Vast - Vasto

Vast is a city ofAbruzzo.

To know

Geographical notes

It is the last city in Abruzzo on the southern Adriatic coast in the Coast of the trabocchi, on the border with Molise. It is 30 km from Termoli, 48 from Ortona, 43 from They launch, 76 from Chieti.

Background

The name perhaps derives from the Lombard term gassed or failure (Gastaldato), subdivision of the territory during the Lombard domination (which began in the last quarter of the 6th century).

A legend has it that the city was named Histon from Diomede and that it was originally inhabited by tribes from Dalmatia. Certainly in the territory currently belonging to the municipality of Vasto (Punta Penna) the Frentani settled at an unspecified age, who came into close contact with the Samnites and with the Greek colonies of southern Italy and Sicily (including Syracuse). The Frentanis definitively entered the Roman orbit with the status of foederati (i.e. of allies), between the end of the 4th and the beginning of the 3rd century BC. After the social war the inhabited center that had been forming a few kilometers south of Punta Penna became a Roman municipality, and Histon was Latinized in Histonium.

After the collapse of the Western Roman Empire the city declined, passing into power first of the Ostrogoths, then of the Byzantines and finally of the Lombards. Joined the Duchy of Benevento, was conquered and destroyed in 802 by the Franks. Returned in the following years to the Dukes of Benevento, it was rebuilt as a fortified center on the ruins of the pre-existing town. Between the thirteenth and nineteenth centuries it was part, together with its region of belonging, of the Kingdom of Naples that after the union to the Kingdom of Sicily it was called the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.

In the Angevin age it was given to the Caldora family, passing immediately after the advent of an Aragonese dynasty to the d'Avalos (end of the 15th century) who built the palace of the same name, later destroyed by the Turks (16th century). In 1710 it was officially conferred the title of city. Until the annexation to the Kingdom of Italy (1861) it was part of the Abruzzo region. In 1938 at the behest of Mussolini it was officially renamed Istonio, in homage to the Latin toponym in use in Roman times, to return to Vasto in 1944, after the liberation of the city. In 1940-1943 a concentration camp for anti-fascists and Slavs functioned on the Vasto coast (Istonio Marina).

After the Second World War, between February and June 1956, Vasto was devastated by a series of landslides and landslides caused by the large amount of precipitation, including snow, which had occurred in those months. A part of one of the oldest districts of the historic center sank downstream, towards the sea. Some public and religious buildings of considerable architectural value were destroyed, including the medieval church of San Pietro, as well as about one hundred and fifty private lodgings. However, the immediate evacuation of the resident population from the affected area, immediately after the first landslide on February 22, 1956, avoided civilian casualties.

How to orient yourself

Neighborhoods

In addition to the city, its municipal territory also includes the villages of Difenza, Incoronata, Lebba, Montevecchio, Pagliarelli, Piana di Marco, Pozzitello, Punta Penna, San Biagio, Codalfa, San Lorenzo, San Nicola, Sant'Antonio Abate, San Tommaso, Vasto Marina, Vignola, Casarza, Villa De Nardis and Zimarino.

How to get

By plane

• Pescara airport (Abruzzo Airport), Via Tiburtina Km 229.100, ☎ 39 085 432 4201. The airport acts as a regional airport. 

By car

• A14 Adriatica motorway with Vasto north and Vasto south toll booths.
• Adriatic coast

On boat

• From the port of Vasto a passenger shipping line leads to Tremiti Islands.

On the train

• Vasto has a railway station on the Adriatic ridge which it shares with San Salvo. Urban buses leave from the station both for the center of Vasto and for the center of San Salvo.

By bus

• Bus lines managed by ARPA - Abruzzesi regional public bus lines [1]

How to get around

What see

• 42.111914.70971 Cathedral of San Giuseppe. It is the co-cathedral of the archdiocese of Chieti-Vasto since 1986. Of the ancient medieval church dedicated to Santa Margherita, only the facade with the fourteenth-century portal and rose window remains. In the 17th century it was dedicated to Sant'Agostino and in 1808 to San Giuseppe. It was elevated to the status of a cathedral in 1853.

