Close to the Cathedral, there is a rock called “La Chianca Amara” (the bitter rock), monument to human cruelty. On this rock women, elders and children were slaughtered between the 18th and the 21st of July in 1554 by the Turkis piret Draguth Rais’ hordes. The pirate had ravaged the city with his 70 galleys, reducing healthy women and men into slavery and beheading the others, killing more than 7000. To fend off these pirate attacks, in 1566 a number of fortified towers were built along the Garganic coastline.
Vieste has so much to offer but to spend a nice vacation it is also necessary to choose the right…
Vieste’s old town centre, or “Vieste Vecchia”, rises up on a cliff above the sea, from the Castle’s beach to…
Exploring the old town centre, one can’t miss Punta San Francesco. The small peninsula is found at the end of…
The "Pizzomunno" is a large white rock monolith over 25mt tall, located at beginning of the Scialara Beach, the first…
A little green paradise, San Felice’s bay offers a small, lovely beach with a sandy, shallow sea bottom. Adding to…
Marina Piccola is a bay in the center of Vieste. It has been for many centuries the true port of…
