Porto San Giorgio

Infobox CityIT
img_coa = PortoSanGiorgio-Stemma.gif
official_name = Comune di Porto San Giorgio
name=Porto San Giorgio|mapx=43.17|mapy=13.82
region = Marche
province = Ascoli Piceno (AP)
elevation_m = 4
area_total_km2 = 8.58
population_as_of = August 2007
population_total = 16102
population_density_km2 =
timezone = CET, UTC+1
coordinates = coord|43|11|N|13|48|E
frazioni =
telephone = 0734
postalcode = 63017
gentilic = Sangiorgesi
saint = St. George
day = April 23)
mayor =Andrea Agostini
website = [http://www.comune.porto-san-giorgio.ap.it/ www.comune.porto-san-giorgio.ap.it]

Porto San Giorgio is a comune (town or municipality) in the province of Ascoli Piceno, in the Marche region of Italy. It has approximately 16.000 inhabitants and it is located on the coast of the Adriatic Sea.

History

Already famous at the times of Pliny the Elder as "Navale Firmanorum" and cited by Strabo and in the Tabula Peutingeriana as "Castrum Firmanorum" (Citadel of Fermo), it was bound to the development of the port of Fermo, probably situated to the estuary of the Ete vivo river and connected to the city of Fermo by the "Pompeiana" road.

Railways

Porto San Giorgio is on the Ancona-Pescara railway line of the Ferrovie dello Stato.

Porto San Giorgio had its own narrow gauge railway (3 ft 1⅜ in, the so-called "Italian gauge") line to Amandola (56 km), which was disabled in 1956.

Twin towns

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