Fifteen seconds on Ponza and I’m spellbound. Our hydrofoil from Formia has docked after two hours on a rough sea—almost double its usual crossing time—but it’s my arrival on land that has me weak in ...

If I were even a little superstitious, I might have taken the cancellation of the 8:40 a.m. hydrofoil—a ferry that cuts the two-and-a-half-hour ride from Terracina to Ponza to a 50-minute sprint—as a ...

I concede that deeming an island located only 80 nautical miles from the Amalfi Coast ‘low key’ or ‘relaxed’ may sound far-fetched, but you’ll have to take my word for it. As Ponza, the largest island ...

Arriving by ferry or hydrofoil at Ponza, an Italian island in the Tyrrhenian Sea, passengers enjoy a vista of sheer tuff cliffs bleached white by the sun and eroded by water and wind. Indeed, the best ...

For as long as I’ve known my Italian boyfriend, Fabrizio, he’s been talking about Ponza, the island where real Romans vacation and where he’s been summering with his family since his childhood. In ...

In the Tyrrhenian Sea off the west coast of Italy lies a small island whose name is likely unknown to many. Palmarola, about six miles from the more prominent island of Ponza, is unique in every way.

Like generations of seafarers and exiles, John Irving is waylaid on Ponza, enchanted by its Neapolitan heritage, film-set beauty and reputation as a hideaway for the rich and famous. Ponza is reached ...