Museo civico Basilio Cascella, Pescara

The building, for half a century a center of graphic and artistic production and a meeting place for intellectuals such as D’Annunzio, Pirandello, Grazia Deledda, Ada Negri, Guido Gozzano, Umberto Saba, Vincenzo Bucci, Federigo Tozzi, Goffredo Bellonci, F.T. Marinetti, Giovanni Pascoli, Salvator Gotta and many others, was donated by Basilio Cascella in 1966 to the municipality of Pescara, which in 1975 opened a museum dedicated to the artist there. The collection houses paintings, sculptures, as well as graphic and plastic works, by Basilio himself and the other members of the Cascella family of artists, the sons Tommaso, Michele, and Gioacchino.