Overview
A holiday of art, which you can learn without putting it aside, can be experienced in Treglio.
With the “Treglio Affrescata” event, organized every year for a week, between August and September, the village in the province of Chieti, which is part of the “Painted Villages of Italy”, is transformed into a large open-air school where you can take lessons, together with other "artists" from all over Italy and the world, in the ancient painting technique, and then test yourself with a "personal" show on one of the walls of the houses.
The theme to be interpreted is always the one proposed since 2000, the year the first edition was held: oil and wine, the symbols and products of a community and a territory, anchored in rural and pastoral traditions.
You will easily find inspiration for your fresco in the surrounding environment, on the hills dotted with crops, which surround the village, which slope gently towards the sea of the Trabocchi Coast, but also in the historic centre, full of alleys and corners suggestive.
You find yourself in a village of medieval origins, mentioned in papal bulls of the 12th and 13th centuries, and also identified with the ancient town of Girolum, reported in the Catalog of the Barons as a fiefdom of a soldier dependent on the powerful Abbey of San Giovanni in Venere.
Between one lesson and another you can go and explore the surroundings, visiting for example the parish church, dedicated to Santa Maria Assunta, and the former Bishop's Palace.
The tour will be appreciated for its originality, with the ancient forms of the buildings harmoniously blending with the modern, bright colours of the frescoes, shining here and there in the heart of the old town and taking on the value of a new language, expressing the traditions of an entire population, enhancing the spread of so-called fresco painting.
Your imagination can also be whetted by a dip in the sea, which you can reach five kilometres from the village, where San Vito Chietino Marina with its trabocchi, the 'colossal spiders' described by Gabriele d'Annunzio, stretches out.
And if the week of painting was not enough, you can return during the year to the permanent fresco painting laboratory, which is part of the International Fresco School, open to all and directed by the master Vico Calabrò from Caldogno (Vicenza).
What more do you want in life?
A lunch, based on the delicacies of rural Frentana cuisine, such as "sagne a' pezze" and "sagnette", the "rintrocele", a sort of durum wheat spaghettoni, "pizz' e ffojje", a mixed salad of vegetables sautéed in pan and seasoned, "pallotte cac'e ove", rabbit under the tile and cif e ciaf, based on pork, strictly accompanied by "pizza scima", a yeast-free focaccia, very thin and crunchy.
What else to see:
- The church of San Rocco
- The small church of San Giorgio, on the road to the district of the same name