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Vieste
The white Vieste 'whose name us as light and kind as the hesitation of a first half-closed kiss ', exerts a great charm on the soul and feelings, of those people who visit it and stay there, and this whether they be poets or simple tourists. Vieste rises on the extreme eastern peak of Gargano between two sickle-shaped beaches. The view of small town from the sea seems especially fit for the nature which surround it: the white and narrow houses lean one upon the other, in rows here and there broken by stair-alleys, often surmounted by flowery arches, and by very small squares. The town and the promontory on which it stands are dominated by the Castle, built by Frederic II and fortified by Charles of Anjou. Most of the town extends between the Castle and the roadstead limited by the cape of San Felice, which stretches towards the reef on which rises the Tower of the Lanterna, and by the cape of San Francesco where the small church dedicated to the Saint is situated. The Cathedral built on a roman temple overlooks the white houses. Beyond the cape of San Felice the large beach of San Lorenzo stretches for seven kilometers to north-east of Vieste. To the south, where the promontory fails perpendicularly to the sea with a high rocky wall, the soft and white beach called 'of the Castle ' extends on a slight slope to the sea.
