If you are looking for a European tourist destination, consider a visit to the region of Abruzzo in central Italy. Depending on your interests, this beautiful area could place a perfect holiday. You can see scads of the churches, many Roman ruins, in the winter sports, just enjoying nature and much more. Abruzzi is definitely off the beaten track, despite the fact that it is fairly close to Rome. We begin our tour in the eastern Abruzzi the small town of Sulmona. Then we drive north toChieti and Pescara on the Adriatic Sea to the northwest. Be sure to read the companion article in this series that currently western Abruzzo and the fabulous Gran Sasso National Park.
Sulmona is a city of about twenty-five thousand. You might want to start your tour built on the Cathedral of San Panfilo on the site of a Roman temple. You can stroll from the Cathedral "Main Street", Corso Ovido, named for the great poet Ovid and enjoy the arcades, palaces, churches and shops. TheFifteenth-century Palazzo Annunziata, the Museo Civico (Municipal Museum). Unfortunately, the church of San Francesco della Scarpa was an earthquake had only a Romanesque door destroyed. Across, as you see a beautiful lined fifteenth century Renaissance fountain from an even older water with lots of arches still.
Piazza Garibaldi, the hero of Italian unification movement named. It is the largest square in the city and a beautiful baroque fountain. Each year at EasterThere is a traditional procession of the statue of the Madonna. Summer is the medieval festival Palio horse race style and how the Giostra Cavalleresca known. Enjoy the market days, Wednesday and Saturday.
The city of Chieti, with about 55,000 people is a provincial capital. The Piazza Vittorio Emanuele is the home of the town hall and the Gothic Cathedral of San Giustino, with a baroque interior. Behind the town hall of the Corso Marrucino runs with the Museo Nazionale diAntichita (National Museum of Antiquities), the fine prehistoric and Roman collections. Other museums include the Museum of Art Costantino Barbella, a Biomedical Science Museum, La Civitella Archaeological Museum and the Diocesan Museum Theatiner Museum. There are several Roman buildings and excavations are underway. Of course, you will find some interesting churches, including the thirteenth century church of San Francesco al Corso and the Oratory of the Sacro Monte dei Morti.
Pescarais also a provincial capital, but the population is much larger, about 130,000. Here you will find the house where the famous Italian poet Gabriele D'Annunzio was born. This is not the place to talk about his politics, but D'Annunzio was an important figure in the history of fascist Italy, so I do not plan to visit his birthplace. I would prefer to Ittico Museo (Via Paolucci) go near the Porto Canale and see the skeleton of a sperm whale.
The Palazzo del GovernoHosted the state library. Unlike most Italian cathedrals, the Cathedral of St. Cetteus in the 1930s was built. So if you are old things that you prefer, such as the Museo delle Genti d'Abruzzo (Museum of Abruzzo People). As the coastline of the city for more than twelve miles (twenty kilometers) gives it to do lots of things and eat sea extends. By the way, many of the fish restaurants open all year. The city has quite a night life, named in part because the local university toYou know who. Each year in July the city hosts the Pescara Jazz Festival.
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