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Silvi is an Italian comune in the province of Teramo, about 15 km north of Pescara, in the Abruzzo region of central Italy. It stretches from Silvi Marina, a small seaside resort on the Adriatic Coast, to Silvi Paese up in the hills.Silvi is a town divided into two parts: Silvi Paese or Alta, the old traditional town on the hill overlooking the sea, and Silvi Marina, a modern seaside resort below the hills. The unique location of Silvi Paese (called Castelbelfiore until the 19th century) led to the town's spindle-shaped layout with single main street, from which a network of narrow streets branch off.In the 1860s, after the unification of Italy, in central and southern Italy, new railroads fundamentally altered the traditional relationship between the coast and the interior. On the Adriatic coast, the only centers of some importance were, at that time, Ortona a Mare and Termoli; the other coastal areas were populated only by poor villages of fishermen and farmers, interrupted continually by the wide mouths of numerous streams and periodically subjected to violent floods. The railroads eventually made the coast towns more important than the hill towns such as in the case of Silvi.
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