Torino di Sangro

Located along the Costa dei Trabocchi, Torino di Sangro is a small municipality in the province of Chieti. Rising near an ancient tower, the village took the name Torino, a name that was changed after the Unification of Italy to avoid misunderstandings with the Piedmontese city.

The municipality, of great historical and natural interest, lies inland while its marina is sandwiched between the sea and the Lecceta Litoranea Nature Reserve: a unique site covering 180 hectares that preserves coastal woodland of holm oak, downy oak and manna ash with a shrub layer composed of dogwood, St John\'s rose, hawthorn, alaternus, liquorice and mastic.

Numerous birds find refuge in the area, including the blackcap, the Sardinian warbler, the little tern, the exotic bee-eater nests here, and the ground tortoise lives and breeds in the ivy-covered undergrowth.

The sandy beach of Le Morge, protected from erosion by a system of breakwaters, attracts thousands of bathers every summer thanks to its numerous bathing facilities.

The beach along the Costa Verde promenade is also enchanting. Formerly sandy, it is now covered with gravel, to curb the inexorable and unstoppable advance of the sea.

A little to the north of Le Morge, Turin di Sangro\'s only newly built overflow was built on the rock in place of an older one.

In the municipality we find the British Cemetery, built in the 1950s to house the remains of British soldiers who fell during World War II, and numerous other testimonies to the history of the village, such as the Church of the Madonna of Loreto, built after the miraculous apparition of the Virgin Mary in the skies of the village, and the Church of the Most Holy Saviour Jesus Christ, famous because a precious fragment believed to be from the cross of Christ is preserved there.