Aternum
Aternum was a Roman town, on the site of Pescara, in Italy.
Aternum was a Roman town, on the site of Pescara, in Italy. Some historians also refer to Aternum with the name of Ostia Aterni, due to its location at the mouth of the river Aternus. Being connected to Rome through the Via Tiburtina and its extension the Via Valeria, Aternum played a crucial role in connecting the capital to the Eastern provinces of the Empire. Its harbour, largely occupied by commercial and fishing ships, was supposedly also used for military purposes.
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Worth seeing in and around Aternum
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Stadio Adriatico
The Stadio Adriatico – Giovanni Cornacchia is a stadium in Pescara within the central region of Abruzzo in Italy. The venue opened in 1955 and was designed by the Italian architect Luigi Piccinato.
1.7 km · football stadium in Pescara, Italy · Wikipedia - 02Pescara Cathedral
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.
200 m · church in Pescara, Italy · Wikipedia - 03Imago Museum
Imago Museum is a modern and impressionist art museum in Pescara, Italy, inaugurated in 2021. Commissioned by the Pescarabruzzo Foundation, a foundation of banking origin that represents the historical continuation of the Banca Caripe, the museum is located in the premises of the former city headquarters of the Banco di Napoli, a rationalist building with three levels, acquired by the institution in 2013.
1.1 km · art museum in Pescara, Italy · Wikipedia - 04Birthplace of Gabriele D'Annunzio Museum
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.
200 m · museum in Pescara, Italy · Wikipedia - 05Basilio Cascella Civic Museum
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.
600 m · museum in Pescara, Italy · Wikipedia - 06Vittoria Colonna Modern Art Museum
Museo d'Arte Moderna Vittoria Colonna is a modern art museum in Pescara, Abruzzo.
1.4 km · museum in Pescara, Italy · Wikipedia - 07Museo delle Genti d'Abruzzo
Museo delle genti d'Abruzzo is an ethnographic Museum in Pescara, Abruzzo.
300 m · museum in Pescara, Italy · Wikipedia - 08Palazzo di Città
The Pescara Town Hall is a historic building in Pescara, serving as the seat of the city council and the mayor's offices. Constructed in 1935 based on a design by Vincenzo Pilotti, the building is one of the most emblematic examples of Rationalist architecture from the Fascist regime in the city.
600 m · Town hall of Pescara · Wikipedia - 09Pescara Courthouse
The Pescara Courthouse is a judicial complex located on Via Antonio Lo Feudo in Pescara, Italy.
1.5 km · judiciary building in Pescara, Italy · Wikipedia - 10Paparella Treccia Devlet Museum
Museo Paparella Treccia Devlet is an art museum in Pescara, Abruzzo.
1.4 km · museum in Pescara, Italy · Wikipedia
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Getting to Aternum
- Airports
- Abruzzo (PSR), 4 km · Ciampino–G. B. Pastine (CIA), 152 km · Perugia San Francesco d'Assisi – Umbria (PEG), 155 km
- Stations
- Abruzzo Airport, 3.2 km · Pescara railway station, 1 km · Pescara Porta Nuova railway station, 300 m · Port of Pescara, 2.3 km
- Rome → AternumTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Perugia (PG) → AternumTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Napoli → AternumTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
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No local-transport research exists yet for Aternum
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Aternum. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThere are ferries in the summer connecting Pescara with Split and several islands in central Dalmatia including Hvar.
- Get inCar ferries are run by Jadrolinija and faster hydrofoils by SNAV .
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