Marina della Corricella

At the foot of Terra Murata, Corricella folds around its harbour in a stepped arrangement facing the sea. Procida's oldest fishing quarter has a seventeenth-century waterfront of arches, domes and loggias, and has appeared in films including Il Postino and The Talented Mr Ripley.

Why it matters

Corricella is Procida's oldest maritime borgo. Its seafaring history is reflected in the harbour and in the houses rising in tiers above the water. The waterfront square is named for Massimo Troisi, and the harbour became an internationally recognised film location through Il Postino.

What to notice

The seventeenth-century porticciolo is characterised by arches, small domes, loggias, external staircases and brightly painted facades. The domes belong to vaulted boat shelters and houses that rise directly from the quay. The amphitheatre-like quarter includes the church of the Congrega dei Turchini above the water and the piazzetta dedicated to Massimo Troisi.

Context and history

Corricella grew because the harbour made it possible. From the seventeenth century the little port sheltered the island's fishing fleet, and the borgo of popular architecture arranged itself around the water in the dense, stepped form that made it famous. The portal notes that directors have returned repeatedly to use the quarter as a natural set, with Il Postino the most celebrated of those films.

The film record can be documented precisely. Italy for Movies, the national film-tourism portal, records that the fictional village of Mongibello in The Talented Mr Ripley (1999) was assembled from locations on Ischia and Procida, with the village centre shot in the Corricella fishing quarter, including Via San Rocco as Dickie rides his Vespa. For Il Postino (1994), the film-location archive places the seafront bar where Mario courts Beatrice on the marina, recreated in the studio only for its interior, and follows the village street of Via San Rocco up towards Santa Maria delle Grazie and the Terra Murata citadel. The beach on the island's other side, Pozzo Vecchio, completed the Procida locations of that production.