Editing Pescara (section)

== A brief introduction ==
Pescara was completely destroyed during the second world war by several heavy bombings carried on by US air force. At the moment there are very few signs of the city past.

The main street of the city is Corso Umberto I, which starts from Piazza Salotto and reaches the coast at Piazza Primo Maggio. Corso Manthonè, the main street of the old town, has been being the centre of the nightlife of the city for many years now. The City Hall and the administration of the province are in Piazza Italia, near by the river. 

The harbour is located in the final part of the river. Beside the southern part of the harbour docks there is a modern marine that is one of the biggest in the Adriatic sea.

Pescara, together with Chieti, is the seat of the “G.d'Annunzio” univeristy: about 17.000 students attend the faculties of Economics, Architecture, Foreign Languages and Literature in city. The university is located in the southern part of town, near by the business district built up in the recent years.

The city shore is 16 km long and it is a sand beach divided in two "riviera": the one in the north side of the river and the one in the southern side. The northern part of the riviera is very lively during summer because many restaurants, bars, gelaterias and disco clubs are located all over its length.

Generally, compared to other Italian towns of the similar size, Pescara is a quite different place: it looks modern and not old but it is also a lively place, both from the point of views of night life and cultural acitivities. In an [http://dweb.repubblica.it/dweb/2005/09/17/attualita/attualita/174gla467174.html article on the newspaper Repubblica] Pescara (together with Salerno) was considered as a model for a new "dolce vita" Italain style.