Anversa degli Abruzzi

Gabriele D'Annunzio visited in 1905 and set his tragedy La fiaccola sotto il moggio in the ruined Norman castle, whose tall, thin remnant is the torch of the title. The village stands where the Gole del Sagittario gorge begins, its medieval core still intact. Until the years after the Second World War its workshops made majolica, and some pieces are on show on the main square.

Highlights

• Gole del Sagittario nature reserve and its botanical garden (IT)
• San Marcello, with a late Gothic portal and chestnut doors from 1468
• D'Annunzio literary park, with a small museum inside the castle
• Santa Maria delle Grazie, with its 1540 portal and 1585 rose window
• The hamlet of Castrovalva, also within the municipality

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