Pescara (; nap, label=
Abruzzese, Pescàrë; nap, label=
Pescarese, Piscàrë) is the capital city of the
Province of Pescara
The province of Pescara ( it, provincia di Pescara; Abruzzese: ') is a province in the Abruzzo region of Italy. Its provincial capital is the city Pescara, which has a population of 119,483 inhabitants. As of 2017, it has a total population of ...
, in the
Abruzzo
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region
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of
Italy
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. It is the most populated city in Abruzzo, with 119,217 (2018) residents (and approximately 350,000 including the surrounding metropolitan area). Located on the
Adriatic
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coast at the mouth of the
Aterno-Pescara
The Aterno-Pescara (ancient ''Aternus'' from the Greek ''Aternos'', ''Άτερνος'') is a river system in Abruzzo, eastern central Italy. The river is known as the Aterno near its source in the mountains, but takes the name Pescara, actually a ...
River, the present-day municipality was formed in 1927 joining the municipalities of the old Pescara fortress, the part of the city to the south of the river, and Castellamare Adriatico, the part of the city to the north of the river. The surrounding area was formed into the province of Pescara.
The main commercial street of the city is Corso Umberto I, which runs between two squares, starting from ''Piazza della Repubblica'' and reaching the seacoast in ''Piazza Primo Maggio''. The rectangle that it forms with Corso Vittorio Emanuele II and Via Nicola Fabrizi is home of the main shopping district, enclosed in a
driving restriction zone, where several of the best fashion shops are located. Corso Manthoné, the course of the old Pescara, has, for many years, been the center of the nightlife of the city. City hall and the administration of the province are in Piazza Italia, near the river, and in the area between here and the
D'Annunzio University campus to the south, a business district has grown up over the years, while the
Marina
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A marina differs from a port in that a marina does not handle large passenger ships o ...
is situated to the immediate south of the mouth of the river. Pescara is also served by an important international airport, the
Abruzzo Airport
Abruzzo Airport is an international airport serving Pescara, Italy. It is located approximately 4 km (2.5 miles) from the centre of Pescara, about 180 km (112 miles) from Rome, a 2-hour drive by car on a motorway across the Apennine ...
, and one of the major touristic ports of
Adriatic Sea
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and
Italy
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, the
Port of Pescara
The port of Pescara is an Italian port on the Adriatic Sea at the mouth of the River Pescara in the city of Pescara.
History and The marina and the backdrop of the Gran Sasso of Italy
The port of Pescara was conceived mainly as a staging area ...
.
Geography
Pescara is situated at sea level on the Adriatic coast and has developed from some centuries BC onwards at the strategic position around the mouth of the Aterno-Pescara River. The coast is low and sandy and the beach extends, unbroken for some distance to both the north and the south of the river, reaching a width of approximately in the area around a ''pineta'' (a small pine forest) to the north. To the south the pine forest that once gave shade to bathers along much of the Adriatic coast, has almost disappeared near the beach, but remains within the
Nature Reserve Pineta Dannunziana
The Nature Reserve Pineta Dannunziana (informally known as D'Avalos Park) is a nature reserve located in Pescara, Abruzzo, Italy. It was established in 2000.
History
In 1528, Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, granted the entire area corresponding to ...
.
The urban fabric of the city spreads over a flat T-shaped area, which occupies the valley around the river and the coastal strip. To the northwest and the southwest, the city is also expanding into the surrounding hills which were first occupied in the Neolithic period.
The whole city is affected by the presence of groundwater, the level of which varies by up to a metre, being at its highest in spring due to snow melting in the mountains inland.
The city is very close to the mountains, and the ski slopes of Passo Lanciano it only takes a 30 minutes drive.
Climate
Pescara has a borderline
Mediterranean climate
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(Csa) and
humid subtropical climate
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(Cfa) with hot summers and cool winters. Since its driest month has of precipitation, the city cannot be solely classified as Mediterranean. Not to mention, although there is a dry tendency in early summer, August (late summer) is wetter than the winter month of February, which is unusual for the Mediterranean pattern.
The average
temperature
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Thermometers are calibrated in various temperature scales that historically have relied o ...
is around in the coldest month (January) and in the warmest month (July). The lowest temperature recorded in the city was on 4 January 1979. The highest was registered on 30 August 2007 at .
