7 Sights in Pescara, Italy (with Map and Images)

Ennio Flaiano 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 La Strada (1954), La Dolce Vita (1960), and 8½ (1963).

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The feast of St. Andrew is the traditional feast with which the Pescara navy celebrates its patron saint, St. Andrew the Apostle. The tradition dates back to 1867, when a church dedicated to St. Andrew the Apostle was built in Castellammare Adriatico, in the area of the fishing village, near the port and the river.

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Pescara Cathedral is a Roman Catholic cathedral in the Via D'Annunzio in the city of Pescara. The cathedral, dedicated to Saint Cetteus, patron saint of Pescara, has been the seat of the Archbishop of Pescara-Penne since the creation of the archdiocese in 1982. The present Romanesque Revival building, originally called the Tempio della Conciliazione, was constructed in the 1930s, replacing the medieval church of San Cetteo.

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The Gabriele D'Annunzio Monument Theatre is an open-air theatre in Pescara, Italy. Built in 1963 on the occasion of the centenary of the poet's birth, it is located within the D'Annunziana Pine Forest and has 3,000 outdoor seats and a 500-seat indoor auditorium named after Ennio Flaiano.

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The Basilio Cascella Civic Museum is an Italian pinacotheca based in Pescara in the Porta Nuova district. The museum is located in the former lithographic establishment established at the end of the nineteenth century by the painter Basilio Cascella. The building, for half a century the center of artistic production and meeting place for intellectuals such as Gabriele D'Annunzio, Luigi Pirandello, and Giovanni Pascoli, was donated to the Comune of Pescara in 1966 by the heirs of Cascella.

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The landing at the ship, known simply as Fontana la Nave, is a monumental fountain located in Pescara in Largo Mediterraneo. Built in 1987 by the sculptor Pietro Cascella, the work symbolically represents a galley, an ancient rowing boat, conceived as a re-enactment of the city's seafaring history and the sufferings suffered by the prisoners of the Bourbon fortress, forced to work as oarsmen on Spanish ships in the fourteenth century.

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The Gabriele d'Annunzio Birthplace Museum is located at 116 Corso Manthoné in Pescara and was declared a national monument in 1927. Since December 2014, the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities has managed it through the Polo Museale dell'Abruzzo, which became the Regional Directorate of Museums in December 2019.

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