The first plant dates back to the 13th century. According to the layout of the churches of the mendicant orders of the XIII-XIV century, the church had a single nave with a trussed ceiling and a vaulted apse. It was enlarged in the 19th and 20th centuries. Of the original church only a single lancet window remains with ashlars on the north side and from the few other vague elements it can be assumed that the crowning was horizontal. In 1895 there were renovations.

The rose window, the string courses and the portal are in stone. The portal, as well as the pillars and the architrave, consist of bare material from the Roman era. The bell tower was rebuilt in the eighteenth century, however the base with a pointed arch remains from the Middle Ages, as well as signs in the string courses and in the scarp walls. The single-nave interior with transept is painted in neo-medieval style in two colors with fake stone ashlars painted by Achille Carnevale in 1923.

The facade dates back to the 13th century and is the original part of the old church. The Gothic portal has splayings and a round arch with a lunette without a painting. On the left there is a plaque which reads in Latin the short story of the foundation of the medieval church of Santa Margherita. The portal until 1905 had a coat of arms of the D'Avalos on the lunette, which was later stolen.

The upper rose window was restored in the twentieth century because it was destroyed by the Turks and the weather over the centuries. In an 1898 engraving it was shown completely laundered. Today it has the original style with floral crowns and indentations on the perimeter frame.

With the Baroque reconstruction the facade ended as a rectangle, having been added fortification elements at the damaged end. Today, however, the façade appears incomplete at the top, ending in a hut, showing the preparatory layer in masonry.

The bell tower is a tower with a stone plant and the rest in masonry. It was built in the Middle Ages, judging from the pointed arch, but then destroyed and reassembled. The part of the tower with the belfry is the most interesting: once hollow portholes are placed on each side, while each corner and side has pillars in the shape of columns with small capitals. Climb to the ledge that surrounds the top. On the side of the facade there is a clock. The top has a railing and had to end with a spire. Probably the work was not completed, seeing only the base of this pinnacle, or it was destroyed by lightning. From the eighteenth century it is certain that the cusp had been replaced with a bell cell to ring the hours, worked in wrought iron.

The plan of the cathedral is a basilica, although it has been rebuilt. The shapes of the transept and the small chapel on the left are from the neo-Gothic school. The windows are tall and slender, small indentations are under the cornice of the roof, in every angle and side of the cathedral; the chapel has two single lancet windows and a cross above them.

The original interior was Baroque. Although it has a single nave, it was reworked in a neo-Gothic way in 1853.: The roof is geometric and flat (only the vault of the transept is cross-shaped), the supporting columns are streaked with green, with Corinthian capitals. From the capitals they rise forming arches: in all there are three on each side. Under these other small arches with chapels show scenes from the New Testament. The altar is raised and reached by stairs; the organ that towers behind it is of modern features. It is illuminated by the rose window on the facade.  

• 42.110814.70862 Church of Santa Maria Maggiore. The first document of its existence dates back to 1195 and consists of the diploma issued by the emperor and king of Sicily Henry VI to Odorisio, Benedictine abbot of San Giovanni in Venere, confirming his possession of «omnia castella et obedientias». From the document it is also possible to clearly understand the hierarchy of the two main ecclesiastical institutions of Vasto at that time, namely the church of Santa Maria and the church of San Pietro, authors of several clashes over time. : In the aforementioned document, in fact, the first is defined ecclesia in servitio of the Venerese monastery, the second is called obedientia in the state property of the abbey itself, or a monastic dependency, falling within its properties.

The exterior of the church has a Latin cross plan, with an eighteenth-century masonry roof. The huge body of the church has no apse, but only a window, surmounted by a large but very flattened dome with geometric shapes. The facade is visible from the street that runs from Piazza Duomo, and is very tiny, flanked by the huge bell tower. It has the forms of a late Baroque eighteenth-century temple, with the architrave not "gabled", but with the rounded shapes of a semicircle. The portal is decorated on the sides with ashlar.

