Porto San Giorgio

Porto San Giorgio is a comune (town or municipality) in the Province of Fermo, in the Marche region of Italy. It has approximately 16,500 inhabitants and it is located on the coast of the Adriatic Sea. History Already famous at the times of Pliny the Elder as Navale Firmanorum and cited by Strabo and in the Tabula Peutingeriana as Castrum Firmanorum (Citadel of Fermo), it was bound to the development of the port of Fermo, probably situated to the estuary of the Ete river and connected to the city of Fermo by the Pompeiana road. Railways Porto San Giorgio is on the Ancona-Pescara railway line of the Ferrovie dello Stato. Porto San Giorgio was connected to Amandola through a 56-kilometre (35 mi) narrow gauge railway with 950-millimetre (37 in) track, the so-called "Italian gauge", which was disabled in 1956. Landmarks The Chiesa di San Giorgio was completed in 1834. People Silvia Ballestra, writer, was born here in 1969 Twin towns Gessopalena, Italy Biograd na Moru, Croatia Birżebbuġa, Malta References