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| name = Ardea
| official_name = Comune di Ardea
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| image_skyline = Ardea11.JPG
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| image_caption = The church of St. Peter.
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| coordinates = {{coord|41|37|N|12|33|E|display=inline}}
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| region = [[Lazio]]
| metropolitan_city = [[Metropolitan_City_of_Rome_Capital|Rome]] (RM)
| frazioni = Banditella, Nuova Florida, Castagnetta, Castagnola, Centro Regina, Nuova California, Colle Romito, Lido dei Pini, Marina di Ardea, Rio Verde, Tor San Lorenzo, Tor San Lorenzo Lido, Montagnano.
| mayor_party = [[MovimentoBrothers 5of StelleItaly|Fdl]]
| mayor = MarioMaurizio SavareseCremonini
| area_footnotes =
| area_total_km2 = 50
| population_footnotes =
| population_total = 49663
| population_as_of = 31 December 2017
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| population_demonym = Ardeatini
| elevation_footnotes =
| elevation_m = 37
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| saint = [[St. Peter]] the Apostle
| day = June 29
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| area_code = 06
| website = {{official website|http://www.comune.ardea.rm.it/}}
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'''Ardea''' ({{IPA-it|ˈardea|IPA}}, <small>less correctly</small> {{IPA-it|arˈdɛːa|}}) or ‘’’Arińdea’’’ (reference to a wood smoothing tool/ a jointer) is an ancient town and ''[[comune]] ''(municipality) in the [[Metropolitan City of Rome Capital|Metropolitan City of Rome]], {{convert|35|km|0|abbr=off}} south of [[Rome]] and about {{convert|4|km|0|abbr=off}} from today's [[Mediterranean Sea|Mediterranean]] coast.
 
The economy is mostly based on agriculture, although, starting from the 1970s, industry has played an increasingly important role.
[[File:Ardea16.JPG|left|200px|thumb|City gate.]]
 
==History==
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*The [[Chiesa di Santa Marina (Ardea)|Church of Santa Marina]], erected in 1191 by [[Cencio Savelli]], the future [[Pope Honorius III]]. The interior, on a single nave, was originally entirely frescoed.
*[[Romanesque architecture|Romanesque]] [[Chiesa di San Pietro Apostolo(Ardea)|Church of San Pietro Apostolo]] ([[12th century]]), which was a possession of the monks of [[San Paolo Fuori le Mura]] of Rome. It incorporates a former watchtower used to counter [[Saracen]] attacks, now turned into a bell tower. It has [[15th-century]] frescoes and a [[16th-century]] wooden crucifix.
*The [[Giardini della Landriana]],<ref>{{cite web |author=il michele |url=http://www.aldobrandini.it/sito/giardi/storia.shtml |title=Stefanina Aldobrandini Ricevimenti |publisher=Aldobrandini.it |access-date=2013-03-25 |archive-date=2013-03-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130328104947/http://www.aldobrandini.it/sito/giardi/storia.shtml |url-status=dead }}</ref> designed by [[Russell Page]].
*[[Giacomo Manzù]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.museomanzu.beniculturali.it/index.php?en/1/home |title=Home – Raccolta Manzù |publisher=Museomanzu.beniculturali.it |access-date=2013-03-25 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130306031921/http://www.museomanzu.beniculturali.it/index.php?en%2F1%2Fhome |archive-date=2013-03-06 }}</ref> Museum, housing some 400 works of the artist.
*[[Tor San Lorenzo (Ardea)|Tor San Lorenzo]], a tower in the eponymous seaside ''[[frazione]]''. It was rebuilt in 1570 after a design by [[Michelangelo]],{{Citation needed|date=August 2011}} in the area of a former Palaeo-Christian church devoted to [[St. Lawrence]].
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{{See also|List of twin towns and sister cities in Italy}}
 
Ardea is [[TwinSister towns and sister citiescity|twinned]] with:
*{{flagicon|GRE}} [[Argos, Peloponnese|Argos]], [[Greece]]
*{{flagicon|GER}} [[Rielasingen-Worblingen]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://en.comuni-italiani.it/12/gemellaggi.html |title=Italy – Lazio: Towns Twinning |publisher=En.comuni-italiani.it |date=1998-04-26 |access-date=2013-03-25}}</ref> [[Germany]]
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