region of Piedmont, located about 100 km northeast of Turin and about 40 km northwest of Novara....

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Every June there is a Blues

Blues

Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...

festival in Ameno.

The word Ameno in Italian mean healthy place, because the village is on the top of a hill surrounded by mountains, a lake and brushland. Ameno contains numerous ancient homes and castles belonging to noble families from Turin and Milan who vacationed in Ameno in the summer.