Terracina

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Terracina
coat of arms
Terracina (Italy)
Terracina
Country Italy
region Lazio
province Latina  (LT)
Coordinates 41 ° 17 '  N , 13 ° 15'  E Coordinates: 41 ° 17 '0 "  N , 13 ° 15' 0"  E
height 22  m slm
surface 136 km²
Residents 45,418 (Dec 31, 2019)
Population density 334 inhabitants / km²
Post Code 04019
prefix 0773
ISTAT number 059032
Popular name Terracinesi
Patron saint San Cesareo
Website Terracina
View over the city to Monte Circeo
View over the city to Monte Circeo

Terracina is a port city with 45,418 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019) in the Italian province of Latina in the Lazio region on the Tyrrhenian Sea .

geography

Location of Terracina in the province of Latina

Terracina is located 101 km southeast of Rome , 121 km northwest of Naples and 39 km southeast of Latina .

Terracina is located at the point where the Monti Ausoni reach the coast, separating the Pontine plain from the Fondi plain . This bottleneck has been of strategic importance since ancient times. The Via Appia squeezes through it between the steep drop of Monte Sant'Angelo and the sea .

Its districts are Borgo Hermada, La Fiora, Badino and Frasso, although a large part of it lies in the municipality of Sonnino . The municipality extends over a height of −1 to 864 m slm

The community is located in earthquake zone 3 (little risk).

The neighboring municipalities are clockwise from west to east: San Felice Circeo , Sabaudia , Pontinia , Sonnino , Monte San Biagio and Fondi .

history

In the Volscian seaside town of Anxur was 329 BC. The Roman citizen colony Tarracina was created after the Romans had defeated the local Volscians. The residents of Tarracina received Roman citizenship through acceptance into the Latin Confederation . Thus the inhabitants of Tarracina formed "the subordinate association of the Roman state territory".

Located in a key strategic position on annexed land, Tarracina was a Latin colony of privileged class. When a resident of Tarracina moved to Rome, about 100 km away, Roman citizenship was fully revived. Cicero described this form of the Latin colony as "bulwarks of Roman rule" in Italy.

From ancient Anxur / Tarracina testify numerous remains and finds, often in the form of spoils in medieval buildings like the Cathedral are installed. Since 312 BC The Via Appia ran through the city. The most important excavation is the sanctuary of Jupiter Anxur, which lies above the city on the steep rock spur Monte S. Angelo and from which the impressive substructures of the temple terrace have been preserved.

In 591 the synagogue was destroyed. After sharp criticism from Pope Gregory I (Pope 590-604), he ordered it to be rebuilt at a greater distance from the church, with reference to the ostensibly "disturbing chant" ("vox psallentium"). It has not been preserved.

politics

Mayor and City Council

Nicola Procaccini ( PdL ) was elected mayor in May 2011. His center-right alliance also has the majority in the municipal council with 14 out of 24 seats. He won the runoff election against Gianfranco Sciscione from a right-wing citizens' list, which was supported by the regional president Renata Polverini ( PdL ). He replaced his fellow party member Stefano Nardi, who held office from 2001 to 2011.

Twin cities

Sister cities of Terracina are

traffic

The main development of Terracina has been via State Road 7 ( Via Appia ) since ancient times . From here, in the urban area, the SR 148 Via Pontina , which runs parallel to the Via Appia to Rome, and the state road 213 Via Flacca , which runs along the coast to Formia . Via the state road 156 dei Monti Lepini you can reach the A1 Autostrada del Sole motorway in 47 km at the Frosinone exit .

Terracina station is the end of the Terracina – Priverno line , a branch line of the Rome – Formia – Naples line . The connection was discontinued in 2012 after a rock fall, and trains have stopped running since then. Buses run to the Monte San Biagio train station. There is also a direct connection to Rome, with buses going to the Laurentina metro station.

sons and daughters of the town

Web links

Commons : Terracina  - 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. ↑ Saint Lexicon , accessed on December 14, 2011.
  3. ^ Italian civil defense
  4. ^ Klaus Bringmann : Roman history. From the beginnings to late antiquity (= Beck'sche series. 2012 CH Beck Wissen ). 10th revised edition. CH Beck, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-44812-6 , p. 18.
  5. ↑ ibid.
  6. ↑ ibid., P. 19.
  7. ↑ Johannes Heil : Difference, Cohabitation and Conflict - Jews and Christians in the Middle Ages. In: Publication Antisemitism of the German-Israeli Society Nuremberg-Middle Franconia 2015, without ISBN <; there with reference to Ernst Baltrusch , "Gregory the Great and his relationship to Roman law using the example of his policy towards the Jews". In: Historical magazine . 259, 1994, pp. 39-58.
  8. ^ Information from the Ministry of the Interior
  9. ↑ site Terracina - Gemellaggi , accessed on May 21, 2017th
  10. ↑ www.latinatoday.it newspaper news (Italian)
  11. ↑ Józef Powroźniak: Guitar Lexicon. Transl. [From Leksykon gitary ] from d. Polish. by Bernd Haag. Employee at d. exp. u. revised German-language edition: A. Quadt […]. 1979; 4th edition. Verlag Neue Musik, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-7333-0029-7 , p. 81.