Patron saint festival
Feast of Saint Euphemia
📅 Every year, on 16 September
On 16 September Alba Adriatica celebrates Saint Euphemia; the town is also home to the Torre della Vibrata.
Alba Adriatica has 11,565 inhabitants on the Teramo coast, and it is a very young town: until 1956 it was Tortoreto Stazione, a quarter of the comune of Tortoreto that had grown up around the stop opened in 1863 on the first Adriatic railway of the Kingdom of Italy. That year a referendum detached it, and the committee that had won the campaign also had to find it a name: it chose Alba, with Adriatica added so as not to be confused with the one in Piedmont.
On the coat of arms there is a sun rising out of the sea, and it means exactly what it looks like: a new community being born on the Adriatic. Of the more distant past little is left: some Neolithic sites over towards Ripoli, the amphorae and the salt collection points that turned up when viale Mazzini was opened in the sixties, and above all the tower on the Vibrata, raised in 1568 by the Spanish viceroy of Naples to watch out for the Saracens. The rest are the eighteenth and nineteenth-century villas of the Ranalli, the Fiore, the De Sanctis.
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Places to see within 25 km
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Villa Pallavicino 📍 Salerano Canavese · 2.8 km The Second Empire villa gazing over the morainic amphitheatre of Ivrea from a hill above Salerano Canavese. Torre di Pramotton 📍 Donnas · 15 km A twelfth-century hexagonal tower at 540 metres, signalling to the Pont-Saint-Martin castle and the fort of Bard. castello di Castellamonte 📍 Castellamonte · 16 km Seven gates in the curtain wall and a fief split into 271 points of jurisdiction. Castello di Suzey 📍 Pont-Saint-Martin · 15 km A ruin above Ivéry: in 1351 the Vallaise held an Ivrea merchant prisoner here for ransom. Bard Fortress 📍 Bard · 19 km Rebuilt in the 19th century, this imposing Savoy fortress is a masterpiece of military engineering in the Aosta Valley. Pont Saint-Martin 📍 Pont-Saint-Martin · 16 km Two thousand years of traffic on a single span: the boldest flat arch left from Roman times.