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City of Vasto
ITS HISTORY

The first people who lived Vasto was formed, according to legend, by tribes from Dalmatia. The first name, Histon, was given to Vasto from Diomede, who arrived on site to guide Illyrians; Histon, in fact, recalled Mount Histone of Corfu. Around the fifth century BC the site was occupied by Frentani potenziarono that the primary port of Punta Penna. The many entries osche and the recent finds of amphoras in the Gulf of Vasto, testify to the existence of maritime traffic, and the great importance of cities in the territory frentano. After the war social (91-88 BC) Histon became Histonium and was elevated to the dignity of city hall during the Roman Empire and imperial acquired power and prestige. During post-imperial city was not spared by the barbarian invasions which was followed by a dark period in which he lost even his name. A conqueror franc, Aymone, erected on the ruins of Histonium, a fortified village, which he called Guast of Aymone. After the period Angevin, which left deep traces in the lexicon, Vasto was assigned to D'Avalos, of Spanish origin, who moved the pomp of the court Iberian and raised a splendid palace: the Palazzo D'Avalos, the cities and the its beauty, was called "Athens of Abruzzi." The Palazzo D'Avalos was destroyed by the Turks in'500, but immediately rebuilt in Renaissance style, was also home of Vittoria Colonna. Inside today are the Archaeological Museum and Art Gallery. The city retains many high testimonies of its past; Augustee remains of villas and traces of medieval settlements. Close to what was, later, the Church of St. Peter, stood in Roman times, the Capitol, Via Adriatica were discovered the Baths, which are to demonstrate what had abundant water available to vastesi Yesterday, which, in hydraulic works were genuine masters; need only think of two huge tanks still intact located on the southern head of the Loggia Amblingh. In the seventeenth century was the superb Palazzo della Penna overlooking the esplanade homonym away from eyes too indiscreet; four massive ramparts with munitissime garitte had to serve to discourage potential thieves. And 'home of the mysteries; said that the building was put up in one night by one hundred devils. Where is today Punta Penna say that once there was a splendid city, Buca, disappeared swallowed by the mystery. Famous bronze tablet found here bearing in Oscan the names of two censors frentani, with the remains of walls, temples, columns, funerary urns and coins. Among the celebrities in the city Del Vasto was the birthplace (Vasto, together with the Cairo and Piraeus wants, first to itself, the article men), we recall Lucio Valerio Pudente, crowned poet in the Capitol by the Roman Trajan, after have competed, only thirteen years, in 106 AD, in Latin poetry, during the Games Capitoline which took place in Rome; subsequently held the post of curator of annuities public during the reign of Antoninus Pius. Other illustrious son of Vasto was Gabriel Rossetti, "Tirteo of Italy", inspired poet, fruitful, irreducible patriot who, with his verses, infiammò the Risorgimento Neapolitan; was sentenced to death and fled exile in London, where there never ceased up to five years and sing the distant beloved homeland Vastese. Patron of cittò St. Michael, the angel guardian, invoked by vastesi day grami in the mid-seventeenth century when earthquakes and plagues decimavano entire populations. Vast was "city of grace" dear to D'Annunzio and defined by the historian Marchesani: "not least among the most vetuste of Italy, among the most favoured by nature, a city that many reasons would have to be frequently mentioned.

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