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7 unusual facts about Pescara


Bernhardt Line

On the Adriatic front he could advance to Pescara and then use Route 5 (the old Roman Via Valeria) which traversed the country to Rome on the other coast.

As the New Year approached, it became clear that with no prospect of better weather until the spring, Eighth Army did not have the strength to force its way to Pescara.

Castellammare

Castellammare Adriatico, former Italian municipality of Abruzzo region, annexed in the territory of Pescara in 1927

Luca Kleve-Ruud

NOTOC Luca Kleve-Ruud (born 27 April 1978 in Pescara, Italy) is a Norwegian press photographer, based in Oslo.

Moro River Campaign

The campaign was designed as part of an offensive launched by General Harold Alexander with the intention of breaching the German Winter Line defensive system and advancing to Pescara — and eventually Rome.

Pescara Jazz

Pescara Jazz is the name of an international jazz festival that takes place every year in July at Pescara, Italy.

Simona Atzori

Later Simona became associated with the Pescara Dance Festival, and has endowed this event with the Atzori Award, given to dancers and choreographers.


2002 Molise earthquake

It lasted for 60 seconds and could be felt distinctly in the centre of Molise, in the Capitanata, the Province of Chieti, and could be perceived in the Marche, Bari, Benevento, Matera, Brindisi, Rome, Naples, Potenza, Salerno, Taranto and Pescara.

Arrigo Minerbi

Minerbi was the favourite artist of Gabriele D'Annunzio, for whom he produced "Luisa", a portrait of D'Annunzio's mother (as well as the tomb in the Chiesa di San Cetteo at Pescara, now Pescara Cathedral) and the bust of Eleonora Duse: both these portrait busts were exhibited at the Vittoriale degli Italiani of Gardone Riviera.

Ávalos

Alfonso d'Avalos (1502-1546), Italian condottiero and 4th Marquess of Pescara

Brown and Storey Architects

The office’s work has been published and presented in Canada and the U.S., and has been exhibited in many venues including New York, Milan, Venice Biennale VI International Exhibition of Architecture, University of Toronto, UIA Congress in Barcelona, and Fuori Uso in Pescara.

Chieti railway station

The station was opened on 1 March 1873, upon the inauguration of the PescaraPopoli section of the Rome–Sulmona–Pescara railway.

Gastón Brugman

Gastón Brugman Duarte (born 7 September 1992 in Rosario), is a Uruguayan football striker who currently plays for Italian Serie B side Pescara.

Georgios Pitharoulis

Pitharoulis played the 2009 Mediterranean Games for Greece in the Football Competition in Pescara, Italy.

Italian Shepherd

The existence of this breed can be traced back to 1975, when Piero Accettella, of the Little Ranch Kennels, in Cepagatti, in the province of Pescara, in Italy, noticed that, in the surrounding Italian regions of Abruzzo, Umbria, Tuscany, Marche and Northern Lazio, there existed mid-sized dogs with wolf-like features used as livestock herders and known locally as Cane Toccatore.

Jakov Vladović

He was a member of the Croatian national team B, which won the gold medal at the 2009 Mediterranean Games in Pescara.

Juan Fernando Quintero

In mid May 2013, Quintero posted on Twitter 'good bye and thank you' to Pescara, hinting that he was to leave in the Italian side in the summer.

Luca Fanfoni

At a very young age he won the first prize at the International Competition of Stresa, the first prize at the National Competition of Pescara and the first prize at the National Competition of Vittorio Veneto.

Operation Begonia

During World War II, Operation Begonia was the airborne counterpart to the amphibious Operation Jonquil, conducted by British SAS and Eighth Army Airborne between Ancona and Pescara, Italy, from 2-6 October, 1943.

Operation Saxifrage

Despite miserable weather, the team was able to cut the rail line between Ancona and Pescara in several places before being withdrawn by boat on 27 October.

Vittoria Colonna

Betrothed when four years old to Fernando Francesco d'Ávalos, son of the marquis of Pescara, at the insistence of Ferdinand, king of Naples, she received the highest education and gave early proof of a love of letters.


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