After working in Cambridge (UK), Washington and Tel Aviv, Giusy Fiucci is now on a cancer research project in the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Usa. While studying in Rome, she met Nobel Prize Rita Levi Montalcini. Giusy often comes back to visit her parents and sister in Francavilla.

Culture can grow between a coffee cup and a cake, thanks to Claudio Ucci, owner of the "Gran Caffé ai Portici", Lanciano, who offered is room for the presentation of a new book by Giuseppe Rosato on anecdotes and stories from the century just gone by.

Excavations will be made under the piazza San Vitale, which will shed light on the history of San Salvo, up to now believed to have risen around a Benedictine monastery in the early Middle Ages. The discovery of the Roman constructions points to the existence of the settlement as possibly a Roman harbor along the river Trigno.

The ancient district of Terravecchia contains the oldest architecture of Ortona: the Aragonese castle and the palazzo Farnese. The castle, in ruin now, is an exceptional specimen of military architecture and for its striking position on a rock overlooking the sea.