Beaches and Mountains

Your Abruzzo holiday villa is perfectly-placed for you to explore region's coastline and mountains.

To the west lie the forested slopes and mountain peaks of the Majella National Park. To the east is the Adriatic Sea.

Villasfor2 is pretty much midway between them.

In the winter, you can spend a great day skiing. Your Abruzzo holiday villa is less than an hour from the ski chair-lift at Passo di Lanciano.

In summer you can be at the Adriatic's beaches in half-an-hour: pebbles at Fossacesia Marina; sand at Le Morge.

There are even days each April when you can spend the morning skiing up in the mountains and then hit the beaches for an afternoon sunbathing and swimming.

And all year round you can enjoy the stunning scenery.

A Day at the Seaside ?
Fossacesia and Le Morge have plentiful parking and both have beachside places to eat, drink and have an ice-cream.

Like all Abruzzo beaches, both have areas that are completely free to use. They also have areas – invariably owned by beachside bars – where it'll cost you something around €20 a day to rent a couple of sunbeds and an umbrella. Your choice.

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

But they're 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 even at times in March and October too.

The Costa dei Trabocchi - Abruzzo's Heritage Coast

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

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 dei Trabocchi.

Trabocchi are 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 ones are now being turned into (rather expensive) 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, on your left you'll see the Copa de Dora.

This is ice-cream heaven. One of the handful of Abruzzo gelaterie where the ice-cream's still home-made. 

The good news is that Copa de Dora is open all year. The less good news is that in high summer you may have to wait a little. It's worth it.