Report: Trabocchi – Anonymous Timber ­Architecture in Italy

The “trabocco” is a pile structure used for fishing. Built on rocks in the sea and braced with thick ropes, trabocchi are known to have existed since the 18th century. They are probably a development of a kind of fish trap fixed to the bows of boats. Trabocchi are found especially along the central Adriatic and southern Tyrrhenian coasts of...