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| name = Ardea
| official_name = Comune di Ardea
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| image_caption = The church of St. Peter.
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| region = [[Lazio]]
| provincemetropolitan_city = [[Province of RomeMetropolitan_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 = [[The PeopleBrothers of FreedomItaly|PdLFdl]]
| mayor = LucaMaurizio Di FioriCremonini
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| area_total_km2 = 50
| population_footnotes =
| population_total = 4997849663
| population_as_of = 3031 SeptemberDecember 20152017
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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]]: {{IPA|/ar'dɛa/}} or {{IPA|/'ardea/}}) is an ancient town and ''[[comune]] ''in the [[province of Rome]], {{convert|35|km|0|abbr=off}} south of [[Rome]] and about {{convert|4|km|0|abbr=off}} from today's [[Mediterranean]] coast.▼
 
▲'''Ardea''' ([[IPA]]: {{IPA|/ar'dɛa/}} or {{IPA|/'ardea/}}) is an ancient town and ''[[comune]] ''(municipality) in the [[provinceMetropolitan City of Rome Capital]], {{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 had an increasingly important role.▼
[[File:Ardea16.JPG|left|200px|thumb|City gate.]]▼
 
▲The economy is mostly based on agriculture, although, starting from the 1970s, industry has hadplayed an increasingly important role.
==History==▼
▲[[File:Ardea16.JPG|left|200px|thumb|City gate.]]
Ardea is one of the most ancient towns in western Europe, founded about in the 8th century BC was the capital of the [[Rutuli]], mentioned in the ''[[Aeneid]]''.▼
 
▲==History==
After the Roman conquest, Ardea was most often mentioned in connection with the [[Via Ardeatina]], one of the [[Roman road|consular roads]], to which it gave its name. [[Columella]] owned a farm there.▼
▲Ardea is one of the most ancient towns in [[western Europe]], founded about induring the [[8th century BC]]. According to tradition it was the capital of the [[Rutuli]], mentionedand it is described as such in the ''[[Aeneid]]''.
 
In 509 BC [[Lucius Tarquinius Superbus]], the [[king of Rome]], sought unsuccessfully to take the town by storm, and then commenced a siege of the town.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.unrv.com/bio/lucius-tarquinius-superbus.php |title=Lucius Tarquinius Superbus |publisher=Unrv.com |date=2007-02-01 |accessdateaccess-date=2013-03-25}}</ref> However, the siege was interrupted by the [[Overthrow of the Roman monarchy|revolution]] which resulted in the overthrow of the king and the establishment of the [[Roman republic]]. One of the leaders of the revolution, [[Lucius Junius Brutus]], came to the camp of the Roman army at Ardea and won the army's support for the revolution.
 
In 443 BC the [[Volscians]] laid siege to Ardea. The siege was soon broken by Roman troops under the leadership of [[Gegania (gens)|Marcus Geganius Macerinus]].
 
▲After the Roman conquest, Ardea was most often mentioned in connection with the [[Via Ardeatina]], one of the [[Roman road|consular roads]], to which it gave its name. [[Columella]] owned a farm there.
During the [[Second Punic War]], it was one of the few cities that refused military support to Rome, and, after the Roman victory, was deprived of its autonomy. In the 3rd-2nd centuries BC it decayed until, in the Imperial Age, it was scarcely populated at all. The 1st century agricultural writer [[Columella]] possessed estates there.<ref name=Millar>{{cite book|last=Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella|title=L. Junius Moderatus Columella of Husbandry, in Twelve Books: and his book, concerning Trees. Translated into English, with illustrations from Pliny, Cato, Varro, Palladius and other ancient and modern authors|year=1745|publisher=A. Millar|location=London|page=130|url= https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=qcNbAAAAMAAJ}}</ref>▼
 
▲During the [[Second Punic War]], it was one of the few cities that refused military support to Rome, and, after the Roman victory, was deprived of its autonomy. In the [[3rd- century BC|3rd]]–[[2nd century BC|2nd]] centuries BC it decayed until, in the [[Roman Empire|Imperial Age]], it was scarcely populated at all. The [[1st century]] agricultural writer [[Columella]] possessed estates there.<ref name=Millar>{{cite book|last=Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella|title=L. Junius Moderatus Columella of Husbandry, in Twelve Books: and his book, concerning Trees. Translated into English, with illustrations from Pliny, Cato, Varro, Palladius and other ancient and modern authors|year=1745|publisher=A. Millar|location=London|page=130|url= https://books.google.co.ukcom/books?id=qcNbAAAAMAAJ}}</ref>
[[File:Ardea12.JPG|left|200px|thumb|A view of the ancient ''agger'']]
 
After the fall of the [[Western Roman Empire]], Ardea was abandoned. It returned to grow only after the [[9th century]] AD. Its castle in 1118 housed [[Pope Gelasius II]] and was later contended among various feudal barons of the area. In 1419 [[Pope Martin V]] assigned it to his kinsmen, the [[Colonna family]], who sold it in 1564 to the Cesarini.
 
In 1816 it became a ''[[frazione]]'' of [[Genzano di Roma|Genzano]]. Starting from 1932, the surrounding area was drained and Ardea began to flourish again, becoming a ''[[frazione]]'' of [[Pomezia]] starting from its foundation around 1948 and an independent municipality in 1970.
 
==Main sights==
Remains of the ancient city include the old defensive ''[[Agger (ancient Rome)|agger]]'', dating to the [[7th century BC]] and later ([[4th century BC]]) updated to larger walls. Archaeological excavations have brought to light four temples, of unknown dedication. Part of the pavement of a [[basilica]] (c. 100 BC) have also been found in the area of the ancient Forum.
Other sights include:
*The [[Chiesa di Santa Marina (Ardea)|Church of Santa Marina]], erected in 1191 by [[Cencio Savelli]], the future [[Pope Honorius IIIII]]. 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 |accessdatearchive-date=2013-03-2528 |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 |accessdateurl-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130306031921/http://www.museomanzu.beniculturali.it/index.php?en%2F1%2Fhome |archive-date=2013-03-2506 }}</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 |accessdateaccess-date=2013-03-25}}</ref> [[Germany]]
 
==References==
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==External links==
{{commons category|Ardea (Italy)}}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070816160535/http://www.comune.ardea.rm.it/ Official website]
*{{cite web |url=http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/422843 |title=Places: 422843 (Ardea) |author=Quilici, L., |author2=S. Quilici Gigli, |author3=R. Talbert, |author4=T. Elliott, |author5=S. Gillies |accessdateaccess-date=March 8, 2012<!-- 10:45 am -->|publisher=Pleiades}}
 
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