The bell tower is an imposing tower, the tallest in the city, visible even from miles away. The tower has a quadrangular plan, and rests on a medieval-style base, decorated with walled pointed arches. After a string course, the side of the bell tower that turns towards the street is decorated with two round arches with green windows. So are also the opposite side and that of the side, minus the side that is attached to the body of the church. The rest of the tower is of Baroque origin but very simple, and ends with the belfry. The top of the roof is square, devoid of decorative elements.

The interior has three naves with a crypt. The decorations have been transformed according to the Baroque canon, and so also the columns that separate the aisles are plastered in white, with fluid and delicate shapes. The vaults of the ceiling are frescoed. The entrance from the portal is decorated with columns that support the floor above which the choir sings. The transept is marked by a circle of wall carved with floral and anthropomorphic figures, of medieval origin. The medieval crypt is preceded by a double row of stairs, which start from both ends of the entrance, and go up in a circular manner to the upper floor, where the altar is.

On the side of the church, which is accessible from the Corso, anthropomorphic figures in bas-relief engraved in medieval times can be seen. They are in white stone, and in particular one depicts a farmer. Other figures show crosses.  

• 42.11286514.7089933 Church of Maria Santissima del Carmine. The church is attested in 1362 with the name of San Nicola degli Schiavoni when it was officiated by the Confraternity of the same name, which arose among the numerous Croatian colony residing here. In 1522 the Slavic families were 50, later they reduced in number, until they were completely absorbed.

In 1638 the old church was demolished and a new one dedicated to Maria Santissima del Carmine was built in which, in a minor altar, St. Nicholas continued to be venerated; the brotherhood also took on the new name. Diego d'Avalos called the "regular clerics of the Mother of God", or "Lucchesi fathers" who came from Naples to found a convent with an adjoining college. : The marquis, the university and the brotherhood contributed to the work, granting the church and an income. Convent and college were then abandoned in 1807 following the suppression of religious orders decreed by Giuseppe Bonaparte.

Between 1758 and 1761 the church was rebuilt to a design by Mario Gioffredo; the works also involved the adjoining college. In 1762 the interior of the building was decorated with stuccos by Michele Saccione of Naples. The new neoclassical church, with Vanvitellian influences, has a Greek cross plan with five chapels.

The painting by Crescenzo La Gamba with Presentation of the Child Mary to the Eternal Father and on the side altars on the right Benedict in the cave by Nicola Tiberi and on the left the Madonna del Carmine with Saint Nicholas and Saint Andrew by Giulio de Litiis. In the minor chapels are respectively housed theEcstasy of Saint Teresa of Avila and the Crucifix with saints, by the Neapolitan Fedele Fischetti.

Next to the façade there is a baroque bell tower with a trapezoidal section. The facade is late Baroque, marked by ribs and buttresses in travertine, with a large window in the center with a classical arch. The rest of the exterior has been left the way it was in the previous old church in a rough and simple style. A small dome surmounts the transept.

In the church, subsidiary to the parish of the Co-Cathedral of San Giuseppe, in 2009 by decree of the Metropolitan Archbishop of Chieti-Vasto has been reconstituted the ancient Confraternity of Maria Santissima del Carmine, which contributes to the management of the cult in the homonymous church.  

• Church of San Michele Arcangelo. In 1656, following the earthquakes and the plague, the Vastesi solemnly walled up a stone from the sanctuary of San Michele Arcangelo which, according to a vision, would have protected them from those scourges on the door of Santa Maia. About 300 m outside the walls, on a land donated by Francesco Cresci, with a view of the Gargano promontory, on 19 March 1657 the construction of the church was begun, which was completed in 1675, as stated above the a Latin inscription dictated by Giovanni Palma. San Michele Arcangelo was acclaimed patron of the city, with pontifical confirmation obtained in 1827. The church retains the high altar in wood, with pure gold gilding, the work of a Venetian artist.  
• Church of Sant'Antonio, Via Adriatica. The construction is prior to 1334. The convent suffered the loss of the structures used as the dwelling of the monks and of various rooms pertinent to them, including: the dormitory, the refectory, the kitchens, the cellars, the warehouses and the cloister. Inside it underwent the elimination of the altar table in the seventies of the twentieth century. The convent would have been founded at the time of St. Francis if not by the saint himself. The Franciscan friars would have settled in the early Christian church called Santa Croce dating back to the 5th-6th century of which some vestiges of the walls of the cellar remain.

