Beaches and Mountains
Villasfor2 is perfectly-placed for you to get the best from Abruzzo’s astonishingly varied natural resources.

We’re on the very fringes of the Majella National Park; less than an hour from the ski chair-lift at Passo di Lanciano; about 35 minutes from the nearest beach at Fossacesia Marina.

In fact, there are days each April when you can spend the morning skiing up in the mountains and then pass the afternoon sunbathing and swimming down at the beach.

Abruzzo Beaches
We’ve got two typical Abruzzo beaches within an easy half-hour’s drive. Fossacesia Marina and Le Morgie.

Fossacesia’s got a pebble beach; Le Morgie has a beautiful sandy one. Both have free, plentiful parking. Both have beachside places to eat, drink and have an ice-cream.

Like all Italian beaches, both have areas that are completely free to use. Both also have areas – invariably owned by beachside bars – where something around €15 a day will rent you a couple of sunbeds and an umbrella. Your choice.

And like all beaches they get crowded during the peak of the holiday season in August.

But unlike all Italian beaches, our local Abruzzo beaches are very much uncrowded for the rest of the year – even well into July.

The weather’s warm enough to spend a day at the beach anytime between April and September – and you’ll be near enough to both Fossacesia and Le Morgie to grab a morning or an afternoon down at the coast on the fine days we get outside those periods.

The Trabocho. Or Mad Max Goes Fishing...

At the northern end of the beach at Fossacesia Marina – and at regular intervals further northwards along the coast to Ortona, you'll see bizarre wooden piers jutting out into the sea.

They look like the sets for a Mad Max film that got rejected because they were just too weird.

These are trabocchi - traditional fishing platforms, owned by local fishermen for generations and used when it’s too rough to take a boat out to sea. They're unique to Abruzzo and have in fact given their name to this little stretch of coast - Costa Trabocchi.

And they're sturdier than they look too, withstanding the worst of the Adriatic’s winter storms.

Along the coast road, you’ll see stalls where trabocchi owners sell their catch, but more lucratively, some of the larger structures are now being turned into bars and restaurants.

The Best Ice Cream in Abruzzo

The best excuse there is for going to the beach...

Just as you enter San Vito Marina on the coast road from the south, as the road bends round to the left, you'll see the Copa de Dora.

Doesn't look much from the outside; inside is ice-cream heaven. About 40 varieties in summer; about half that number in winter.

Everything's home-made and the flavours and varieties are all stunningly delicious. Join the salivating queue. It's worth the wait.