Termoli
Walled Fishing Borgo On An Adriatic Promontory In Molise, With A Swabian Castle, An Apulian Romanesque Cathedral And The Trabucchi Fishing Platforms Along Its Coast · Termoli, Molise
A walled fishing town on a small promontory sticking into the Adriatic, which is about as much as Molise offers on its coast and is genuinely worth a night. The old borgo is a tight grid of low whitewashed houses inside a wall, with a Swabian castle at the landward end and a Romanesque cathedral in the middle whose facade is banded and blind-arcaded in the Apulian manner. On the seaward side the wall drops to the water and there is a gap in it called the Rejecelle, said to be the narrowest alley in Italy, which two people cannot pass in. Along the coast either way stand trabucchi, timber fishing platforms on stilts with nets slung from cantilevered arms, several of which now serve dinner. The port runs ferries to the Tremiti islands through the summer. Nothing here is world-rank and the row grades it accordingly; it is simply a good small place in a region that has almost nothing else on the sea.
Piazza Duomo, Termoli, Molise, 86039, Italy
NO OPENING TIME HERE WAS CHECKED. The structure: the borgo, the sea wall and the beaches are public and never close. The cathedral opens daily with a long early-afternoon interval and shorter winter hours, closing for services. The Swabian castle keeps irregular municipal hours and is frequently shut. Trabucco restaurants run evening service in season. THE TREMITI FERRIES ARE SUMMER-ONLY and cancelled in wind. A number of restaurants close from November to March. Confirm the ferry and the castle before relying on either.