Precipitation
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is low (around per annum) and concentrated mainly in the late autumn.
Pescara is a coastal city, but its climate is influenced by the surrounding mountains (the
Maiella
The Maiella (or Majella) is a massif in the Central Apennines, in Abruzzo, central Italy.
Geography
The mountain is located at the boundary between the provinces of Chieti, Pescara and L'Aquila.
The highest peak is Monte Amaro at 2,793&nb ...
and the chain of
Gran Sasso
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). When the wind is southwesterly, Pescara experiences a
Foehn wind
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It is a rain shadow wind that results from the subsequent adiabatic warming of air that has dropped most of ...
that often reaches , causing a sudden increase in temperature and decrease in relative humidity, and for that reason winters with temperatures that exceed almost daily are not unknown.
Under northeasterly winds Pescara suffers precipitation which is generally weak, but can be much more intense if accompanied by a
depression. Also from the north east comes winter weather from
Siberia
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that, on average, brings abundant snowfalls every 3–4 years. In summer the weather is mostly stable and sunny with temperatures that, thanks to the sea breeze, rarely exceed 35 degrees unless a southwesterly
Libeccio
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is blowing. Particularly in summer, but also in winter, the high humidity leads to morning and evening mist or haze.
History
![Pescara - corso Manthoné - 01](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/11/Pescara_-_corso_Manthon%C3%A9_-_01.jpg)
Pescara's origins precede the
Roman
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conquest. It was founded to be the port of
Vestini
() were an Italic tribe who occupied the area of the modern Abruzzo (central Italy), included between the Gran Sasso and the northern bank of the Aterno river. Their main centres were ''Pitinum ''(near modern L'Aquila), ''Aufinum ''(Ofena), ''Pe ...
and
Marrucini
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tribes
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to trade with the peoples of the Orient, a supporting role that was held for centuries. The name of both the town and the river was
Aternum Aternum was a Roman town, on the site of Pescara, in Italy. Some historians also refer to Aternum with the name of ''Ostia Aterni'',Giuseppe Quieti, ''Pescara antica città'' due to its location at the mouth of the river Aternus. Being connected to ...
(in
Greek
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''Άτερνος''), it was connected to Rome through the
Via Claudia Valeria
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The route
It ran first up the Anio valley past ...
and the
Via Tiburtina
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Historical road
It was probably built by the Roman censor Marcus Valerius Maxi ...
. The main building was the temple of ''Jovis Aternium''. The town was an important port for trade with the
Eastern provinces of the Empire.
In the
Middle Ages
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it was destroyed by the
Lombards
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The medieval Lombard historian Paul the Deacon wrote in the ''History of the Lombards'' (written between 787 and ...
(597).
Saint Cetteus
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, the town's patron saint, was a
bishop
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of the 6th century, elected to the see of
Amiternum
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in
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(today the city of
San Vittorino
San Vittorino Amiterno is a village in the Abruzzo, region of central Italy. It is a ''frazione'' of the ''comune'' of L'Aquila.
History
S. Vittorino is important because the ancient Roman city of Amiternum
Amiternum was an ancient Sabine ...
) in 590, during the pontificate of
Gregory the Great
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.
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/ref> His legend goes that he was executed by the Lombards at Amiternum by being thrown off a bridge with a stone tied around his neck; his body floated to Pescara.
In 1095 Pescara was a fishing village enriched with monuments and churches. In 1140 Roger of Sicily
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conquered the town, giving rise to a period in which it was destroyed by armies ravaging the Kingdom of Sicily
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. The name of ''Piscaria'' ("abounding with fish") is mentioned for the first time in this period. Several seignors ruled over Pescara afterwards, including Rainaldo Orsini, Louis of Savoy
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and Francesco del Borgo, the vicar of king Ladislaus of Naples
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, who had the fortress and the tower built. The subsequent rulers were the D'Avalos. In 1424 the famous condottiero
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Muzio Attendolo
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died here. Another adventurer, Jacopo Caldora {{Infobox noble, type
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, conquered the town in 1435 and 1439. In the following years Pescara was repeatedly attacked by the Venetians, and later, as part of the Spanish Kingdom of Naples
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, it was turned into a massive fortress
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.
