Grottammare

Grottammare
Country	Italy
region	Brands
province	Ascoli Piceno  (AP)
Coordinates	42 ° 59 '  N , 13 ° 52'  E Coordinates: 42 ° 59 '21 "  N , 13 ° 52' 5"  E
height	4  m slm
surface	17.66 km²
Residents	16,124 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density	913 inhabitants / km²
Post Code	63066
prefix	0735
ISTAT number	044023
Popular name	Grottammaresi
Patron saint	San Paterniano
Website	Grottammare
Grottammare, Piazza Peretti

Grottammare is an Italian municipality with 16,124 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019) in the province of Ascoli Piceno in Marche . The place is about 35 kilometers northeast of Ascoli Piceno on the Adriatic Sea . The beach bears the Blue Flag quality mark .

The municipality is a member of the association I borghi più belli d'Italia (The Most Beautiful Places in Italy).

history

The area was already settled in the Stone Age. In the Middle Ages, the area was under the rule of the Benedictine Abbey of Farfa .

traffic

Both the Strada Statale 16 Adriatica and the Autostrada A14 cross the municipality. Grottammare train station is on the Adriatic railway line from Ancona to Pescara .

Town twinning

• Naples
• Ilha do Sal
• Gjirokastra
• Itiúba
• Sant'Agata de 'Goti

Personalities

• Sixtus V (1521–1590), Pope
• Odoardo Agnelli (1813–1878), Curia Bishop, President of the Pontifical Diplomatic Academy
• Pericle Fazzini (1913–1987), sculptor
• Mario Carotenuto (1915–1995), actor

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.
2. ^ I borghi più belli d'Italia. Borghipiubelliditalia.it, accessed August 9, 2017 (Italian).