On the coat of arms a tower burns above the sea: it recalls 1352, when the Hungarians of Corrado Lupo destroyed the town. It was not the only time: in 1463 the castle was set on fire because Petacciato had refused to bow to Antonio Caldora.
That castle, Norman and of the eleventh century, was rebuilt as a Renaissance palace after the last Ottoman attack. On the coast stands what is left of the tower Charles V had raised against the Turks, split in two. Petacciato has been an autonomous comune only since 30 December 1923; before that it belonged to Guglionesi. Behind the beach of its 3,638 residents lies one of the finest dune systems on the Adriatic.
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📅 Every year, on 16 August
Petacciato celebrates Saint Roch on 16 August; the saint was venerated from the 13th century in the old church of Santa Maria, in Apulian Romanesque style, before a new church was dedicated to him in 1967.
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Outside Petacciato, but an easy day trip away.
