Pescara (It. Provincia di Pescara) is a province in the Abruzzo region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Pescara. In Italy, the province (in Italian: provincia) is an administrative division of an intermediate level, between municipality (comune) and region (Regione). ... Abruzzo, (also known as Abruzzi, an older obsolete plural denomination) is a region of southern Italy, formerly a part of the Abruzzi e Molise region (with Molise). ... In politics a capital (also called capital city or political capital — although the latter phrase has an alternative meaning based on an alternative meaning of capital) is the principal city or town associated with its government. ... City lights from space. ... Pescara is a city in the central Italian region of Abruzzo, 42°28N 14°12E, on the Adriatic sea; with a population of 121,700 as of the 2003 census. ...
It has an area of 1,225 sq km, and a total population of 295,481 (2001). There are 46 communes in the province (source: Italian institute of statistics (Istat), see this link). 2001: A Space Odyssey. ...
With around 150,000 inhabitants, Pescara is the largest Abruzzese city: dynamic, active, wealthy, it is one of the main commercial and tourist centers along the Adriatic coast.
Pescara is also famous as the birth place of Gabriele D'Annunzio, one of the main Italian poets of the 20th century.
The unified new town in 1927 became the capital of the newly formed province of Pescara, and a renowned seaside resort in the 1930's.
In 1926, Pescara, the part of the city on the south of Pescara river (in the province of Chieti), and Castellamare Adriatico, the part of the city on the north of Pescara river (in the province of Teramo) were unified in a single city, the current Pescara.
Pescara was always part of the Kingdom of Naples, apart from the brief age of the Republic of Naples of 1798-1799.
Pescara is the major city of its Abruzzo region, and is one of the most important economic, commercial, and tourist centers on the Adriatic coast.
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