Corropoli

Corropoli is an Italian municipality ( comune ) with 4916 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) in the province of Teramo in Abruzzo. The community is located about 21.5 kilometers northwest of Teramo, about 20.5 km west- southwest of Ascoli Piceno and about 8 kilometers east of the Adriatic coast in the Val Vibrata.

History

In the district there is a Ripoli settlement structure from the Neolithic period. After the village of the so-called Ripoli culture is named. The main town Corropoli himself belonged from the third century BC to the Roman Empire. Here, too, was a settlement, which even had some temples. In the Middle Ages the town was under the rule of the Dukes of Acquaviva.