Duomo di Vasto ★
The church that kept only its face: a fourteenth-century doorway and rose window.
Vasto: 5 places to start with
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Beaches Punta Aderci Reserve Established in 1998, this 285-hectare coastal reserve features sandy dunes and the towering Punta Penna lighthouse. -
Churches Duomo di Vasto The church that kept only its face: a fourteenth-century doorway and rose window. - Castles Castello Caldoresco Giacomo Caldora's fifteenth-century fortress in Vasto, with almond-shaped bastions facing piazza Rossetti.
- Churches Chiesa di Santa Maria Maggiore The mother church of Vasto's old town, with the tallest bell tower in the city and canvases by Solimena.
- Beaches Faro di Punta Penna Vasto's 70-metre lighthouse, the second tallest in Italy after Genoa's Lanterna, with 307 steps to the top.
21 places covered in Vasto Grouped by type, most important first.
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Churches and places of worship
8Chiesa di Santa Maria Maggiore ★
The mother church of Vasto's old town, with the tallest bell tower in the city and canvases by Solimena.
Chiesa di Maria Santissima del Carmine
The eighteenth-century church designed by Mario Gioffredo in Vasto, built over the church of the town's Slav families.
Chiesa di San Pietro
The medieval portal still standing on via Adriatica: all that remains of one of Vasto's oldest churches.
Chiesa di Santa Maria Stella Maris
The Neo-Gothic church of Vasto Marina, built in 1903 to give the people of the coast a place of worship.
Chiesa di San Michele Arcangelo
The nineteenth-century sanctuary of Vasto's patron saint, beside the public gardens, above the coastal viewpoint.
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Chiesa di Santa Maria delle Grazie
The small sixteenth-century church on the viewpoint at the end of via Adriatica, born of devotion after a plague.
Chiesa di Santa Maria di Punta Penna
The Greek-cross church beside the Punta Penna lighthouse, with its May feast and procession of boats.
Castles, palaces and villas
5Castello Caldoresco ★
Giacomo Caldora's fifteenth-century fortress in Vasto, with almond-shaped bastions facing piazza Rossetti.
Palazzo d'Avalos
The residence of the Marquises of Vasto, with a sixteenth-century front and the town's civic museums.
Torre di Punta Penna
The sixteenth-century coastal tower on the Punta Penna promontory, facing the port of Vasto.
Casa Rossetti
The birthplace of the poet Gabriele Rossetti on the Loggia Amblingh, now home to the Rossetti study centre.
Palazzo Aragona
The sixteenth-century palace dedicated to Maria d'Aragona, near Vasto's public gardens, with exhibition rooms.
Beaches
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Punta Aderci Reserve ★
Established in 1998, this 285-hectare coastal reserve features sandy dunes and the towering Punta Penna lighthouse.
Faro di Punta Penna ★
Vasto's 70-metre lighthouse, the second tallest in Italy after Genoa's Lanterna, with 307 steps to the top.
Spiaggia di Punta Penna
The beach of sand and dunes below the Punta Penna promontory, inside the Punta Aderci reserve.
Nature and viewpoints
2Riserva naturale guidata Punta Aderci
The first reserve on the Abruzzo coast: 285 hectares of beaches, dunes and cliffs north of the port of Vasto.
Riserva naturale regionale Marina di Vasto
Three kilometres of dunes and wetlands between Vasto and San Salvo, where the Kentish plover nests.
Archaeology
1Terme di Vasto
The Roman baths of Histonium in Vasto, with the large Neptune mosaic and the black-and-white marine mosaic.
Museums, theatres and collections
1Teatro Rossetti
Vasto's nineteenth-century theatre, born from a Celestine convent, with a horseshoe auditorium of 1905.
Squares, fountains and monuments
1Monumento a Gabriele Rossetti
The monument to Vasto's poet in the elliptical square that follows the Roman amphitheatre, by Filippo Cifariello.
Tours, tickets and experiences
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Near Vasto
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