Pescara!!!

It is an Italian city of 123,088 inhabitants, that is located on the Adriatic Sea.

The marine parade…

Along the river…

Dannunziana Pinewood

Walking into the streets of the centre of Pescara, in the most ancient part of the city, you can arrive in “Via delle

Caserme”, one of the places that keeps most of the history and culture of Pescara. In this street you can visit The “Gabriele d’Annunzio’s birth-place Museum” and the

“Genti d’Abruzzo’s Museum”, two cultural poles of remarkable interest distant only few hundred metres

from each other.

At night, the street changes, filling of young people that crowd the many and various places, such as restaurants, pubs and cafes scattered in Via delle

Caserme and Corso Manthonè.

“Gabriele d'Annunzio’s birth-place Museum ” occupies the first floor of the building where the

poet was born and spent his childhood and it still keeps the original nineteenth-century atmosphere.

The museum is located in the

ruins remained from the

sixteenth-century fortress of

Pescara. Inside it, there are

evidences and testimonies of life

in Abruzzo, from Prehistory to the Industrial

Revolution.

A multipurpose indoor room, which contains up to 500 seats and can be used the whole year around. Within it

operas, concerts, ballets and different plays are performed.

The museum is hosted in the ex cromolitographic

building that Basilio Cascella installed in

1895. After the artist’s donation to the

Municipality of Pescara of the building and the

collection in it, the Museum was founded

and today it shows inside 12 rooms more

than 500 works, mostly created by Basilio,the forefather of the most

important family of artists in Pescara.

“Iorio’s daughter” is a painting made by Francesco Paolo Michetti, another famous artist from

Abruzzo and it was inspired by a famous tragedy written by d’Annunzio.