In the cove sheltered by the bridge, sommersed because of the bradyseism, there are the remains of ancient settlement by the Romans, who called the island Aenaria, from Latin aenum, which means bronze, with reference to the metallurgical activities introduced by the Greeks.

Despite of the plenty of thermal waters, the island of Ischia was not interested by the construction of Roman maritime villas, so numerous in the rest of Gulf of Naples, because in the classic age there were many earthquakes and eruptions which made Ischia a place not safe and caused also the decline of the Greek colony. To that reason it seems also it had to be referred the choice of the emperor Augustus, who transfered the property of Ischia to the city of Naples in exchange for the smaller and poorer island of Capri, transformed into personal residence for himself and his heir Tiberius.

Going on southwards, in the same bay we find the Scogli di Santa'Anna (St.Anna's Rocks) so called because on the coast nearby there is the Church of Sant'Anna, much loved and venerated as protectress of parturients. For her festivity in July the sailors and the fishermen once formed a procession of boats decorated and lightened, coming from the village and going to the rocks, where they went ashore with all the necessaries for the banquet with barbecue fish and white wine of the island.

Over the St.Anna's Rocks it looks also the Torre del Guevara (Guevara's Tower), a fortified residence by a Spanish noble family, also called Michelangelo's Tower, because by tradition here lived the sculptor Michelangelo Buonarroti during his stay on Ischia. Beyond the rocks there is the beautiful beach of Cartaromana.