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Places in Abruzzo  Province of Chieti > Fossacesia | |||||||||||||||||||||
Fossacesiaprovince of Chieti, Abruzzo, Italy
 Info:Altitude: 140 m a.s.l
-- Distance from Chieti: 54 km
-- Population: ca. 4800 inhabitants
-- Zip code: 66022
-- Phone Area Code: 0872
-- How to reach it: motorway: A-14 exit Lanciano
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The place
In Southeastern Abruzzo, Fossacesia consists of two separate settlements, one high on a hilltop left of the Sangro river, the other (Fossacesia Marina) along the Adriatic, near the picturesque Punta del Cavalluccio bay.
History:
There was a human settlement in the Neolithic and later in the Roman period. Roman columns and stones were dismantled and reused in the Abbey of St. Giovanni in Venere. There was a strong Benedectine influence in the development of the area, and in the XII century there was on the site a borough called Fossa Coeca ("blind ditch"). Then many different families possessed it in the late Middle Ages and Renaissance.
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