In 1566 it was besieged by 105 Turk
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galley
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s. It resisted fiercely and the Ottomans
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only managed to ravage the surrounding territory.
At the beginning of the 18th century Pescara had some 3,000 inhabitants, half of them living in Castellammare, a small frazione
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of the fortress. In 1707 it was attacked by Austria
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n troops under the command of the Count of Wallis: the town, led by Giovanni Girolamo II Acquaviva, resisted for two months before capitulating.
Pescara was always part of the Kingdom of Naples
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, apart from the brief age of the Republic of Naples of 1798–99. The town was therefore attacked by the pro-Bourbon Bourbon may refer to:
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Giuseppe Pronio. In 1800 Pescara fell to French
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troops, becoming an important military stronghold of Joseph Bonaparte
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, house = Bonaparte
, father = Carlo Buonaparte
, mother = Letizia Ramolino
, birth_date = 7 January 1768
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's reign. Castellammare, which now had 3,000 inhabitants of its own, became a separate municipality.
In 1814, Pescara's Carboneria
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revolted against Joachim Murat
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. There, on 15 May 1815, the king undersigned one of the first constitutions of the Italian
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Risorgimento
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. In the following years Pescara became a symbol of the Bourbon Bourbon may refer to:
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's violent restoration as it housed one of the most notorious Bourbon jails. After a devastating flood in 1853, Pescara was liberated by Giuseppe Garibaldi
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's collaborator Clemente De Caesaris in 1860. Seven years later the fortress was dismantled.
In the sixty following years Pescara was included in the Province of Chieti
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and then merged with the adjacent town of Castellammare Adriatico
Pescara (; nap, label= Abruzzese, Pescàrë; nap, label= Pescarese, Piscàrë) is the capital city of the Province of Pescara, in the Abruzzo region of Italy. It is the most populated city in Abruzzo, with 119,217 (2018) residents (and approxim ...
and eventually became the largest city of its region. The new city suffered heavy civilian casualties when it was bombed by the Allies who were attempting to cut German supply lines during World War II
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. It has since been massively rebuilt, becoming a very modern coastal city of Italy.
Government
Main sights
The city is divided in two by the river in between.
The historic city center is located on the south shore, where once stood the Piazzaforte (fortified town), a military bulwark of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies
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. There is the Bagno Borbonico (the old prison of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, built starting in 1510 by order of Charles V Charles V may refer to:
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, which incorporated inside the remains of the Norman
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and Byzantine
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city walls). Today it houses the Museum of the Abruzzi people: the institution traces, through 13 halls dedicated to aspects of life, traditions and economy, 4,000 years of history of the Abruzzo
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people.
In the historic city center are the birthplace houses of Gabriele D'Annunzio and Ennio Flaiano
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, and the San Cetteo Cathedral, built between 1933 and 1938.
On the north shore of the river there's Piazza Italia (Italy Square), overlooked by the City Hall and the Government Building (which houses the headquarters of the Province of Pescara
The province of Pescara ( it, provincia di Pescara; Abruzzese: ') is a province in the Abruzzo region of Italy. Its provincial capital is the city Pescara, which has a population of 119,483 inhabitants. As of 2017, it has a total population of ...
), both built during the Fascist era according to the fascist rationalist style and designed by the architect Vincenzo Pilotti. Mr. Pilotti designed the majority of the public buildings of the city, including the seat of the local Chamber of Commerce
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, of the Liceo Classico
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Until 1969, this was ...
"G. D'Annunzio" high school, and the old seat of the court
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(which now houses a museum).
In the far southern part of the city, between the Nature Reserve Pineta Dannunziana
The Nature Reserve Pineta Dannunziana (informally known as D'Avalos Park) is a nature reserve located in Pescara, Abruzzo, Italy. It was established in 2000.
History
In 1528, Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, granted the entire area corresponding to ...
and the beach, there is an elegant Art Nouveau
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villas district designed in 1912 by Antonino Liberi (an engineer brother-in-law of D'Annunzio). There is also the Aurum, first headquarters of a social club (called the Kursaal), then liquor factory, and today public multipurpose space.
In 2007 was built the Ponte del Mare, the largest pedestrian and cycle bridge in Italy.