In 1566 the archives of the convent were burned during the Turkish raids, probably also part of the convent was damaged. : In the first half of the 18th century some modernizations were made inside. Following the suppression in 1809 of the monastic orders possessing land, the convent was used for public use until 1956. The interior of the church has recently been repainted. : Inside there is a polychrome wooden crucifix attributed to Giacomo Colombo. 

• Facade of the church of San Pietro, Via Adriatica. It is already documented in 809 together with other buildings annexed to the monastery. In the 11th century it was a fief of the abbey of San Giovanni in Venere as emerges from a document of 1047. In 1195 it was part of the state property. From the ruins of the cloister a bearded protome has re-emerged today located in the archaeological civic museum. The monastery ceased its functions in 1410 when it was transformed into a church. Later, in 1960, the church was demolished due to a landslide that occurred four years earlier. The façade with an adjoining late thirteenth-century portal remains of the church, in whose lunette there are depictions of the Madonna and Child and the Crucifixion. On the sides of the portal there are the remains of opus reticolatum. 
• Remains of the church of Santa Croce, Via Roma. They are located under the steps of the Arena delle Grazie. The western area of ​​the church re-emerged in the mid-1970s when mosaic fragments were found. The church was located on the outskirts of the ancient city at an intersection of two orthogonal streets near the baths and, perhaps, a macellum. The style of the walls is similar to the contemporary northern Apulian churches. The interior had a single nave with an apse. 
• Former convent of Sant'Onofrio, via Sant'Onofrio. It dates back to 1440. Restoration of the residential areas of the convent area led to the loss of some friezes, including the plaster, paintings, wall decorations, floors and fixtures. A pictorial cycle has been recovered from the altars of the naves, perhaps depicting episodes from the life of Sant'Onofrio. The convent consisted of a cloister while the church has a main nave and a small aisle. The church has small dimensions and in the first centuries it may have had a vault only in the apse area, while the nave had a trussed ceiling. 
• Monumental complex of Santa Lucia, Via di Santa Lucia. A monastery dedicated to Santa Maria in Valle located in the Fosso dell'Angrella perhaps corresponded to the church of the same name which was a possession of the abbey of Santa Maria di Farfa. However, the first news dates back to 1276 when, following a dispute between the abbot of Santa Maria di Casanova and Andrea de Sully, the church was sacked. From the 15th century it was called grangia di Santa Lucia or monastery or abbey of Santa Maria in Valle.

It was equipped with a church, rooms and a well. In 1566 it was rebuilt after a fire caused by the Turks. It was later run by a prior until the 18th century. Involved by some landslides, already in 1794 the monastery no longer existed but the urban and rural collections were collected until the twentieth century. The remains of the settlement are currently visible. The church of Santa Lucia annexed to the rural palace of the d'Avalos of the eighteenth century is communicating with the remains of the Benedictine building through the fields near via di Santa Lucia. The monastery of Santa Lucia is in deterioration. 

• 42.1115314.710514 D'Avalos Palace. The palace was built by Giacomo Caldora, as evidenced by a document dated 1427; it was then owned by the d'Avalos, who never used it as a residence.

During the Turkish invasion it was put to fire and sword by Piyale Pasha due to the absence of the owners.

The Palace consists of a courtyard and a garden (recently restored) and is spread over two levels with neoclassical features on the windows. Little or nothing remains of its original appearance, as well as of the ancient theater inside.

