17 Facts About Pescara

Pescara is the capital city of the Province of Pescara, in the Abruzzo region of Italy.

Corso Manthone, the course of the old Pescara, has, for many years, been the center of the nightlife of the city.

Pescara is 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 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.

Pescara has a borderline Mediterranean climate and humid subtropical climate with hot summers and cool winters.

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Pescara is a coastal city, but its climate is influenced by the surrounding mountains .

Under northeasterly winds Pescara suffers precipitation which is generally weak, but can be much more intense if accompanied by a depression.

Pescara's 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.

Several seignors ruled over Pescara afterwards, including Rainaldo Orsini, Louis of Savoy and Francesco del Borgo, the vicar of king Ladislaus of Naples, who had the fortress and the tower built.

In 1800 Pescara fell to French troops, becoming an important military stronghold of Joseph Bonaparte's reign.

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.

Pescara was the birthplace of Gabriele D'Annunzio and Ennio Flaiano.

Pescara hosted the 2009 Mediterranean Games, having defeated Rijeka, Croatia and Patras, Greece for the privilege.

Between 1924 and 1961, Pescara hosted the Coppa Acerbo automobile race, which in 1957 formed the penultimate round of the World Championship of Drivers.

Pescara is served from an international airport called Abruzzo Airport that connects the entire region with many Italian and European destinations like Barcelona-Girona, Brussels-Charleroi, Frankfurt-Hahn, Krakow, London-Stansted, Paris-Beauvais, Milan-Bergamo, Copenhagen, Weeze, Milan Linate, Tirana, Bucarest, Palermo, Catania and Olbia.

Pescara is served by the Port of Pescara for fishing, yachting, cargo docking and commercial passenger services.