Gabicce Mare

Gabicce Mare is an Italian seaside resort with 5829 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) on the Adriatic Riviera in the Province of Pesaro and Urbino in the Marche region. Several of its beaches are regularly awarded with a blue flag. Gabicce Mare is located about 120 km from Bologna, 90 km northwest of Ancona and about 20 km south of Rimini. The river separates Tavollo Gabicce Mare by its neighbor Cattolica while marking the border with the neighboring region of Emilia -Romagna. At an altitude of about 150 meters is located in the foothills Gabicce Monte.

History

The area of Gabicce Monte was inhabited since Roman times - this witness today's pottery.

Already 909 can be found around the Church of Sant'Ermete from the year 775 a settlement. Already at that time the top of the hill was probably fixed, but the name " Castellum Ligabitii " appears only in the year 998 the first time in a papal document. The name derives from the name of a landowner - Ligabitio - from. From the old castle is not as good as left, whereas it is almost certain that the present name from the name of the nobleman - spoken in the local dialect - is derived.

Owning success of the eventful history of Pesaro in 1539, as a fall of the castle and the associated country Orazio Floridi of fan as Lehngabe. Then Gabicce is the grapheme Ottavio Mamiani slammed and then confiscated by the Holy See, to which he belonged until 1860.

In the first decades of our century, the landscape changes continuously: in the lowlands, off the coast, the precursors of urban development are emerging that will change the face of the environment in the next half century rapidly. First slowly developed an economy based on fishing, but then explosively driven by tourism, but without displacing the fishing background completely.

Demographic Trends

Twinning

• Ötigheim ( Germany ), since 1999
• Brussels ( Belgium), since 2003
• Eguisheim (France), since 2007