On the northern waterfront, close to the ''Salotto Square'', the main square of the city, there is the ''Nave'' (trad. the ship), a sculpture by Pietro Cascella
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large monumental sculptures, including the '' International Monument to the Victims of Fascism'' in the Auschwitz II-Birkenau death ca ...
.
Economy
Pescara is the most populous city in the Abruzzo
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region, and is one of the top ten economic, commercial, and tourist centers on the Adriatic
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coast. Featuring a shoreline that extends for more than , Pescara is a popular seaside resort on the Adriatic coast during summer. Situated in the sea at a short distance from the waterline there are many breakwaters made with large rocks, that were placed to preserve the shore from water-flood erosion.
In the city there are the administrative headquarters of De Cecco
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History
The company was founded in 1886 by the De Cecco brothers in the small town of Fara ...
company and the Fater S.p.a., an equal joint venture partner with the Angelini Group and Procter & Gamble.
Culture
Every July Pescara holds an international jazz festival: Pescara Jazz
Pescara Jazz is an international jazz festival that takes place every year in July in Pescara, Abruzzo, Italy.
When it started in 1969 it was the first Italian summer festival dedicated to jazz. Since 1981, the festival has take place every year ...
was the first Italian summer festival dedicated to jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major ...
music. Since 1969, it has been one of the most important jazz festivals in Europe
Europe is a large peninsula conventionally considered a continent in its own right because of its great physical size and the weight of its history and traditions. Europe is also considered a Continent#Subcontinents, subcontinent of Eurasia ...
, as reported by the main dedicated international magazines.
Every year (between June and July) the city also holds the Flaiano Prizes
The Flaiano Prizes ( it, Premi Flaiano) are a set of Italian international awards recognizing achievements in the fields of creative writing, cinema, theater and radio-television.
Established to honour the Italian author and screenwriter Ennio Flai ...
, one of Italy's International Film Festivals.
Pescara was the birthplace of Gabriele D'Annunzio and Ennio Flaiano
Ennio Flaiano (5 March 1910 – 20 November 1972) was an Italian screenwriter, playwright, novelist, journalist, and drama critic. Best known for his work with Federico Fellini, Flaiano co-wrote ten screenplays with the Italian director, including ...
. Vittoria Colonna
Vittoria Colonna (April 149225 February 1547), marchioness of Pescara, was an Italian noblewoman and poet. As an educated, married noblewoman whose husband was in captivity, Colonna was able to develop relationships within the intellectual circl ...
was the marchioness of Pescara.
University
Pescara and Chieti
Chieti (, ; , nap, label= Abruzzese, Chjïétë, ; gr, Θεάτη, Theátē; lat, Theate, ) is a city and ''comune'' (municipality) in Central Italy, east by northeast of Rome. It is the capital of the province of Chieti in the Abruzzo region. ...
are the homes of the G. d'Annunzio University. Pescara is home to the Departments of Architecture, Economics, Business Administration, Quantitative Economics, Social and Legal Sciences, Modern Languages Literatures and Cultures, as Chieti, together with the Rector and Academic Senate, is home to the Departments of Medicine and Science of Aging, Experimental and Clinical Sciences, Neuroscience and Imaging, Oral Health Sciences and Biotechnology, Pharmacy, Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Humanities Psychological Sciences, Engineering and Geology for a total of about 31,257 students in the 201
Since 2009, Rome
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ISIA Isia may refer to:
* ''Isia'' (moth), a genus of moths in the subfamily Arctiinae
* isiA, a photosynthetic protein
*International Ski Instructors Association
*Istituto Superiore per le Industrie Artistiche
ISIA - Istituto Superiore per le Industri ...
has a subsidiary in Pescara, training students in the field of industrial design
Industrial design is a process of design applied to physical Product (business), products that are to be manufactured by mass production. It is the creative act of determining and defining a product's form and features, which takes place in advan ...
.
In the city center is located the headquarters of ICRANet
ICRANet, the International Center for Relativistic Astrophysics Network, is an international organization which promotes research activities in relativistic astrophysics and related areas. Its members are four countries and three Universities and ...
, the International Center for Relativistic Astrophysics Network, an international organization
An international organization or international organisation (see spelling differences), also known as an intergovernmental organization or an international institution, is a stable set of norms and rules meant to govern the behavior of states an ...
promoting research activities in relativistic astrophysics and related areas.
