The Borsacchio Regional Nature Reserve formally protects the unspoiled beauty of an area, that of Borsacchio, with its aspects of integrity of the Abruzzo sandy coast, the presence of embryonic dunes of halophyte vegetation with stretches of Mediterranean scrub where rare species of birds reproduce and stop. The boundaries of the Borsacchio Regional Nature Reserve include an area of 1100 hectares in the municipal territories of Roseto degli Abruzzi and Giulianova. The reserve protects one of the rare stretches of coast and land still free from the uncontrolled urbanization that has transformed the quiet coasts of the Adriatic Sea into a completely built-up and man-made environment in a few decades.