On nights when the impetuous winds agitate the calm waters of Lake Varano, it seems you can hear a bell ringing in the distance: it is the bell of the old Benedictine convent of San NIcola Imbuti, dating back to the 11th century and now destroyed by time. Yet this story does not talk about that convent although it mentions it. This is a story from other times, when the first planes began to buzz in the skies, with their canvas and wooden fuselages and every stretch of quiet sea or lake could be transformed into a take-off runway for seaplanes. The place is located in Puglia, at the foot of the Gargano, right on the shores of Lake Varano and it is an abandoned seaplane base, started to be built in 1915 to host the seaplanes that would patrol our coasts. When I passed through Cagnano Varano last summer, the cicadas were singing loudly and with Antonio Bufi, branch of Serial Kitchen, guest of Lungomareitalia for a few days, we came across this gloomy yet fascinating place, to discover its history thanks to Michele Coccia. If the stories of abandoned places fascinate you, take a few minutes to watch and share this video: perhaps it could be a destination for your next visit to Puglia. Lungomareitalia was the journey I took along the Italian coasts from Trieste to Genoa aboard the Vostok100k, 1982 camper, in search of stories of men, places and tradition. Three months of travel for 8000 kilometers at a speed of 70 km/h.
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