Sports
The city has a football team, Delfino Pescara 1936
Delfino Pescara 1936, commonly referred to as Pescara, is a professional Italian football club based in Pescara, Abruzzo.
The club was formed in 1936 and currently plays in Serie C. Pescara has competed in seven seasons in Serie A, 1977–78, ...
, which in June 2012 was promoted to Serie A
The Serie A (), also called Serie A TIM for national sponsorship with TIM, is a professional league competition for football clubs located at the top of the Italian football league system and the winner is awarded the Scudetto and the Coppa ...
, the highest league in Italy
Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical re ...
. Pescara Calcio, who have played 38 seasons in the cadet championship, have spent 7 previous seasons in Serie A, especially in the 1980s–90s.
Pescara hosted the 2009 Mediterranean Games
The 2009 Mediterranean Games, officially the XVI Mediterranean Games ( it, XVI Giochi del Mediterraneo) and commonly known as Pescara 2009, was a multi-sport event held in Pescara, Italy, from 26 June to 5 July 2009. It was governed by the Inte ...
, having defeated Rijeka
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, Croatia
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for the privilege. In 2015, from 28 August to 6 September, the first edition of the Mediterranean Beach Games was held in the city in 2015.
Between 1924 and 1961, Pescara hosted the Coppa Acerbo
The Coppa Acerbo was an automobile race held in Italy, named after Tito Acerbo, the brother of Giacomo Acerbo, a prominent fascist politician. Following Italy's defeat in World War II, and the consequent demise of fascism, the race was renamed the ...
automobile race, which in 1957 formed the penultimate round of the World Championship of Drivers
Formula One (also known as Formula 1 or F1) is the highest class of international racing for open-wheel single-seater formula racing cars sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA). The World Drivers' Championship, ...
.
Since 2011 the Italian edition of the Ironman 70.3 An Ironman 70.3, also known as a Half Ironman, is one of a series of long-distance triathlon races organized by the World Triathlon Corporation (WTC). The "70.3" refers to the total distance in miles (113.0 km) covered in the race, consisting o ...
takes place in the city of Pescara, chosen for the characteristics of the territory, for the possibility of building a competition that starts from the sea, continue towards the mountains and ends in the city center.
Transport
As regards public transport Pescara has a wide assortment of services, the city benefits from it a very favourable position with regard to roads.
Motorways
The territory between Pescara and Chieti is crossed by two pan-European roads, autostrada A14 (Italy)
The A14 "''Adriatic''" is the second-longest Italian motorway. Its northern end is Bologna (on the bypass with the "Tyrrhenian" A1) and its southern ending is at Taranto, bordering the Adriatic coast and unifying historical local roads.
Inaugura ...
Bologna
Bologna (, , ; egl, label= Emilian, Bulåggna ; lat, Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in Northern Italy. It is the seventh most populous city in Italy with about 400,000 inhabitants and 150 different nat ...
– Taranto
Taranto (, also ; ; nap, label= Tarantino, Tarde; Latin: Tarentum; Old Italian: ''Tarento''; Ancient Greek: Τάρᾱς) is a coastal city in Apulia, Southern Italy. It is the capital of the Province of Taranto, serving as an important com ...
and autostrada A25 (Italy)
The Autostrada A25 Torano–Pescara is a motorway which allows travel from Torano to Pescara in Italy. Along with the A24 it is also named the ''Autostrada dei Parchi'' (“Motorway of the Parks”). It runs from the A24 near Torano, past the Fuc ...
Torano – Pescara, connected with the local bypass road system.
Airport
Pescara is served from an international airport called Abruzzo Airport
Abruzzo Airport is an international airport serving Pescara, Italy. It is located approximately 4 km (2.5 miles) from the centre of Pescara, about 180 km (112 miles) from Rome, a 2-hour drive by car on a motorway across the Apennine ...
(Aeroporto di Pescara) that connects the entire region with many Italian and European destinations like Barcelona-Girona, Brussels-Charleroi, Frankfurt-Hahn, Kraków, London-Stansted, Paris-Beauvais, Milan-Bergamo, Copenhagen, Weeze
Weeze (, Dutch: ''Wees'') is a municipality in the Lower Rhine (Niederrhein) region, in the northwestern part of North Rhine-Westphalia in the district of Kleve in the region of Düsseldorf.
