Modern city bathed by the Adriatic and crossed by the river of the same name, Pescara was born from the merger in 1927 of two towns (Castellammare Adriatico and Pescara), located on the opposite banks of the river.
Pescara is the capital city of the Province of Pescara, in the Abruzzo region of Italy.
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Located on the Adriatic coast at the mouth of the Aterno-Pescara 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 is situated to the immediate south of the mouth of the river.
Pescara is also served by an important international airport, the Abruzzo Airport, and one of the major touristic ports of Adriatic Sea and Italy, the Port of Pescara.
Pescara is the most populous city in the Abruzzo region, and is one of the top ten economic, commercial, and tourist centers on the Adriatic coast.
Featuring a shoreline 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.
Every July Pescara holds an international jazz festival: Pescara Jazz was the first Italian summer festival dedicated to jazz music. Since 1969, it has been one of the most important jazz festivals in Europe, as reported by the main dedicated international magazines.
Every year (between June and July) the city also holds the Flaiano Prizes, one of Italy’s International Film Festivals.
Pescara was the birthplace of Gabriele D’Annunzio and Ennio Flaiano. Vittoria Colonna was the marchioness of Pescara.
Pescara and Chieti 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.
Visit Pescara
A dynamic and contemporary city, it represents the Abruzzo center of reference for trade and services.
The Riviera, wide and well equipped, with establishments and restaurants on the sea and with a long cycle path, is very popular not only in the summer season.
Sleep in Modern in urban and architectural layout, it has recently been defined the city of the two Bridges
