Ladispoli
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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.
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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).[1]
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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
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
Citations
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