The municipality consists of the town of Weeze and th ...
, Milan Linate, Tirana, Bucarest, Palermo, Catania and Olbia.
From the bus stop in front of the railway station there has been a daily connection of ITA Airways
Italia Trasporto Aereo S.p.A., trading as ITA Airways, is the state-owned flag carrier airline of Italy. It is fully owned by the Government of Italy via the Ministry of Economy and Finance. The airline flies to over 60 scheduled domestic, E ...
by bus, to and from Rome Fiumicino Airport
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since 1 December 2022, allowing a connection with the airline's hub.
Port
Pescara is served by the Port of Pescara
The port of Pescara is an Italian port on the Adriatic Sea at the mouth of the River Pescara in the city of Pescara.
History and The marina and the backdrop of the Gran Sasso of Italy
The port of Pescara was conceived mainly as a staging area ...
for fishing, yachting, cargo docking and commercial passenger services. In summer season ferries and hydrofoils to Croatia
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run primarily by SNAV
SNAV (Società Navigazione Alta Velocità) is an Italian company that operates ferry services from Italy to Sardinia, Croatia and Sicily.
Routes
SNAV operates a large network of routes across the Mediterranean and Adriatic.
*Naples - Palerm ...
to Split
Split(s) or The Split may refer to:
Places
* Split, Croatia, the largest coastal city in Croatia
* Split Island, Canada, an island in the Hudson Bay
* Split Island, Falkland Islands
* Split Island, Fiji, better known as Hạfliua
Arts, enterta ...
and islands in central Dalmatia
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, but often they set out from the larger and better equipped Port of Ortona.
Rail
The city has four railway stations
A train station, railway station, railroad station or depot is a railway facility where trains stop to load or unload passengers, freight or both. It generally consists of at least one platform, one track and a station building providing such ...
, Pescara Centrale railway station
Pescara Centrale railway station ( it, stazione ferroviaria di Pescara Centrale), also known as Pescara railway station (Italian:'' stazione ferroviaria di Pescara'') is the main railway station of Pescara. The station lies on the Adriatic line ...
is the main and largest in Abruzzo, as well as one of the larger railway stations without train terminal in Italy, connecting with some of the major Italian cities like Rome
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, Milan
Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 million, while its metropolitan city h ...
, Turin
Turin ( , Piedmontese language, Piedmontese: ; it, Torino ) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in Northern Italy. It is the capital city of Piedmont and of the Metropolitan City of Turin, and was the first Italian capital ...
, Bologna
Bologna (, , ; egl, label= Emilian, Bulåggna ; lat, Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in Northern Italy. It is the seventh most populous city in Italy with about 400,000 inhabitants and 150 different nat ...
, Bari
Bari ( , ; nap, label= Barese, Bare ; lat, Barium) is the capital city of the Metropolitan City of Bari and of the Apulia region, on the Adriatic Sea, southern Italy. It is the second most important economic centre of mainland Southern Italy a ...
, Ancona
Ancona (, also , ) is a city and a seaport in the Marche region in central Italy, with a population of around 101,997 . Ancona is the capital of the province of Ancona and of the region. The city is located northeast of Rome, on the Adriatic S ...
, Trieste
Trieste ( , ; sl, Trst ; german: Triest ) is a city and seaport in northeastern Italy. It is the capital city, and largest city, of the autonomous region of Friuli Venezia Giulia, one of two autonomous regions which are not subdivided into provi ...
and many other cities. The other stations are Pescara Porta Nuova, Pescara Tribunale and Pescara San Marco.
Bus
Pescara is served from several bus lines (operated by TUA, Società unica abruzzese di trasporto). There is a direct bus line to Roma Tiburtina
Roma Tiburtina is the second largest railway station in Rome, after Roma Termini. Located in the north-eastern part of the city, it was originally constructed during the 1860s as a terminal station. In recent years, the station has been redevelop ...
(Rome
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) via Pescara Centrale (about a two and a half hour ride).
