Blu Bar, Arquata del Tronto

Blu Bar in Arquata del Tronto: location

Blu Bar is in Trisungo, along the Salaria, near the gas station. The bar was hit hard by the earthquakes of August 24 and October 30, 2016. The building was declared unsafe and the business had reopened on a temporary basis in a container on the forecourt, where the gas station also is. In 2025 the historic building was demolished. The demolition is part of the post-earthquake reconstruction plan.

Blu Bar in Arquata del Tronto: what it offers

Blu Bar is a café-bar. All the bar's furnishings and products were moved into the container. The sign also bears the words "la rinascita riparte da qui" ("the rebirth starts again from here"). For local people it has become a meeting point, where they stop during the day even just for a quick chat.

Blu Bar in Arquata del Tronto: what to see nearby

Trisungo is a hamlet of Arquata del Tronto, and the municipality's other hamlets include Pretare, Piedilama, Borgo, Spelonga and Colle. In the main town are:

• the Rocca, built in the 13th century, which controls the Salaria and the Tronto river;
• Porta Sant'Agata, the last surviving part of the medieval walls;
• the 13th-century wooden crucifix of the Church of Santissima Annunziata, considered the oldest in Le Marche, now kept in the church of San Salvatore in the SAE village (temporary emergency housing) of Borgo.

Just outside Pretare, along the road to Forca di Presta, there is an old kiln. The area still bears the marks of the earthquake, so check in advance whether individual sites are accessible. Other options for a stop are on the page about Arquata del Tronto restaurants.