Ladispoli

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Ladispoli
coat of arms
Ladispoli (Italy)
Ladispoli
Country Italy
region Lazio
Metropolitan city Rome  (RM)
Coordinates 41 ° 57 '  N , 12 ° 5'  E Coordinates: 41 ° 56 '53 "  N , 12 ° 4' 40"  E
height 2  m slm
surface 25 km²
Residents 41,798 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density 1,672 inhabitants / km²
Post Code 00055
prefix 06
ISTAT number 058116
Popular name Ladispolani
Patron saint San Giuseppe
Website Ladispoli
Promenade
Promenade

Ladispoli is a city with 41,798 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019) in the metropolitan city of Rome in the Italian region of Lazio .

geography

Location of Ladispoli in the province of Rome

location

Ladispoli is 40 km west of Rome and 32 km southeast of Civitavecchia . It extends in the plain at the foot of the Sabatine Mountains along the coast of the Tyrrhenian Sea .

The community is located in earthquake zone 4 (very little endangered).

Districts and neighboring communities

In addition to the core city, which has a modern appearance, the municipality includes the districts of Caerevetus , Cerreto and San Nicola - Monteroni . The Palo , which consists of only a few houses next to the large castle, is located on the site of the ancient Alsium. The seaside resort of Marina di San Nicola was founded on the southern outskirts in the 1960s . The municipality extends over a height of 0 to 50  m slm

Ladispolis neighboring municipalities are Cerveteri and Fiumicino .

traffic

  • Autostrada A12 Italia.svgLadispoli is located with the Cerveteri-Ladispoli exit on the A12 Autostrada Azzurra motorway from Rome to Civitavecchia
  • Strada Statale 1 Italia.svgIt is crossed by the SS 1 Via Aurelia state road.
  • FL5With the Ladispoli-Cerveteri and Palo Laziale train stations , it is on the FL5 regional train route from Roma Termini to Civitavecchia, or the Pisa-Rome train route .

history

In the Etruscan era , where Ladispoli is today, there was the Latin colony Alsium , a port of the Etruscan city of Caere ( Cerveteri ).

During the Republican and especially during the Roman Empire, this place was used as a resort by the nobility . In the 2nd century there was an imperial villa of Antoninus Pius in Alsium , which is mentioned several times in the correspondence of the rhetor M. Cornelius Fronto ; it is probably identical to the extensive ruined villa in Marina di S. Nicola. In the 6th century Alsium was besieged and destroyed by their king Totila during the war of the Eastern Roman emperor Justinianus I against the Ostrogoths . In 1500 a medieval built on the remains of fortifications , the castle Palo . The name probably comes from Palus (' swamp '), as the surrounding area was very swampy.

The castle was a fief of the Orsini family , who due to debts were forced to sell it to the Odescalchi family in 1693 . The new owners in turn sold them to Duke Onofrio del Grillo from Genoa and Marchese Carlo Loffredo from Treviso . Only in 1870 did it return to the ownership of the Odescalchi family, who are still the owners today.

Livio Odescalchi , who had been lord of Palo since 1881, renounced the castle in 1884 and bequeathed it to his second-born son Ladislao, who made it his residence. In the meantime many farmers, fishermen and craftsmen had built huts in their shelter. That is why Ladislao decided in 1880 to set up a consortium with the engineer Vittorio Cantoni to develop the area between the Vaccina and Sanguinara streams and to found the settlement that bears his name.

Population development

politics

Mayor and City Council

Crescenzo Paliotta ( PD ) was elected Mayor in June 2007 and confirmed in 2012. His center-left alliance also has the majority in the municipal council with 9 out of 16 seats.

Mayor of Cerveteri:

  • 1990–1993: Fausto Ruscito, ( DC )
  • 1993–1997: Maurizio Perilli ( MSI )
  • 1997-2007: Gino Giogli, ( DS )
  • 2007– 0000: Crescenzo Paliotta ( PD )

Town twinning

The following cities are twin cities of Ladispoli:

Attractions

Torre Flavia
  • The Castello Orsini-Odescalchi in the suburb of Palo is located directly on the sea. It was acquired by the Odescalchi family in 1693 .
  • The graves in the Monteroni area are two of what were once twelve Etruscan burial mounds from the 7th to 5th centuries BC. BC, which probably belonged to the city of Alsium. The remains of some ancient villas and traces of Roman cisterns can still be found on the site.
  • In the district of Monteroni there is also one of the few fortified post and rest stations, the Castellacio . When the Via Aurelia was rerouted , the service area lost its function and the building was leased and rented out. During the Second World War it provided shelter for displaced families from Ladispoli ; today it is a ruin.
  • The Torre Flavia is a ruined tower by the sea. Formerly 61 towers were built along the coast from Terracina to Porto Santo Stefano to protect against attacks by the Saracens . In the 16th century, the tower was restored under the supervision of Cardinal Flavio Orsini , but it was partially destroyed by a German bomb in World War II. In order to at least preserve the ruins, an artificial stone wall was raised. The wreck of a Roman trading ship lies about twelve meters in front of the Torre.
  • In the area around the Torre Flavia there is a marshland, the "Oasis Torre Flavia", which, like the "Oasis of Palo" , is administered by the WWF . In these areas you will find untouched vegetation, which is ideal habitat for toads , frogs and marsh birds as well as a resting station for migratory birds .
  • The remains of the ancient post and rest station “Statua” between Rome and Civitavecchia can be found on Via Aurelia, which was frequented until the Middle Ages. A small fortress, the Castrum Statua , was built on the remains in the 13th century . In the area there are remains of a medieval bridge, a villa and, in places, large stone blocks of the flooring of Via Aurelia antica .

economy

Ladispoli is an agricultural center. The place is famous for the cultivation of artichokes . The Sagra del Carciofo , the artichoke festival, takes place in the third week of April .

Filmography

The following films were shot in Ladispoli:

  • Fantasia sottomarina (1940), short film by Roberto Rossellini
  • Il ruscello di Ripasottile (1941), short film by Roberto Rossellini
  • The Place and the Time (2002), short film by Giuseppe Cristiano
  • Velocità Massima (2001), film by Daniele Vicari

Personalities

Actress Laura Antonelli lived in this parish from 2009 until her death in 2015.

Web links

Commons : Ladispoli  - album with pictures, 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. ^ Italian civil defense
  3. ↑ Information from the Ministry of the Interior ( Memento of the original from June 21, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on May 23, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / comunali.interno.it
  4. ↑ comune-italia.it - ​​Città gemellate con Ladispoli