Grottammare

Grottammare is an Italian town of 16,005 population of the province of Ascoli Piceno inside the Marche area. Grottammare has very historic origins. There are anthropic strains courting back to the Neolithic period. On its territory a Picena necropolis dating back to the 7 or 5 century BC was discovered. Possession in the Middle Ages of the Abbey of Farfa, it turned into given to Fermo in 1214 by way of Aldobrandino d Este. Between the 13th and 16th centuries it became lengthy disputed among Fermo and Ascoli. The cutting edge layout of fortified walls dates back to the 16th century, characterized by means of violent disputes with neighboring communities and pirate assaults.

From the 18th century the enlargement toward the coastal place began, whose city layout, work of the architect of Lombard beginning Pietro Augustoni, is because of the intervention of Pope Pius VI 1779. Of super significance, for national records, changed into the meeting held on 12 October 1860, among Vittorio Emanuele II, housed in Palazzo Laureati, and a delegation of Neapolitan notables who formally presented him the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. 3 years later 1863 Grottammare was linked by way of rail with Ancona and Abruzzo.