It is currently the seat of the archaeological museum, the costume museum and the art gallery. The archaeological section houses female statues, heads of Aphrodite, Eros, Zeus and Silenus, as well as a series of bronze statuettes, all depicting the figure of Heracles. The Pinacoteca contains a sector dedicated to contemporary painting and in particular to that of the 19th century, where you can admire works by Filippo Palizzi, Valerio Laccetti, Francesco Paolo Michetti, all artists from Abruzzo and Giulio Aristide Sartorio 

• Caldoresco Castle. The castle is located on a promontory overlooking the coast. It consists of bastions at the corners. The original part dates back to the 14th-15th century with transformations carried out in 1439 by Giacomo Caldora perhaps in the external part. In the 15th century the previous palace was transformed into a castle by the d'Avalos. Other transformations were made by Cesare Michelangelo d'Avalos in the 18th century. 
• Remains of the Sinello Tower. 
• Aragon Castle, via San Michele. It was originally called Villa Ruzzi. It is currently home to a prestigious restaurant 
• Miramare Castle. It is a red quadrangular tower that stands near the municipal villa in the center with a view of the sea and the gulf 

At Punta Penna

• 42.171414.71465 Punta Penna lighthouse, via Madonna della Penna. With its 70 meters high, it is the second highest lighthouse in Italy after the Lanterna di Genoa. The signaling is located on a promontory near the port of Vasto. This location was chosen because it was important from a strategic point of view: in the opinion of the technicians, the site was a real natural harbor, the most important among Ancona is Bari.

Built in 1906, it has been refurbished several times. In fact, the structure visible today is not the original one from 1906, but a reconstruction since in 1944 the retreating German army partially destroyed the old lighthouse. The demolition was completed two years later and on May 2, 1948 it was inaugurated again.

Built on a design by Olindo Tarcione, the lighthouse looks like a masonry construction in the shape of a tower; at the base there is a two-storey building which houses the apartments for the families of the two managers who permanently look after the lighthouse, which is still manned today, and some administrative offices.

A spiral staircase of 307 steps leads to the top.

The promontory on which the lighthouse was built boasts one of the most beautiful views overlooking the sea, where you can admire the view from Ortona to the Gargano. It is located about 7 km north of Vasto and is adjacent to the Punta Aderci Nature Reserve. : At this promontory there is a beach with an overflow, which flows into that of Punta Aderci. The beach of Punta Penna also comes into contact with the port of Vasto. 

• 42.17068214.715036 Church of Santa Maria di Pennaluce. Next to the lighthouse there is a small church with a portico, dedicated to Santa Maria di Pennaluce, built in the fifteenth century and rebuilt in Romanesque form in 1887. The church has all the forms of a Greek Catholic building. It has a Greek cross plan, and has two transepts that converge in a single body, with the arms that expand outwards, decorated with small rose windows. Above the transept there is a dome. The bell tower is tiny and sail.

The façade is longer than the other branches, and is decorated by a portico that surrounds it both on the front and on the sides. It too is decorated with a rose window. 

• 42.17341414.7148737 Tower of Punta Penna (at Punta Penna). Next to the lighthouse there is a sixteenth-century watchtower, used by the people of Vasto to defend themselves from Saracen raids. The tower is in perfect condition. 

Legends

The lighthouse and the Church of Santa Maria di Pennaluce have given rise in the past to numerous legends that surround them with charm and mystery. It is said that the statue of the Madonna della Penna, after being stolen by Turkish pirates, was found in the same place where it was stolen, while the pirate ship sank.

On the second Sunday of May a feast is celebrated in the small church adjacent to the lighthouse, in which a long procession of fishing boats and boats takes place.

The lighthouse was chosen by director Riccardo Milani in 2003 as the setting for the film The place of the soul, with Michele Placido and Silvio Orlando.

Events and parties

• Feast of the Holy Thorn. Friday before Holy Week. 
• Good Friday. procession of the Dead Christ 
• Watermelon Festival. in July. 
• White Night. in July. 
• Vasto Siren Festival. in July. 
• Feast of San Lorenzo. August 10. 
• Feast of Santa Maria Stella Maris. with a procession of boats 
• Feast of San Rocco. August 16. 
• Music On The Beach. August 16. 
• Golden Fleece. fourth week of August. 
• Return party. August. with sagne and beans 
• 42.1023914.718411 Pink night. 8 August. 
• Feast of St. Michael the Archangel. September 29. 

