--- title: "Aternum – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Aternum, Italy: Aternum was a Roman town, on the site of Pescara, in Italy. Nearby: Stadio Adriatico, Pescara Cathedral, Imago Museum. Every way there…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/aternum" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/aternum.md" image: "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/20260725_via_angelo_de_thomasis_abbateggio_PD02005.jpg/1920px-20260725_via_angelo_de_thomasis_abbateggio_PD02005.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail" --- Ancient Roman town · Italy # Aternum Aternum was a Roman town, on the site of Pescara, in Italy. ![Aternum](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/20260725_via_angelo_de_thomasis_abbateggio_PD02005.jpg/1920px-20260725_via_angelo_de_thomasis_abbateggio_PD02005.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) Aternum · Paul Danese The place 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. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aternum), CC BY-SA 4.0. What is there ## 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. 1. Stadio 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stadio_Adriatico_%E2%80%93_Giovanni_Cornacchia) 2. Pescara 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pescara_Cathedral) 3. Imago 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imago_Museum) 4. Birthplace 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthplace_of_Gabriele_D%27Annunzio_Museum) 5. Basilio 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilio_Cascella_Civic_Museum) 6. Vittoria 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museo_d%27Arte_Moderna_Vittoria_Colonna) 7. Museo delle Genti d'Abruzzo Museo delle genti d'Abruzzo is an ethnographic Museum in Pescara, Abruzzo. 300 m · museum in Pescara, Italy · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museo_delle_Genti_d%27Abruzzo) 8. Palazzo 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pescara_Town_Hall) 9. Pescara 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pescara_Courthouse) 10. Paparella Treccia Devlet Museum Museo Paparella Treccia Devlet is an art museum in Pescara, Abruzzo. 1.4 km · museum in Pescara, Italy · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museo_Paparella_Treccia_Devlet) Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0. Go there ## 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 → Aternum Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/rome-to-aternum) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Rome&to=Aternum) - Perugia (PG) → Aternum Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/perugia-pg-to-aternum) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Perugia+%28PG%29&to=Aternum) - Napoli → Aternum Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/napoli-to-aternum) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Napoli&to=Aternum) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Aternum) Not yet researched ## 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. What Wikivoyage says about moving around - Get in There are ferries in the summer connecting Pescara with Split and several islands in central Dalmatia including Hvar. - Get in Car ferries are run by Jadrolinija and faster hydrofoils by SNAV . From [Wikivoyage: Pescara](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Pescara), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09. The nearest places where the work is done 1. [Hvar](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/hvar) HR 8 ways of moving, 27 sources 204 km 2. [Korčula](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/korcula) HR 9 ways of moving, 33 sources 245 km 3. [Mljet](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/mljet) HR 9 ways of moving, 28 sources 272 km 4. [Cinque Terre](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/cinque-terre) IT 7 ways of moving, 23 sources 409 km 5. [Zermatt](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/zermatt) CH 8 ways of moving, 26 sources 649 km If you know how people move in Aternum – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Caternum&title=Aternum&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Faternum), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Aternum - [Pescara](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/pescara) city in Abruzzo, Central Italy 600 m - [Sambuceto](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/sambuceto) human settlement in San Giovanni Teatino, Province of Chieti, Abruzzo, Italy 4.6 km [The place page for Aternum](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/aternum) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on Italy](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-IT) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/aternum, for search crawlers and AI assistants. The HTML page is the canonical copy. Mixroutes is made by Lascade LLC, Sharjah Media City, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Index of every page: https://www.mixroutes.com/llms.txt