Coast and lakes
10 seaside towns that face east: the sunrise coast of the Adriatic
Adriatic coastal comuni in the catalogue, where the sea light comes in the morning. 10 towns shown, ranked by recognitions held.
Table no. 33 · Ranked by residents · 10 towns
The Adriatic coast faces the sunrise, which changes its habits: fishing boats leave in the dark, the beach fills early, the evening belongs to the piazza rather than the shore.
These are the catalogue's Adriatic comuni, ranked by the recognitions they hold. The light at seven in the morning is the argument.
- 1.Roseto Capo Spulico1,887 residentsCosenza · CalabriaA castle on a rock above the Ionian, in a village that began as a satellite of Sybaris in the seventh century BC.
- 2.Vieste13,405 residentsFoggia · ApuliaThe Gargano headland of whitewashed alleys on a white limestone cliff, with the Pizzomunno sea stack standing 26 meters offshore.
- 3.Senigallia44,019 residentsAncona · MarcheThirteen kilometers of fine sand on the Adriatic, hometown to a chef and a photographer whose names carry beyond the region.
- 4.Corigliano-Rossano74,066 residentsCosenza · CalabriaThe Sibari plain city merged in 2018 from two older towns, one built around a Norman castle and the other around a Byzantine manuscript tradition.
- 5.Peschici4,283 residentsFoggia · ApuliaA Gargano cliff-top village above the Adriatic, white houses spilling toward the sea and trabucchi on the headlands.
- 6.Gradara4,889 residentsPesaro e Urbino · MarcheThe walled hill borgo at 142 meters above the Adriatic where Dante set the deaths of Paolo and Francesca, with one of Italy's best-preserved castles.
- 7.Melendugno10,045 residentsLecce · ApuliaSalento's archaeological-beach comune: 17 km of Adriatic coast in Lecce province combining karst pools, Bronze-Age-to-Messapian ruins, and a run of blue-flagged sand.
- 8.Mondolfo14,252 residentsPesaro e Urbino · MarcheA walled hill borgo at 144 meters above the Adriatic, with the frazione of Marotta and its beach below.
- 9.Pineto14,571 residentsTeramo · AbruzzoA planned twentieth-century beach town named for D'Annunzio's poem, with the sixteenth-century Cerrano tower anchoring Abruzzo's first marine protected area.
- 10.Grottammare15,814 residentsAscoli Piceno · MarcheA double town on the Riviera delle Palme, with a palm-lined seafront and a medieval upper borgo where Pope Sixtus V was born.
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