What to do

Shopping

How to have fun

Where to eat

Moderate prices

• 42.1108214.7101971 ^{[link not working]}Twenty-nine restaurant, Amblingh Lodge, 49, ☎ 39 0873 380529. 
• 42.11132414.7099282 Pizzeria la Tana, Lucio Valerio Pudente Square 18, ☎ 39 0873 362722. 
• 42.11231614.7099883 La Votta Piene Osteria, Via Barbarotta, 12, ☎ 39 0873 365752. 
• 42.11210714.7086294 ^{[link not working]}Trattoria Zi 'Albina, Via Luigi Marchesani, 15, ☎ 39 0873 367429. 
• 42.11243914.7101225 Hostaria Del Pavone, Via Barbarotta, 15/17, ☎ 39 0873 60227. 
• 42.11271314.710026 Trattoria Da Peppe, Via Valerico Laccetti, 16, ☎ 39 0873 362169. 
• 42.11298314.7091787 Trattoria La Lanterna, Largo Del Carmine 6, ☎ 39 0873 367080. 
• 42.11211214.707718 ^{[link not working]}The Transhumance, Corso Giuseppe Garibaldi, 31, ☎ 39 0873 368146. 
• 42.11349914.7116669 Il Corallo Restaurant, Via Adriatica, 31, ☎ 39 346 5240645. 
• 42.11355314.71139710 Tabbouleh, Corso Dante Alighieri, 101, ☎ 39 331 8490945. Vegetarian restaurant 
• 42.11217114.70931111 Pizzeria Bebbia, Via Bebbia 16, ☎ 39 339 7252820. 
• 42.10948614.70871812 The Cisterns, Vico Moschetto, 10/12, ☎ 39 0873 362926. 
• 42.12199714.70443513 The Leopard, Via Euclide, 27, ☎ 39 0873 366326. 
• 42.12368514.70419214 Amphè, Corso Giuseppe Mazzini, 335, ☎ 39 0873 610303. 
• 42.1198714.70828915 Family Pizzeria, Corso Giuseppe Garibaldi, 81, ☎ 39 0873 368816. 

In Marina di Vasto

Average prices

• 42.10298714.71594716 White Swan, via Donizzetti, ☎ 39 0873 801833. 
• 42.09967114.71976517 Tuscan Trattoria, Viale Dalmazia, 90, ☎ 39 0873 802239. 
• 42.10024614.71898218 Osteria Di Bacco, Via Alfonso Marchesani, 34, ☎ 39 0873 803078. 
• 42.10072514.71918119 ^{[link not working]}Pizzeria Vasto Ippocampo, Via Dalmazia, 52, ☎ 39 0873 802402. 
• 42.10095914.71972220 The panda, Lungomare Cordella, 102, ☎ 39 380 3990710. 
• 42.10001314.72038921 La Rusticana Pizzeria, Lungomare Ernesto Cordella, 88, ☎ 39 0873 801468. 
• 42.10181514.71883622 The Calypso, Viale Dalmazia, 37, ☎ 39 0873 801040. 
• 42.10323614.71882823 La Ciucculella, Promenade Cordella, ☎ 39 0873 801844. 
• 42.10321314.7177924 Favela Chic, Via Dalmazia, ☎ 39 393 3334979. 
• 42.1018814.71919325 Goof Garden Restaurant, Via Itaca, 5, ☎ 39 0873 801227. 

Where stay

Moderate prices

• 42.1059214.7062691 Hotel of the 7, Via S. Michele, 66, ☎ 39 0873 362819. Two stars 
• 42.11473714.7076882 Hotel San Marco, Via Madonna dell'Asilo, 4, ☎ 39 0873 60537. Two stars 
• 42.11523814.7086973 Palizzi Hotel, Corso Giuseppe Mazzini, 14, ☎ 39 0873 367361. Two stars 

Average prices

• 42.1138114.7107054 Locanda Dei Baroni hotels, Via S. Francesco D'Assisi, 68, ☎ 39 0873 370737. 

