In 1946, Duke Luigi Silvestro Camerini, a humanist and traveler, arrives in Ischia in search of a place to create a park that expresses a great passion for botany. The charm of the place and the surprising analogy with the bay he admired in Ceylon, made the choice fall on the bay of San Montano, where nature finds one of its most significant expressions in the thermal springs, testimony of the volcanic history of the island of 'Ischia and in the possibility of their use according to a tradition that has its roots in the classical age.