Sights in Vieste
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Pizzomunno
Pizzomunno, the unmistakable white rocky tower jutting out of the sea as you approach Vieste from the south, is a natural landmark with a tale to tell. If legend is to be believed, underneath that hard rocky exterior lies the heart of a romantic.
Pizzomunno, so the story goes, was a humble fisherman in love with the beautiful Cristalda. Jealous sirens, unable to tempt him with their wily charms, dragged Cristalda to the bottom of the sea and turned the heartbroken Pizzomunno into a rock. But the sirens weren't completely wicked. Every 100 years the rock breaks free and the lovers are reunited for one wild night.
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La Salata
At 9km north of town, off the SP52 towards the Hotel Gabbiano Beach, is a palaeochristian graveyard dating from the 4th to the 6th centuries AD, La Salata. The cave burial chambers are found in marshland close to the sea, in an area dense with typical Mediterranean maquis. Inside the caves tier upon tier of narrow tombs are cut into the rock wall; others form shallow niches in the cave floor.
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Southern Beaches
There's plenty of sun and sand for beach worshippers. The best beaches, such as Baia di San Felice and Baia di Campi, are south of Vieste. The beaches are lined with lidos where you can hire umbrellas, sun-beds, canoes and pedalos.
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Cathedral
Built by the Normans on the ruins of a Vesta temple, the cathedral is in Puglian-Romanesque style with a fanciful tower that resembles a cardinal’s hat. It was rebuilt in 1800.
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Museo Malacologico
The Museo Malacologico has three rooms of fossils and molluscs (shells), some enormous and all beautifully patterned and coloured. Prices start at a reasonable €3.
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Chianca Amara
The most gruesome of the handful of sights in Vieste is the Chianca Amara, where thousands were beheaded when Turks sacked Vieste in the 16th century.
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Castle
At the town's highest point is the castle built by Frederick II. It's now occupied by the military and closed to the public.
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Spiaggia del Castello
If you don't have your own transport, Spiaggia del Castello, of Pizzomunno fame, is an easily accessible beach.
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