Grottammare

Infobox CityIT
official_name = Comune di Grottammare
img_coa = Grottammare-Stemma.png img_coa_small =

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image_caption = View from the old town
region = RegioneIT|sigla=MAR
province = ProvinciaIT (short form)|sigla=AP (AP)
mayor = Luigi Merli (since May 2003)
mayor_party =
elevation_footnotes =
elevation_m = 4
area_footnotes =
area_total_km2 = 17.66
population_footnotes =
population_as_of = 08-2007
population_total = 15206
pop_density_footnotes =
population_density_km2 = 861,04
coordinates = coord|42|59|23|N|13|51|57|E|region:IT_type:city(15206)
gentilic = Grottammaresi
telephone = 0735
postalcode = 63013
frazioni = Ischia
saint = Saint Paternian
day = 10 July
mapx = #expr:42 + 59 / 60.0
mapy = #expr:13 + 51 / 60.0
locator_position =
native_name = Grottammare
name = Grottammare
website = http://www.comune.grottammare.ap.it/

Grottammare is a town and commune on Italy's Adriatic coast, in the province of Ascoli Piceno, Marche region. It receives over 500,000 tourists a year.

In 1994 the ruling Christian Democrats were ousted by a coalition known as Participation and Solidarity (PS). It created a system of neighbourhood assemblies as a type of participatory democracy.

Notable residents

Pope Sixtus V was born here.

ister towns

*flagicon|Cape_Verde Sal, Cape Verde, Cape Verde
*flagicon|Albania Gjirokastër, Albania
*flagicon|Brazil Itiúba, Brazil
*flagicon|United_States_of_America Chicago Heights, IL, United States

External links

* "Red Pepper", August 2004, [http://www.redpepper.org.uk/Aug2004/x-Aug2004-Grottammare.html "Local Democracy Italian style"]