Alba Adriatica is a town and ''

comune A (; : , ) is an administrative division of Italy, roughly equivalent to a township or municipality. It is the third-level administrative division of Italy, after regions () and provinces (). The can also have the City status in Italy, titl ...

'' with 12,386 residents (2014) in the

province of Teramo The province of Teramo (; Neapolitan language, Abruzzese: ') is a provinces of Italy, province in the Abruzzo region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Teramo. The province has an area of , a population of 313,029 (2012), and is subdivided into ...

in the

Abruzzo Abruzzo (, ; ; , ''Abbrìzze'' or ''Abbrèzze'' ; ), historically also known as Abruzzi, is a Regions of Italy, region of Southern Italy with an area of 10,763 square km (4,156 sq mi) and a population of 1.3 million. It is divided into four ...

region of central eastern

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. It is known as one of the "seven sisters" of the northern Abruzzo

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, i.e. the seven coastal towns in the province of

Teramo Teramo (; ) is a city and ''comune'' in the Italian region of Abruzzo, the capital of the province of Teramo. The city, from Rome, is situated between the highest mountains of the Apennines ( Gran Sasso d'Italia) and the Adriatic coast. Th ...

, the other six being (from north to south) Martinsicuro, Tortoreto, Giulianova, Roseto degli Abruzzi, Pineto and Silvi Marina. It is also nicknamed ''Spiaggia d'argento'' (Silver Beach) because of the high quality standard of its beach, which earned the town the European Blue Flag in years from 2000 to 2013. The ''comune'' of Alba Adriatica was created in 1956 by splitting it off from Tortoreto.

People

* Aldo Zilli, chef * Ivan Palazzese, motorcycle road rider * Eugenio Calvarese, footballer

References

Cities and towns in Abruzzo {{Abruzzo-geo-stub