Termoli's Trabucchi.......what's trabucco?!
By stefano colonna
10 Jan 2008
What's trabucco ?!?!
Trabucco (saying also trabocco or travocco) it is an ancient machine give peach diffused in the mean Adriatic, from the coast Frentana until Gargano.
Constructive characteristics
the trabucco it is an imposing construction realized in structural wood that created by of a platform suspended on the large sea berthed to the cliff from log of pine of aleppo, from which they grow tall, suspended to some meter from the water, two (or more) long arms, sayings '' antennas '', that they support an enormous tight mesh net said '' trabocchetto ''.
The various morphology of the garganica and abruzzese coast has determined the known of two various type of trabucco: that garganica previews the anchorage to one logitude cliff spur of one extensive platform to the coast line, from which starts '' the antennas ''. The abruzzese variant often insists on less deep shorelines and it is characterized therefore for the presence of a platform in cross-sectional position regarding the coast, to which it is connected from a litte bridge constituted from wood footrests.
History
the trabucco would be an invention imported in the region from the Fenici. The most ancient date than existence (documented) laughed them XVIII to the century, period in which the fishermen of the Gargano, then insufficient population, had to develop in order to devise one technical of peach that was not subject to the conditions of the wether of the zone: the trabucchi, in fact, they allow to fish without having itself to forward for sea.
The trabucco traditionally it is constructed with the wood of Pinus halepensis|pine of aleppo, typical of Gargano and common pine in all the Adriatic mean; this because it is a almost inexhaustible material, date the spread in the zone, modellabile, resistant to the saltiness and elastic (the trabucco must resist to the strong squalls of North-west wind that they strike the Adriatic bottom ). Some trabucchi have been reconstructed during the last few years, but they have lost for a long time their economic function that in the centuries slid some main source of maintenance of entire families of fishermen made, acquiring in compensation the role of cultural symbols and tourist point.
Technique
the technique of the peach, moreover most effective, it is '' at sight ''. It consists in intercepting, with the great driven in weft nets, the flows of fish that move themselves along gorges of the coast. The trabucchi are located here where the sea introduces them at least found them sand and an adequate depth (5m), and erected near of full of rocks tips oriented generally towards SE or NO, so as to to be able to take advantage of the marine currents.The net comes descent in water thanks to a complex system of winches and, in the same way, ready pulled on in order recovering the fished one. Being impossible to mechanize the operations (no trabucco have to the weight of a motor winch motorized at least two men the hardest task is entrusted to set in action the winches premails to the maneuver of the gigantic net. On the trabucco four men operate in norm (that splits the tasks of sight of the fish and maneuver), "trabuccolanti" sayings '' ''.
Spread
Most diffuse along all the Garganica coast, above all in the coastal zone between Peschici and Vieste (where cape does not exist on which one of these gigantic ones does not rise blots some from peach), the old trabucchi is protected from the National Park of the Gargano and is returns in activity thanks to you to the action of safeguard and valorization of the Park, than it has adopts them to you in sign of respect of the tradition and the garganico atmosphere. Same symbol of the garganica coastal civilization, is later on becomes to you the preferred subject of artists and craftsmen of the place.
Equally diffuse they are the '' trabocchi '' along the molisana and abruzzese coast to south of Pescara. the presence of trabucchi however is attested also along the Tyrrhenian bottom
