Visit Penne

Penne, a charming village in the province of Pescara, is located on a hill at 438 m. of altitude, in the high valley of the Tavo.

The center is full of magnificent monuments and stately homes of the '700. The main access to the city is the Porta San Francesco. The ancient cathedral of Santa Maria degli Angeli and of S. Massimo martyr, the church and the former convent (now the Town Hall) of S. Domenico and the Diocesan Museum of Sacred Art and the Archaeological Museum are also located in the center.

Penne is called the town of bricks because of the abundant use of "exposed" brick in present buildings and in the pavement of the characteristic narrow alleys of the historical part of the town.

Penne was a ducal city and then the capital of the Vestini with the name of "Pinna virens"; its maximum splendor was during the Roman era, acquiring the right of 'civitas' in the year 87, and then in the Middle Ages. It then played a leading role also in the Carbonari uprisings in the early nineteenth century.

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