Italy, landscape from the Trabocchi Coast
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Italy, landscape from the Trabocchi Coast
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AM FineArtPrints
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Italy, landscape from the Trabocchi Coast by Andrea Mazzocchetti
A view from the city of Fossacesia, in the region of Abruzzo, Italy. The blue of the sea blends with the sky in this shot from the famous Trabocchi Coast.
The trabocco, or trabucco, is an imposing construction made of structural wood that consists of a platform stretched out on the sea anchored to the rock by large trunks of Aleppo pine, from which stretch, suspended a few meters from the water, two ( or more) long arms, called antennas, which support an enormous network of narrow meshes called trabocchetto.
The different morphology of the Abruzzo and Gargano coast has determined the coexistence of two different types of overflow: that Gargano includes anchoring to a rock spur of a platform extended longitudinally to the coast line, from which the antennas depart. The original Abruzzese typology, technically called scale, often insists on less deep shorelines and is therefore characterized by the presence of a platform in a transverse position with respect to the coast, to which it is connected by a bridge made up of wooden platforms, also the scales have a only winch, electrically driven often, even when the sea is perfectly quiet and the network is much smaller than that of the Gargano overflows; another feature that differentiates the two types is the length and the number of the antennas, more extensive on the Gargano (also twice the size of Abruzzo and Molise); in Termoli the scales have at most two antennas, on the Gargano and in the north of Bari, in Barletta, Trani and Molfetta, always two or more.
According to some Apulian historians, trabucco would be an invention imported from the Phoenicians. The oldest documented existence dates back to the 18th century, a period in which the fishermen of Abruzzo had to work to devise a fishing technique that was not subject to the weather conditions of the area. The overflows, in fact, allow you to fish without having to travel by sea: taking advantage of the rocky morphology of some fish areas of the coast, they were built in the most prominent point of tips and headlands, throwing the nets out through a system of monumental wooden arms.
The first Abruzzese trabocchi of the Teatine coast were built by Jewish families around the end of the 18th century. In 1889 Gabriele D'Annunzio rented a villa near San Vito Chietino, remaining struck by the trabocchi, in particular by the Turchino trabocco, who described in the novel The Triumph of Death (1894).
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