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Encyclopedia Britannica



PESCARA

This article appears in Volume V21, Page 282 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: PER-PIG
PESCARA , a river of
Italy
 , formed by the confluence of the Gizio and''Aterno, and flowing into the Adriatic at the small town of Pescara. This town occupies the site of the ancient Aternum, the terminus of the Via Claudia Valeria, and up to 1867 a fortress of some importance. The railway from Sulmona follows the Pescara valley and joins the
coast
  line to
Brindisi
  at Pescara. In this valley, 22 M. from the sea, was the site of the ancient Interpromium, a town belonging probably to the Paeligni; and not far off is the very fine Cistercian abbey
church
  of S. Clemente di Casauria, founded by the emperor Louis II. in 871. The present building belongs to the 12th
century
 . The sculptures of the portals, the pulpit, the
Paschal
  candelabrum, &c., and the bronze doors of this period are important. The chronicle of the abbey, of the end of the 12th
century
 , is in the Bibliotheque nationale at Paris.
See V. Hindi, Monumenti degli Abruzzi (Naples, 1889), pp. 405 sqq.; P. L. Calore in Archivio storico dell' ark (Rome, 1891), iv. 9 sqq.


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