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Scafa's site has been occupied since ancient times. In the medieval era there was a town named Zappino, which had been built over the ruins of a Roman settlement. Ceio, the Roman settlement, had been an asphalt-mining and trade center and it had also been visited for its thermal sulphur springs.
Scafa was administratively part of the near-by town of San Valentino until 1948, when it was made independent. Throughout the feudal era it was therefore ruled by the lords of San Valentino. The town was known as 'the scafa' of San Valentino because it was the point at which boats carried goods and people back and forth across the Pescara river. The present-day town began to develop around 1870, near a wooden bridge which replaced the crossing-boats.
In recent years the town has become a small industrial center because of its asphalt and bitumen quarries and its cement-works, which provide a number of badly needed jobs for this area. The typical Italian roofing tiles are manufactured here from asphalt.
The church of the Madonna del Carmelo has an interesting three-level brick portal with a very nice ceramic depiction of the Virgin Mary and the souls in Purgatory in the lunette. Also of interest is the modern Palazzo Municipiale, the town hall.
The town has a huge outdoor market held every Wednesday, where you can find just about anything from clothing to porchetta. There is also a bus and train station here, where you can get transportation to many destinations.
In Decontra, a village which is part of Scafa, is the Parco Territoriale Attrezzato Sorgenti Sulfuree on the Lavino River. This is a wooded park along the Lavino river characterized by pools in the river in which the water is amazing shades of turquoise blue due to the high natural sulphur content. The park is home to many species of birds, and it contains the largely intact though decaying remains of a grist-mill built about 1600, the Mulino Farnese (known locally as the 'le vrice' mill), which functioned until the 1960s.
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