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Cupra Marittima Italy

Cupra Marittima is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Ascoli Piceno in the Italian region Marche, located about 70 kilometres (43 mi) southeast of Ancona and about 30 kilometres (19 mi) northeast of Ascoli Piceno. As of 1 January 2008, it had a population of 5,252 and an area of 17.2 square kilometres.Cupra Marittima borders the following municipalities: Grottammare, Massignano, Ripatransone. Places of notable historical-archaeological interest are: the archaeological museum of the territory with the prehistoric, picena and roman sections; on the State Road 16 Adriatica there is the Roman villa with nymphaeum and spa and squeezing environments of the first century AD illustrating fishing activities and seafaring life. And still up to Villa Cellini you go into the verdant hill and if you go to the north you meet the Pieve di San basso, is one of the most noteworthy testimonies of the area, dated IX century AD officially marks the passage from the pagan dimension ( Goddess Cupra ) to the affirmation of the first Christian cult ( San Basso ). Today we can see traces of the apse in Romanesque style with the crypt almost intact and which has for a long time hosted the body of San Basso, patron saint of the city, martyred during the persecutions of the Diocletian empire.

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