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{{Infobox Italian comune
| name                = Ardea
| official_name       = Comune di Ardea
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| image_skyline       = Ardea11.JPG
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| image_caption       = The kirk o St. Peter.
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| coordinates         = {{coord|41|37|N|12|33|E|display=inline}}
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| region              = [[Lazio]]
| province            = [[Province o Roum|Roum]]
| frazioni            = Banditella, Nuova Florida, Castagnetta, Castagnola, Centro Regina, Nuova California, Colle Romito, Lido dei Pini, Marina di Ardea, Rio Verde, Tor San Lorenzo, Tor San Lorenzo Lido, Montagnano.
| mayor_party         = [[The Fowk o Freedom|PdL]]
| mayor               = [[Luca Di Fiori]]
| area_footnotes      =
| area_total_km2      = 50
| population_footnotes =
| population_total    = 40010
| population_as_of    = February 26, 2007
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| population_demonym  = Ardeatini
| elevation_footnotes =
| elevation_m         = 37
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| saint               = [[Saunt Peter]] the Apostle
| day                 = June 29
| postal_code         = 00040
| area_code           = 06
| website             = {{official website|http://www.comune.ardea.rm.it/}}
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'''Ardea''' is a auncient toun an ''[[comune]] ''in the [[province o Roum]], {{convert|35|km|0|abbr=off}} sooth o [[Roum]] an aboot {{convert|4|km|0|abbr=off}} frae the day's [[Mediterranean]] coast.

The economy is maistly based on agricultur, awtho, stairtin frae the 1970s, industry haes haed a increasingly important role.
[[File:Ardea16.JPG|left|200px|thumb|Ceety gate o Ardea]]

==History==
Ardea is ane o the maist auncient touns in wastren Europe, foondit aboot in the 8t century BC wis the caipital o the [[Rutuli]], mentioned in the ''[[Aeneid]]''. 
Efter the Roman conquest, Ardea wis maist aften mentioned in connection wi the [[Via Ardeatina]], ane o the [[Roman road|consular roads]], tae which it gae its name. [[Columella]] awned a ferm thare.

In 509 BC [[Lucius Tarquinius Superbus]], the [[keeng o Roum]] socht unsuccessfully tae tak the toun bi storm, an then commencit a siege o the toun.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.unrv.com/bio/lucius-tarquinius-superbus.php |title=Lucius Tarquinius Superbus |publisher=Unrv.com |date=2007-02-01 |accessdate=2013-03-25}}</ref>  Housomeivver the siege wis interrupted bi the [[:en:Overthrow of the Roman monarchy|revolution]] which resultit in the owerthrow o the king an the establishment o the [[Roman Republic]].  Ane o the leaders o the revolution, [[Lucius Junius Brutus]], came tae the camp of the Roman airmy at Ardea an wan the airmy's support for the revolution.

In 443 BC the [[Volscians]] laid siege tae Ardea. The siege wis suin breuken bi Roman troops unner the leadership o [[Marcus Geganius Macerinus]].

Durin the [[Seicont Punic War]], it wis ane o the few ceeties that refused militar support tae Roum, an, efter the Roman victory, wis deprivit o its autonomy. In the 3rd-2nt centuries BC it decayed till, in the Imperial Age, it wis scarcely populatit at aw. The 1st century agricultural writer [[Columella]] possessed estates thare.<ref name=Millar>{{cite book|last=Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella|title=L. Junius Moderatus Columella of Husbandry, in Twelve Books: and his book, concerning Trees. Translated into English, with illustrations from Pliny, Cato, Varro, Palladius and other ancient and modern authors|year=1745|publisher=A. Millar|location=London|page=130|url= http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=qcNbAAAAMAAJ}}</ref>
[[File:Ardea12.JPG|left|200px|thumb|A view o the auncient ''agger'']]

Efter the faw o the Roman Empire, in the Medieval age, Ardea wis abandoned. It returned tae growthe anerly efter the 9t century AD. Its castle in 1118 hoosit [[Pape Gelasius II]] an wis later contendit amang various feudal barons o the aurie. In 1419 [[Pape Martin V]] assigned it tae his kinsmen, the [[Colonna faimily]], who sauld it in 1564 tae the Cesarini.