Trolleybus
A trolleybus
A trolleybus (also known as trolley bus, trolley coach, trackless trolley, trackless tramin the 1910s and 1920sJoyce, J.; King, J. S.; and Newman, A. G. (1986). ''British Trolleybus Systems'', pp. 9, 12. London: Ian Allan Publishing. .or troll ...
automatic steering system line connecting the city center with its strategic points like Pescara Centrale railway station
Pescara Centrale railway station ( it, stazione ferroviaria di Pescara Centrale), also known as Pescara railway station (Italian:'' stazione ferroviaria di Pescara'') is the main railway station of Pescara. The station lies on the Adriatic line ...
and the Abruzzo International Airport
Abruzzo Airport is an international airport serving Pescara, Italy. It is located approximately 4 km (2.5 miles) from the centre of Pescara, about 180 km (112 miles) from Rome, a 2-hour drive by car on a motorway across the Apennine ...
and other nearby cities is being built.
Notable people
* Federico Caffè
Federico Caffè (born 6 January 1914; disappeared 15 April 1987; declared dead 30 October 1998) was a notable Italian economist from the Keynesian School.
Early life
Caffè graduated in Business Sciences from the University of Rome La Sapien ...
(1914–1987), economist
* Andrea Caldarelli
Andrea Caldarelli (born 14 February 1990 in Pescara) is an Italian racing driver. He has competed in such series as Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0, the Formula Three Euroseries, GP2 Asia, the GP3 Series and the Super Formula series.
He undertook ...
(1990–), racing driver
* Giada Colagrande
Giada Colagrande (born 16 October 1975) is an Italian film director and actress.
Life and career
In 2005 Colagrande directed her second feature, ''Before it Had a Name'', which she co-wrote and co-starred in with Willem Dafoe. The two had met on ...
(1975–), actress and film director
* Gabriele D'Annunzio (1863–1938), poet, novelist and politician
* Ildebrando D'Arcangelo
Ildebrando D'Arcangelo (born 14 December 1969) is an Italian opera singer. He has been called a bass-baritone, though he prefers the term basso cantabile.
Career
A native of Pescara, Abruzzo, D'Arcangelo began his studies in 1985 at the conser ...
, opera singer
* Giovanni De Benedictis
Giovanni De Benedictis (born 8 January 1968, in Pescara) is a retired Italian race walker, that won 9 medals at individual level, 7 of these at senior level, at the International athletics competitions. He participated at five editions of the Sum ...
, retired race walker
Racewalking, or race walking, is a long-distance discipline within the sport of athletics. Although a foot race, it is different from running in that one foot must appear to be in contact with the ground at all times. Referee, Race judges careful ...
* Eusebio Di Francesco
Eusebio Di Francesco (; born 8 September 1969) is an Italian manager, and former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.
Club career
Di Francesco started his career with Tuscan teams Empoli and Lucchese. In 1995, he joined Piacenza ...
(1969–), Football Manager of Cagliari Calcio
* Ennio Flaiano
Ennio Flaiano (5 March 1910 – 20 November 1972) was an Italian screenwriter, playwright, novelist, journalist, and drama critic. Best known for his work with Federico Fellini, Flaiano co-wrote ten screenplays with the Italian director, including ...
, screenwriter
A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs and video games, are based.
...
, novelist, journalist
* Francesco Panzieri
Francesco Panzieri (born April 27, 1985) is an Italian-American visual effects compositing artist and supervisor. He has worked on the films of Denis Villeneuve, J. J. Abrams, Quentin Tarantino and Anthony & Joe Russo, among others.
Education
...
, visual effects
Visual effects (sometimes abbreviated VFX) is the process by which imagery is created or manipulated outside the context of
a live-action shot in filmmaking and video production.
The integration of live-action footage and other live-action foota ...
artist
* Stefano Pessina
Stefano Pessina (born 4 June 1941) is an Italian-Monegasque billionaire businessman; he is the executive chairman and largest single shareholder of Walgreens Boots Alliance.
Early life
Pessina was born in Pescara and grew up between Milan, C ...
, business man and Executive Chairman of Alliance Boots
Alliance Boots GmbH was a multinational pharmacy-led health and beauty group with corporate headquarters in Bern, Switzerland and operational headquarters in Nottingham and Weybridge, United Kingdom.
The company had a presence in over 27 countr ...
* Stefano Prizio
Stefano Prizio (born 31 May 1988 in Pescara) is an Italian footballer who plays as a defender for L'Aquila on loan from Monza
Monza (, ; lmo, label=Lombard language, Lombard, Monça, locally ; lat, Modoetia) is a city and ''comune'' on t ...
