20 Facts About Chieti

Chieti is a city and comune in Central Italy, 200 kilometres east by northeast of Rome.

Chieti recovered some political and economic importance under the Norman rule of Southern Italy, a role it kept under the Hohenstaufen, Angevine and Jimenez dynasty rulers.

Chieti remained loyal to Manfred, who stayed in the town at Christmas in 1255, and Conradin from the Hohenstaufen dynasty.

Chieti divided the region into Abruzzo Citra and Abruzzo Ultra and nominated Chieti capital of Abruzzo Citra.

In 1571, Chieti participated to the Battle of Lepanto against the Ottoman Empire.

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In 1806 Chieti was turned into a fortress by Napoleon's France, to which the population was generally hostile, even if new administrative structures were created during that occupation.

Chieti gave many combatants during World War I, with 350 people who died in war.

Chieti is situated about 10 kilometers away from the Adriatic Sea, and with the Majella and Gran Sasso mountains in the background.

Chieti Alta, reaches more than 300 meters in elevation on the sea level and includes the old town, with its various historic remains.

Corso Marrucino, the main street of Chieti's center, follows in its path part of the shape of Chieti's hill and is characterized by many buildings of different periods, which sometimes present porches for pedestrians.

Cathedral dedicated to Saint Justin of Chieti was probably founded in the 8th century and, according to tradition, was re-built by bishop Teodorico I in 840, after the sack by Pepin of Italy.

Close to the cathedral there is the Baroque oratory of the Mount of the Dead Brotherhood, the oldest catholic fraternity of Chieti that was officially acknowledged by Pope Innocent X in 1648.

Adjacent to it there were another much older church with a hospital, which was later transformed in a palace, and an access door to Chieti, which was partly included in the church and trasformed in a chapel.

At the beginning of the 19-th century, Chieti needed to have a larger and more modern theater to host the increased number of spectators, and the intense drama and opera production of that period.

So, because of the inadequacy of the former theater, Chieti's administration decided to demolish the Sant'Ignazio Church and build a new theater, which was named "Saint Ferdinand" as an homage to Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies.

Territory of Chieti was the seat of Teate, a Roman town which was founded in an area inhabited since Prehistory and flourished in the first century BC, becoming a municipium.

Chieti is a culture and administration-oriented town, with the tourism being a consistent sector: it hosts the seat of the homonymous province, a tribunal, a television station, hospitals, sport venues and different hotels.

Public transport bus service of Chieti is provided by companies Societa Unica Abruzzese di Trasporto and La Panoramica, which manages the Chieti trolleybus system.

Territory between Pescara and Chieti is crossed by two motorways, the Autostrada A14 Bologna-Taranto and the Autostrada A25 Roma-Pescara.

Chieti is about 12 kilometers from the Abruzzo Airport and 17 kilometers from the Port of Pescara.