Curious cat's-cradle-like constructions, trabucchi, dot the Gargano coast, ancient fishing tools still in use today.

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There is the thickly wooded, deep-green, deeply mysterious Gargano Peninsula, which is all rocky harbours, magnetically blue sea and pale sea cliffs.

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We'd meet up with Gary Miller and Dennis Gargano and Matt Walker and John Ballerini and David Clingerman and Jonathan Powell and a dozen other neighborhood kids and run.

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In high summer, it seems that everyone in Italy is here, but June and September are the Gargano's finest months, when the carnival-like crowds are gone, but not everything is closed.

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Before tourism, fishing dominated the Gargano.

BBC: Like the Amalfi coast? Try the Gargano promontory