In Vasto Marina

Hotel

• 42.09762214.7221675 Bristol hotels, Viale Dalmazia, 105, ☎ 39 0873 801491. Three stars 
• 42.10151114.718536 Venice hotels, Via Alfonso Marchesani, 6, ☎ 39 0873 801475. Three stars 
• 42.09620514.7231977 Caravel Hotel, Viale Dalmazia, 130, ☎ 39 0873 801477. Three stars 
• 42.09677614.7229298 Hotel of Italy, Via Dalmazia, 119, ☎ 39 0873 801917. Three stars 
• 42.09589314.7233599 Royal Hotel, Via Dalmazia, 132, ☎ 39 0873 801950. 
• 42.09617114.72281110 Hotel Principe, Via Dalmazia, 124/126, ☎ 39 0873 801457. 
• 42.0952414.72380911 Hotel President, Viale Dalmazia, 136, ☎ 39 0873 801444. 
• 42.09414114.72550412 Park Hotel Resort (http://www.fortecrestgroup.com^{[link previously not working]}), Via Dalmazia, 165, ☎ 39 0873 801934. 

Bed and Breckfast

• 42.11306214.70409713 Sator Rotas, Via F. P. Michetti, 37, ☎ 39 0873 365382. 
• 42.11349914.709314 Twentieth century, Corso Dante Alighieri, 5, ☎ 39 347 2601489. 
• 42.11274914.70975115 Small Garibaldi Circle, Vico Sinello, 10, ☎ 39 339 2377705. 
• 42.11354914.71058216 ^{[link not working]}At the Old Magistrate's Court, Corso Dante Alighieri 32, ☎ 39 347 0569810. , 66054 Vasto CH 
• 42.11376214.71104617 New door, Via S. Francesco D'Assisi, 80, ☎ 39 339 8135256. 

Campsites

• 42.15442214.71611718 Grotta del Saraceno - Holiday village, Via Osca, 6 (in the locality of Punta Penna), ☎ 39 0873 310213. 
• 42.07841214.75060319 Camping Europe, State Road 16 Adriatica Km 522, ☎ 39 0873 801988. 

High prices

In Vasto Marina

• 42.10195414.71908120 Hotel Europa, Via Itaca, 5, ☎ 39 0873 801495. Four stars 

Safety

Pharmacies

• 42.12741314.7066552 Giovannelli, Via Spataro 1, ☎ 39 0873 362291. 
• 42.1168414.7086373 De Luca, Corso Giuseppe Mazzini, 37, ☎ 39 0873 367238. 
• 42.11014814.7082784 Piccolotti, Via Cavour, 35, ☎ 39 0873 368546. 
• 42.12423514.7092245 Pietrocola, Via Giulio Cesare, 61, ☎ 39 0873 367192. 
• 42.10298414.7165876 Russians, Piazza Fiume, 27, ☎ 39 0873 801783. 
• 42.10992314.7016957 Sansanelli, Circonvallazione Histoniense, 40, ☎ 39 0873 380388. 
• 42.11138614.7068978 Savelli, Via Giulia, 12, ☎ 39 0873 367249. 

How to keep in touch

Post office

• 42.12407314.7084869 Italian post, via Giulio Cesare 20, ☎ 39 0873 367294, fax: 39 0873 305207. 
• 42.10994514.70817610 Italian post, via Cavour 10 (Agency n. 1), ☎ 39 0873 304831, fax: 39 0873 363823. 
• 42.10205214.71642211 Italian post, via Sibenik 1 (in Vasto Marina), ☎ 39 0873 802433, fax: 39 0873 801225. 

Around

• Ortona - The ancient monumental inhabited area stretches out on a promontory of the coast; fishing and bathing activities develop on the coast. It is a city linked to important events of the Second World War.
• They launch - City of ancient tradition, it was the capital of the Frentani and then a Roman municipality. It has an ancient nucleus of great interest, which comes alive on the occasion of the numerous historical re-enactments; famous are the Medieval Week with the '' Mastrogiurato '' and the sacred representations of Holy Week. It is a destination for pilgrimages following his Eucharistic miracle
• Termoli - It is the main town on the Molise coast and the second largest city in the region by number of inhabitants. Its ancient core, with the cathedral and fortifications, stands on a promontory overlooking the sea.

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