Riserva naturale di interesse provinciale Pineta Dannunziana, Regional nature reserve in southern Pescara, Italy

The Pineta Dannunziana is a 53-hectare regional nature reserve in southern Pescara, of which about 35 hectares remain in a natural state. Aleppo pine dominates, with holm oak, myrtle and smilax beneath, plus a small lake whose damp edges carry white poplars, elms and reeds. The former Aurum factory, a horseshoe-shaped building designed by Giovanni Michelucci in 1939, stands within the reserve.

The pine forest originally covered about 3,000 hectares in the 18th century before large-scale logging for timber and construction land reduced its size. This reserve represents a surviving portion of that once-vast forest.

Locals call the reserve Pineta D'Avalos or Parco D'Avalos, after the family that held the marquisate of Pescara under the Bourbons. Within the reserve stands the Teatro monumento Gabriele D'Annunzio, part of a theatre park that also includes the Auditorium Flaiano.

Visitors can explore the park through walking trails of varying difficulty that wind throughout the grounds. The location is easily accessible from central Pescara by public transportation.

Until 2005 a slip road of the SS16 Adriatica ran through the middle of the pine forest; the municipality then built a bypass through the buffer zone and removed most of the old road, replacing it with a narrow footpath that now reunites the reserve's two halves.