Grottammare

{{EngvarB|date=June 2025}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2025}} {{Infobox Italian comune | name = Grottammare | official_name = Città di Grottammare | image_skyline = Grottammare 2013 by-RaBoe 038.jpg | imagesize = | image_alt = | image_caption = View from the old town | image_shield = Grottammare-Stemma.svg | shield_alt = | image_map = | map_alt = | map_caption = | pushpin_label_position = | pushpin_map_alt = | coordinates = {{coord|42|59|23|N|13|51|57|E|region:IT_type:city(15206)|display=inline,title}} | coordinates_footnotes = | region = {{RegioneIT|sigla=MAR}} | province = {{ProvinciaIT (short form)|sigla=AP}} (AP) | frazioni = Ischia | mayor_party = | mayor = Alessandro Rocchi (since May 2023) | area_footnotes = | area_total_km2 = 17.66 | population_footnotes = | population_total = 16130 | population_as_of = 31 October 2017 | pop_density_footnotes = | population_demonym = Grottammaresi | elevation_footnotes = | elevation_m = 4 | twin1 = | twin1_country = | saint = [[Saint Paternian]] | day = 10 July | postal_code = 63066 | area_code = 0735 | website = {{official website|http://www.comune.grottammare.ap.it/}} | footnotes = }}

'''Grottammare''' (Teramano {{langx|nap|Le Grottë}}) is a town and ''[[comune]]'' on Italy's [[Adriatic]] coast, in the [[province of Ascoli Piceno]], Marche region. It is one of [[I Borghi più belli d'Italia]] ("The most beautiful villages of Italy").<ref>{{cite web|url=https://borghipiubelliditalia.it/marche/|title=Marche|date=9 January 2017 |access-date=1 August 2023|language=it}}</ref>

The town is crossed by the [[43rd parallel north]]. Economy is mostly based on summer tourism; other sectors include food and vegetables production, mechanics, and commerce.

==Notable people== *[[Pope Sixtus V]] (1521–1590), born here *[[Pericle Fazzini]] (1913–1987), artist, created the bronze sculpture ''La Resurrezione'' at Paul VI Audience Hall in [[Vatican City]]

==Sister towns==

*{{flagicon|ITA}} [[Naples]], Italy *{{flagicon|Cape_Verde}} [[Sal, Cape Verde]] *{{flagicon|Albania}} [[Gjirokastër]], Albania *{{flagicon|Brazil}} [[Itiúba]], Brazil *{{flagicon|ITA}} [[Sant'Agata de' Goti]], Italy

==See also== *[[Riviera delle Palme (Marche)]]

==References== {{reflist}}

==External links== {{commons}} * ''[[Red Pepper (magazine)|Red Pepper]]'', August 2004, [https://web.archive.org/web/20050410173556/http://www.redpepper.org.uk/Aug2004/x-Aug2004-Grottammare.html "Local Democracy Italian style"]

[[Category:Coastal towns in Marche]] [[Category:Borghi più belli d'Italia]]