Ladispoli

Ladispoli is a toun an comune in the province o Roum, Lazio, central Italy. Lees aboot 35 km (22 mi) wast o centre o Roum on the Mediterranean Sea.

Ladispoli
Comune
Comune di Ladispoli
Hoosin in Ladispoli
Coat airms
Ladispoli Location o Ladispoli in Italy
Coordinates: 41°57′N 12°05′E
Kintra	Italy
Region	Lazio
Province	Roum
Frazioni	Marina di San Nicola, Monteroni
Govrenment
• Mayor	Crescenzio Paliotta (PD)
Area
• Total	25 km2 (10 sq mi)
Elevation	2 m (7 ft)
Population  (30 April 2009)
• Total	39,829
• Density	1,600/km2 (4,100/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	00055
Diallin code	06
Patron saunt	St. Joseph
Saunt day	March 19
Website	Offeecial wabsteid

History

Ladispoli occupees the aurie existit the auncient Alsium, the port o the Etruscan ceety o Cerveteri an later a Roman colony citit bi Cicero.

Alsium wis destroyed in the 6t century AD, durin the Gothic War, bi the Ostrogoths led bi Totila. Later a castle, namit Palo, wis biggit in the aurie: it wis a fief o the Orsini an, frae 1693, o the Odescalchi faimily.

Modren Ladispoli wis foondit in 1888 bi Ladislao Odescalchi, whom its name stems frae.

In the late 1970s an till the early 1990s, pairts o Ladispoli servit as refugee camps for Soviet emigrants seekin poleetical an/or releegious asylum in Wastren kintras (maistly Unitit States, Canadae an Australie). The experience o Jews frae the umwhile USSR stayin in Ladispoli in the 1980s wis first describit in Inglis bi Maxim D. Shrayer in his leeterar memoir "Waiting for America" (2007).

Main sichts

• The Etruscan necropolis o Monteroni an Vaccina.
• The Roman Villa o Pompey.
• The Castle of Palo (1132 AD, rebiggit in the 16t century).
• The Castellaccio, a fortifee'd kintra residence.
• The Giardino delle Orchidee Spontanee del Mediterraneo, a botanical garden

Demografie

Ethnic minorities an foreign

Accordin tae ISTAT figures at 31 Dizember 2010 foreign naitionals wur 7711 fowk. The naitionalities maist representit accordin tae their percentage o the total population wur:

• frae Romanie - 4620 (11.26%)
• frae Poland - 826 (2.01%)

Twin ceeties

• Benicarló, Spain
• Heusenstamm, Germany
• Saint-Savin, Fraunce

Freemit airtins

• Offeecial Steid Archived 2005-10-25 at the Wayback Machine (in Italian) (in Inglis) (in French) (in Spaingie) (in German)
• Airport Transfers frae an tae Roum