Cattedrale di San Cetteo

Pescara Cathedral is a Roman Catholic cathedral inside the Via D'Annunzio inside the city of Pescara. The cathedral, dedicated to Saint Cetteus, customer saint of Pescara, has been the seat of the Archbishop of Pescara-Penne since the advent of the archdiocese in 1982. The gift Romanesque Revival constructing, in the beginning known as the Tempio della Conciliazione, changed into built inside the 1930s, changing the medieval church of San Cetteo. The construction of the existing church became connected with the wave of intensive constructing hobby that followed the creation of the city and province of Pescara in 1927.

The medieval church of St. Cetteus. The production of the new church become vigorously promoted by using the author Gabriele D'Annunzio, who have been baptised inside the demolished church, and who changed into a generous donor to the project. D'Annunzio, one in all whose important worries changed into to construct a suitable tomb for his mom, commissioned the architect Cesare Bazzani. Work lasted from 1933 to 1938 or 1939. The facade needed to be reconstructed after World War II because of war damages.