Discover Pescara: Aurum, museums and pine landscape

Pescara can be explored through its culture, pine landscape and the Ciclovia Dannunziana. The Aurum is a former distillery and is now a multifunctional cultural centre in the Pineta dannunziana in Pescara. For your travel planning, this creates a place where the industrial past and contemporary culture belong together, while museums and nature provide further focal points.

Cultural venues with different focuses

The Piazzale Michelucci at the Aurum hosts summer events, exhibitions, evening cinema, concerts and theatre performances. The range therefore extends from exhibitions to evening stage and film formats. The Piazzale Michelucci takes on a seasonal focus through the summer events; alongside these, there are exhibitions, evening cinema, concerts and theatre performances. If you would like to get to know Pescara through a variety of cultural forms of expression, the Aurum offers a particularly diverse point of reference.

The Museo delle Genti d’Abruzzo is divided into 16 large exhibition rooms. It traces the history of people in Abruzzo from their first appearance as Palaeolithic hunters. The museum uses multimedia tools and educational workshops for its presentation. This combines the region’s long human history with different forms of interpretation, without restricting you to a single type of exhibition.

The Museo Casa Natale di Gabriele d’Annunzio is located on the main street of the ancient city of Pescara and in the immediate vicinity of Pescara. The Museo Civico Basilio Cascella preserves more than 600 works by the Cascella family. These works were created between the 19th and 20th centuries and provide another way to engage with art and regional cultural history. The ancient city of Pescara provides the geographical context for the Museo Casa Natale di Gabriele d’Annunzio, while the Cascella family provides the context for the collection of works in the Museo Civico Basilio Cascella.

Pine landscape and peaceful paths

The Riserva naturale Pineta dannunziana covers 56 hectares, of which 35 hectares remain in a natural state. Walks and picnics are possible among the pine trees. The pines shape the natural character of the stay. This makes it possible, especially when planning individual days, to alternate between museum visits, event formats and time spent in nature.

Cycling route through Pescara

The Ciclovia Dannunziana is 2.405 kilometres long and connects Pescara’s administrative centre with the southern waterfront promenade. This specific distance helps you place the cycling route within your personal travel plans. For cyclists, the length is a planning factor in its own right; the two endpoints give the route in Pescara a clear starting point and destination. Together with the Pineta and the cultural venues, it presents Pescara as a destination where different interests can coexist: history and art, events, walks and orientation along an urban route.

Choose accommodation according to your interests

Those interested in culture place the Aurum and museums at the centre of their plans, while the Riserva naturale Pineta dannunziana offers walks and picnics among the pine trees.

More destinations for your travel planning

Sant'eufemia A Maiella, Cappelle Sul Tavo, Cepagatti, Pietranico, Citta' Sant'angelo, Villa Celiera, Roccamorice and Nocciano

For the overview of the wider area: Pescara.