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The Costa dei Trabocchi

“… stretched out on the rocks, like a monster in ambush, with its hundred limbs…”

This is how the poet Gabriele D’Annunzio described the trabocchi, observing one of them from his hermitage overlooking the sea in San Vito Chietino, where he spent an inspired summer stay.

These complex wooden structures, reminiscent of pile dwellings, enabled the local farmers, who were not very accustomed to the use of boats, to reach out into the sea to fish with nets, withstanding the weather for centuries.

Having abandoned their original function, some of the trabocchi have been transformed into charming seafood restaurants, while all the others simply enhance the beauty of the Costa dei Trabocchi, the stretch of Abruzzo coastline stretching from Ortona to Vasto, at the centre of which our Camping is located.

This part of This rocky and rugged part of the Adriatic coastline is particularly appealing for its diversity. It alternates between sandy beaches (such as Punta Penne is Casalbordino Lido ) ans pebbly ones (such as Fossacesia Marina is Ripari di Giobbe ), Not to forget the many charming coves and inlets (above all the two nature reserves of Punta Aderci to Vast is Punta di Acquabella to Ortona ).

Thanks to the recent completion of the Via Verde dei Trabocchi, a cycle/pedestrian path with afull view of the sea that allows you to explore the entire coastline comfortably on two wheels. it is also an ideal destination for cycling tourism

If you start from our campsite by bike, you can quickly access the most beautiful beaches in the area. Perhaps stop in one of the many restaurants overlooking the seato try the local food and wine, a perfect synthesis between the fish and the local products that come to life in the hills separating the Majella mountains from the Adriatic (like theEVO oil as well as the Montepulciano and Trebbiano d’Abruzzo DOC vineyards).
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ABBAZIA SAN GIOVANNI IN VENERE

The abbey of San Giovanni in Venere is located in the municipality of Fossacesia, on a hill overlooking the Adriatic Sea. The monastic complex of San Giovanni in Venere consists of a basilica and the nearby monastery, both built at the beginning of the 13th century in place of the small pre-existing monastery.
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OASIS OF SERRANELLA

This protected area extends over an area of about 300 hectares, between Casoli, Altino, and Sant’Eusanio del Sangro, all belonging to the province of Chieti, at the confluence of the Sangro and Aventino rivers.
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THE CASTLE OF ROCCASCALEGNA

The Castle of Roccascalegna is a defensive structure in the municipality of Roccascalegna, in the province of Chieti. Built on the top of a rocky outcrop, in a dominant position over the town, it has a very ancient foundation and underwent numerous additions between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
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VASTO

Legend has it that the city was named Histon da Diomede and that it was originally inhabited by tribes from Dalmatia. Certainly, the Frentans settled in the area currently belonging to the municipality of Vasto (Punta Penna) in an unspecified age, who came into close contact with the Samnites and the Greek colonies of southern Italy and Sicily (including Syracuse).
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LECCETA RESERVE

The reserve extends over 175 hectares, in the municipality of Torino di Sangro, south of the mouth of the river Sangro, close to the coast of the trabocchi, the symbol of this reserve is the Hermann Tortoise, although the reasons why it became a protected area, and environmentally important since 1971, are due to the mixed Mediterranean vegetation in which the holm oak is the most representative species.
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MAIELLA NATIONAL PARK

This is one of 24 Italian national parks with the peculiarity of being a relatively compact area. In fact, its area is surrounds the large limestone massif of the Majella and the mountains of Morrone to the west and the Pizi and Porrara mountains to the east. The highest mountain in the park is Mount Amaro (2,793 metres).