The port of Ancona

The port of Ancona is the first Italian port for international vehicles and passenger traffic, with more than 1.5 million passengers and 200,000 trucks each year, and one of the Adriatic for goods; for the fisheries, the Ancona fish markets is at second place in the Adriatic and at the sixth place nationally. For gross tons, the fishing port of Ancona, with TSL 4566, is in third place in Italy.
The Dorians, who in 387 BC founded the city of Ancona, they stopped in this place for the possibility that the natural harbor offered. The coast in fact forms an elbow, hence the name Ancona (Ankon, in Greek language elbow), which provides a natural shelter from the sea. But already in the third century BC the bay was used by the Piceni for sea trade with the Greeks.
In Roman times the port was greatly expanded, especially by the Emperor Trajan; in honor of the senate and the Roman people they had built in the port area a triumphal arch.
The Saracens during their looting the city occurred in the ninth century destroyed the harbor. From the XI century in the period of the free and the Maritime Republics it was rebuilt and fortified considerably.
Between the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries Ancona and Ragusa, allied to each other, they were among the most important ports of the Adriatic, second only to Venice. In later centuries, the discovery of America and switching traffic from the Mediterranean, the port underwent a drastic decline until Clement XII granted the free port and financed the construction of the hospital.
With the arrival of the two world wars Ancona and the port area were seriously damaged by bombing. In the following was decided the reconstruction.
Today the port has achieved first place in Italy for the number of loaded cars and the number of passengers (especially for those who use the ferries between Italy and Eastern European countries); for goods in container it is in the top six of the Adriatic, including non-Italian and for Fisheries is one of the first ports of Italy.

Since more than a century Ancona is the see of one of the major Italian Nautical College.

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