For you who pass through this place, whatever your spiritual conviction, CHRIST OF THE ABYSS is an invitation to stop for a moment of meditation and reflection inspired by the vastness of the sea and the sky that you have in front of you.
If you are a believer and you regularly visit these places, this image also wants to be "A testimony of Christianity, a continuous and constant reason for aggregation between the people of the sea and the land."
This symbolic place was born from the dream of two friends to "spread and pass on the traditions, including religious ones, of the people of Abruzzo". The idea was strengthened with the sharing of the community and the support of those cultural, sports and service associations that also lent themselves by offering their economic contribution.
In 1994, with the collaboration of the ORSA MINORE Diving Association of Lanciano, the ROTARY CLUB Lanciano, the PA-NATHLON CLUB Lanciano and the SCOGLIO DEL GABBIANO Association of Vallevò, the sculptor Vito Pancella was commissioned to create a bronze statue to be immersed in the seabed of the Costa dei Trabocchi. continues...