Chieti

Chieti
Country	Italy
region	Abruzzo
province	Chieti  (CH)
Coordinates	42 ° 21 '  N , 14 ° 10'  E Coordinates: 42 ° 21 '0 "  N , 14 ° 10' 0"  E
height	330  m slm
surface	58 km²
Residents	50,285 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density	867 inhabitants / km²
Factions	Brecciarola
Post Code	66100 (zona alta), 66013 (zona scalo)
prefix	0871
ISTAT number	069022
Popular name	Teatini, Chietini
Patron saint	San Giustino
Website	Chieti
Panorama of Chieti

Chieti (old: Teati, Teate) is a university town in the region of Abruzzo in Italy with 50,285 inhabitants. The city is the capital of the Chieti Province and the seat of the Archdiocese of Chieti-Vasto .

geography

Chieti is located 15 kilometers from the Adriatic Sea near the Pescara River on a narrow mountain ridge that stretches along the river.

It essentially consists of the old town Chieti Alta, which is located on the mountain above the Pescara valley, and the modern industrial settlement Chieti Scalo in the valley. Chieti is connected to the port city of Pescara on the Adriatic Sea via a motorway.

history

After Italy entered the war in June 1940, the fascist regime set up an internment camp (campo di concentramento) in Chieti . It was located in a former kindergarten in the center of the village. The inmates were either "enemy aliens" or "foreign Jews". The camp was closed on November 10, 1940.

Attractions

The town center of Chieti Alta has been able to keep its old appearance. The outstanding building here is the cathedral, which originally dates from the 13th century, but has been converted to Baroque style inside . The boulevard Corso Marrucino is also important, as is the Museo Archeologico , in which, among other things, a 2.10 m high warrior statue from pre-Roman times, the warrior of Capestrano , can be seen.

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  Porta Pescara

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  Campanile of the cathedral

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  The cathedral from the inside

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  San Domenico Church

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  Santissima Trinità church

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  Roman temple

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  Archaeological Museum

Chieti is also home to the headquarters of the University of Chieti and Pescara, the Università Gabriele D'Annunzio , with a modern university hospital .

Sports

Some games of the 2007 European Women's Basketball Championship were held in Chieti.

The local soccer club Calcio Chieti plays in the fifth-rate Serie D in the 2009/10 season . The club's home games are played in the Stadio Guido Angelini .

economy

The Sixty Group SpA, a fashion company, known by labels such as energy, Miss Sixty and Killah, here has its headquarters.

Personalities

• Paul IV / Gian Pietro Carafa (1476–1559), Bishop of Chieti (1505–1518), co-founder of the Theatin order (around 1524)
• Giovanni Battista Spinelli (1613–1658), painter
• Ferdinando Galiani (1728–1787), diplomat, economist and writer
• Giuseppe Liberali (first half of the 19th century), conductor and composer
• Augusto Pierantoni (1840–1911), lawyer and politician
• Severino Di Giovanni (1901-1931), anarchist
• Francisco Amicarelli (1905–1981), Argentine pianist and music teacher
• Sergio Marchionne (1952-2018), manager
• Monica Bacelli (* 1963), opera singer
• Gianluca Capitano (* 1971), track cyclist and two-time world champion
• Lars Kraume (* 1973), German director, producer and screenwriter
• Alessia Barela (* 1974), film actress
• Giacomo Zappacosta (* 1988), football player
• Giulio Ciccone (* 1994), racing cyclist

Web links

Commons : Chieti  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Entry in the Catholic Encyclopedia , Robert Appleton Company, New York 1913.
• Information about the city of Chieti and the region ( Memento of April 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (Abruzzen Online 2008)
• Otto Lehmann-Brockhaus : Abruzzo and Molise . Art and history. Ed .: Bibliotheca Hertziana . 1983 (The standard work in digital new edition; with extensive place index).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.
2. ↑ Carlo Spartaco Capogreco, I Campi del duce. L'internamento civile nell'Italia fascista (1940-1943) , Torino 2004 (Einaudi), p. 209