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Antonio Sicurezza (1905–1979), was a famous painter, born at Santa Maria Capua Vetere, in Campania. Renato Guttuso (1912–1987), painter. "He was a forceful personality and Italy's leading exponent of Social Realism in the 20th century." [60] Antonio Cardile (1914–1986), was an artist of the Roman School of painting.
Official Abruzzo tourist board website; Map of Abruzzo; In the land of bears and castles, Financial Times, 29 June 2007; Italy as it used to be, The Guardian, 16 April 2005; Life in Abruzzo, a chronicle of Abruzzo life written from a hill village in the Gran Sasso Mountains; The People Of Abruzzo And Their Millennia Of History. Museo delle ...
Lanciano (Italian pronunciation: [lanˈtʃaːno]; Abruzzese: Langiàne [lanˈdʒɑːnə]) is a town and comune in the province of Chieti, part of the Abruzzo region of central Italy. It has 33,944 inhabitants as of 2023. [3] The town is known for the first recorded Catholic Eucharistic Miracle.
Samnite soldiers depicted on a tomb frieze in Nola.From the 4th Century BC. The Samnites (Oscan: Safineis) were an ancient Italic people who lived in Samnium, which is located in modern inland Abruzzo, Molise, and Campania in south-central Italy.
On 9 September 1943, the royal family of the House of Savoy left German-occupied Italy from the port of Ortona. The defensive Gustav Line was established by the Germans at Ortona (extending towards Cassino on the opposite side of Italy). Ortona offered the Allies a supply port on the Adriatic and was fiercely defended by the Germans.
The territory of the Vestini in a 1624 map by Philip Clüver published in Italia Antiqua. Vestini country, looking inland at Gran Sasso from Pescara.. Vestini (Latin: Vestīni [1]) were an Italic tribe who occupied the area of the modern Abruzzo (central Italy), included between the Gran Sasso and the northern bank of the Aterno river.
Pollutri (Abruzzese: Pillùtre, Pillìtre) is a comune and town in the Province of Chieti in the Abruzzo region of Italy. There are many legends regarding the birth of Pollutri, all the fruit of popular imagination. The most famous Lombard refers to a prince who had decided to build a country where he found a lost colt.