The trabucco or trabocco, in some southern dialects called travocc, is an old fishing machine typical of the Adriatic coast of Abruzzo and also in the coast of Gargano, where they are protected as historical monuments in the Gargano National Park. Trabucchi are spread along the coast of the southern Adriatic, especially in the Italian provinces of Chieti, Campobasso, and Foggia, and also in some parts of the coast of the southern Tyrrhenian Sea.
Trabucco in Fossacesia, Abruzzo
Overflow near Marina San Vito Chietino, in the Abruzzo Trabocchi Coast
Trabucco from the Village of Termoli
A promontory on the rocky coast of Peschici that has two different sized trabucchi
The Trabocchi Coast, which corresponds to the coastal stretch Adriatic of province of Chieti (Abruzzo), is a 70-kilometer coast from Ortona to San Salvo, in Italy. It comprises a number of coves and reefs below the hills that end at the Adriatic Sea marked by the spread of Trabucco – fishing machines on piles. Many of the towns on the Coast maintain their own characteristics and traditions.
Image: Francavilla al Mare 07 (Ra Boe)
Image: Ortona 2006 Ripari di Giobbe by Ra Boe 001
Image: Trabocco Marina di San Vito 001
Image: Trabucco 2010 by Ra Boe 23
