Grottammare

Grottammare is a common of the Province of Ascoli Piceno in the Marches in Italy.

Geography

History

Economy

Culture

Commemorative event

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Administration

Hamlets

Ischia.

Communes bordering

Acquaviva Picena, Cupra Marittima, Ripatransone, San Benedetto del Tronto

Personalities

Felice Peretti, Sixth V (Grottammare 1521 - Rome 1590)

Elected official pope in 1585, with died of Gregoire XIII, during his short pontificate Siste V eliminated the armed robbery, which afflicted the nation, rectified the pontifical public purses and completed important work in the town of Rome (one owes him the via Sistina , connecting the place of the Trinity of the Mounts to the Barberini place)

Pericle Fazzini (Grottammare 1913 - Rome 1987)

One of the protagonists of the Italian art of the XXe century, Fazzini is the author of the great sculpture of Resurrection for the room of the Audiences in the Vatican. Twinnings

Photograph gallery

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External bonds

www.grottammare.it

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