Atri, Abruzzo
Atri ( in ancient Hadria or Hatria, even Adria, Atria ) is a city in the Italian province of Teramo in the Abruzzo region, about 10 km from the coast of the Adriatic Sea. 11,025 inhabitants live there. The town is a member of the Comunità Montana del Vomano, Fino e Piomba.
History
In ancient Hadria belonged to Picenum. The first residents of the city could Illyrians, but also Etruscan (as daughter founding of the colony on the Adriatic Pomündung? ) Have been. The oldest archaeological evidence ( necropolis ) date from the 6th century BC From about 290 BC was Hadra Roman colony with Latin rights and minted its own coins. After the Social War it was BC reconstituted as a municipium in the 1st century. From Hadria the family of the Roman Emperor Hadrian, under which it was named Colonia Aelia Hadria came. Some remains of the Roman city have been preserved under the modern, especially two cisterns.
In the Middle Ages a 1305 insider Cathedral was built in Atri. For a long time it belonged to the royal family Acquaviva before 1757 came to the Kingdom of Naples.
Attractions
Atri is one of the most beautiful cities of Abruzzo. It has a lot of old buildings. The entire downtown area is built on Roman ruins.
Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta
The current cathedral has several predecessors. It started in the 2nd century with a thermal facility, which was used in medieval times as a church. At that time the building was still fünfschiffig. In the middle of the 12th century there was a Romanesque bridge subsequently, also fünfschiffig. 1268 the still -standing Campanile was built with a height of 55 meters. The whole building was completed at the beginning of the 14th century, this time with three aisles. Art-historically important is the cycle of frescoes by Andrea de Litio from the years 1480 to 1481. Particularly well preserved are two scene from the life of Mary in the choir.
Besides that, there Gothic remains of frescoes from the late 13th century, with the theme " distinguish the living from the dead - three noble youths encounter two skeletons who have just left their graves ."
On the south side of the church are three portals: the average was made in 1288 by Raimondo di Poggio, left in 1302 also by him, the right in 1305 by Rainaldo d' Atri, who shortly thereafter closed the main entrance.
Specialty
In the surroundings of the village vines of Montepulciano are grown for the DOC wine Montepulciano d'Abruzzo.
Sons and daughters
- Claudio Acquaviva (1543 - 1615), fifth General of the Jesuit Order
- Rodolfo Acquaviva (1550 - 1583) Blessed of the Catholic Church; Jesuit and martyr in India, nephew of Claudio Acquaviva.
- Giulio Falcone ( born 1974 ), football player
- Pasquale di Sabatino (* 1988), Italian racing driver
Freeman
- Jules Mikhael Al- Jamil, the Syro- Catholic Archbishop Curia