In 1816 it became a ''[[frazione]]'' o [[Genzano di Roma|Genzano]]. Stairtin frae 1932, the surroondin aurie wis drained an Ardea began tae flourish again, becomin a ''[[frazione]]'' o [[Pomezia]] stairtin frae its foondation aroond 1948 an a unthirlt municipality in 1970.

==Main sichts==
Remains o the auncient ceety include the auld defensive ''[[Agger (auncient Roum)|agger]]'', datin tae the 7t century BC an later (4t century BC) updatit tae lairger waws. Airchaeological excavations hae brocht tae licht fower temples, o unkent dedication. Pairt o the pavement o a [[basilica]] (c. 100 BC) hae been foond in the aurie o the auncient Forum an aw.
Ither sichts include:
*The [[:it:Chiesa di Santa Marina (Ardea)|Kirk o Santa Marina]], erectit in 1191 bi Cencio Savelli, the futur [[Pape Honorius II]]. The interior, on a single nave, wis oreeginally entirely frescoed.
*[[Romanesque airchitectur|Romanesque]] [[:it:Chiesa di San Pietro Apostolo (Ardea)|Kirk o San Pietro Apostolo]] (12t century), which wis a possession o the monks o [[San Paolo Fuori le Mura]] o Roum. It incorporates a umwhile watchtouer uised tae coonter [[Saracen]] attacks, nou turned intae a bell touer. It haes 15t-century frescoes an a 16t-century firthen crucifix.
*The [[Giardini della Landriana]],<ref>{{cite web |author=il michele |url=http://www.aldobrandini.it/sito/giardi/storia.shtml |title=Stefanina Aldobrandini Ricevimenti |publisher=Aldobrandini.it |date= |accessdate=2013-03-25 |archive-date=2013-03-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130328104947/http://www.aldobrandini.it/sito/giardi/storia.shtml |url-status=dead }}</ref> designed bi [[Russell Page]].
*[[Giacomo Manzù]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.museomanzu.beniculturali.it/index.php?en%2F1%2Fhome |title=Home - Raccolta Manzù |publisher=Museomanzu.beniculturali.it |date= |accessdate=2013-03-25 |archive-date=2013-03-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130306031921/http://www.museomanzu.beniculturali.it/index.php?en%2F1%2Fhome |url-status=dead }}</ref> Museum, hoosin some 400 wirks o the airtist.
*[[Tor San Lorenzo (Ardea)|Tor San Lorenzo]], a touer in the eponymous seaside ''[[frazione]]''. It wis rebuilt in 1570 efter a design bi [[Michelangelo]], in the aurie o a umwhile Palaeo-Christian kirk devotit tae [[St. Lawrence]].
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==Internaitional relations==
{{See also|Leet o twin touns an sister ceeties in Italy}}

===Twin touns — Sister ceeties===
Ardea is [[Twin touns an sister ceeties|twinned]] wi:
*{{flagicon|GRE}} [[Argos]], [[Greece]]
*{{flagicon|GER}} [[Rielasingen-Worblingen]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://en.comuni-italiani.it/12/gemellaggi.html |title=Italy - Lazio: Towns Twinning |publisher=En.comuni-italiani.it |date=1998-04-26 |accessdate=2013-03-25}}</ref> [[Germany]]

==References==
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*[[Livy]],'' [[Ab Urbe Condita]]'' 4.9

==External links==
*http://www.comune.ardea.rm.it/ (offeecial steid)
*{{cite web |url=http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/422843 |title=Places: 422843 (Ardea) |author=Quilici, L., S. Quilici Gigli, R. Talbert, T. Elliott, S. Gillies |accessdate=March 8, 2012<!-- 10:45 am -->|publisher=Pleiades}}

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