ANVERSADEGLIABRUZZI


Anversa (660 m a.s.l) rises in the high valley of Sagittario and stretches out on a spur which overlooks the river mouth.
Its finds which testify a noble and refined past are preserved intact. The poet Gabriele Dannunzio who visited the town together with Antonio De Nino, a scholar of Abruzzi folklore, set here his work "La fiaccola sotto il moggio".
The parish church (XI century) devoted to Pope Saint Marcello who is the town martyr patron rises in the historical centre. Porta Pozziana, Porta San Nicola and part of the southern walls are the only remains of the old town external walls which are mainly made up of houses built on generally rocky precipices and linked one to the other so as to close the centre in a circle. Inside the town, there are some interesting lanes such as Via Tartaruga, Vico medio, Vico Piazzetta, Vico degli Archi and some peculiar spaces which have been drawn above some lanes through retaining arches connecting house to house.
The WWF has created a reserve and a visiting centre devoted to the Sagittario dikes in Anversa. the preserved area covers a territory of about 450 hectares and stretches from 500 m below the town to the external preseved area of the National Park of A bruzzi at 1500 m.