, footballer
* Sara Serraiocco
Sara Serraiocco (born 13 August 1990) is an Italian actress, best known for playing Baldwin in the TV series '' Counterpart''.
Life and career
Born in Pescara, Serraiocco developed from a young age a passion for dance and cinema, later workin ...
, actress
* Floria Sigismondi
Floria Sigismondi (, born 1965) is an Italian-Canadian film director, screenwriter, music video director, artist, and photographer.
She is best known for writing and directing '' The Runaways'', for directing music videos for performers includi ...
, Canadian photographer and director
Director may refer to:
Literature
* ''Director'' (magazine), a British magazine
* ''The Director'' (novel), a 1971 novel by Henry Denker
* ''The Director'' (play), a 2000 play by Nancy Hasty
Music
* Director (band), an Irish rock band
* ''Di ...
* Enzo Trulli
Enzo Trulli (born 15 April 2005) is an Italian racing driver. He is the 2021 Formula 4 UAE champion, and most recently raced for Carlin Motorsport in the FIA Formula 3 Championship.
He is the son of Formula One race winner Jarno Trulli.
Caree ...
, racing driver and son of Jarno Trulli
* Jarno Trulli
Jarno Trulli (; born 13 July 1974) is an Italian racing driver. He regularly competed in Formula One from 1997 to 2011, driving for Minardi, Prost, Jordan, Renault, Toyota, Lotus Racing and Team Lotus. His best result in the World Drivers' Cham ...
, former Formula One
Formula One (also known as Formula 1 or F1) is the highest class of international racing for open-wheel single-seater formula racing cars sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA). The World Drivers' Championship, ...
driver
* Marco Verratti
Marco Verratti (; born 5 November 1992) is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for Ligue 1 club Paris Saint-Germain and the Italy national team. He is often considered as one of the best midfielders in the wor ...
, Italian footballer
Twin towns
Pescara is a twin city with:
* Arcachon
Arcachon ( ; ) is a commune in the southwestern French department of Gironde. It is a popular seaside resort on the Atlantic coast southwest of Bordeaux, in the Landes forest. It has a sandy beach and a mild climate said to be favourable for inv ...
, France
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* Miami Beach
Miami Beach is a coastal resort city in Miami-Dade County, Florida. It was incorporated on March 26, 1915. The municipality is located on natural and man-made barrier islands between the Atlantic Ocean and Biscayne Bay, the latter of which sep ...
, United States
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* Lima
Lima ( ; ), originally founded as Ciudad de Los Reyes (City of The Kings) is the capital and the largest city of Peru. It is located in the valleys of the Chillón River, Chillón, Rímac River, Rímac and Lurín Rivers, in the desert zone of t ...
, Peru
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, other_symbol = Great Seal of the State
, other_symbol_type = Seal (emblem), National seal
, national_motto = "Fi ...
* Split
Split(s) or The Split may refer to:
Places
* Split, Croatia, the largest coastal city in Croatia
* Split Island, Canada, an island in the Hudson Bay
* Split Island, Falkland Islands
* Split Island, Fiji, better known as Hạfliua
Arts, enterta ...
, Croatia
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, image_coat = Coat of arms of Croatia.svg
, anthem = "Lijepa naša domovino"("Our Beautiful Homeland")
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* Brescia
Brescia (, locally ; lmo, link=no, label= Lombard, Brèsa ; lat, Brixia; vec, Bressa) is a city and ''comune'' in the region of Lombardy, Northern Italy. It is situated at the foot of the Alps, a few kilometers from the lakes Garda and Iseo. ...
, Italy
* Casale Monferrato
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, Italy
See also
*Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Pescara-Penne
The Archdiocese of Pescara-Penne ( la, Archidioecesis Piscariensis-Pinnensis) is a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical territory on the east coast in central Italy.
It was promoted to the status of metropolitan archbishopric in 1982, and its name was ...
* Museo d'Arte Moderna Vittoria Colonna
* Birthplace of Gabriele D'Annunzio Museum
* Museo Paparella Treccia Devlet
References
External links
Official website
Pescara Airport
Università D'Annunzio
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Coastal towns in Abruzzo
Mediterranean port cities and towns in Italy
Port cities and towns of the Adriatic Sea