San Benedetto Del Tronto

The territory of the city has given back archaeological testimonies that go back until the preistoria, the history has assigned in the following centuries a meaningful role much, place com' was to the borders between two states in perennial conflict (that one of Ascoli and that one of Detention) on limiting of the borders between lands of the Pope and those of the Reign of Naples.
It says the legend that in III sec. d. the C. the body of Saint Benedict, martirizzato in the roman city of Cupra arrived from the sea and the fishermen of the zone erected it a tempietto around which rose a village that the first documents since remember the year 998.Nel the 1146 village belonged to the bishop of Detention that gave it in feudo to coming from Berardo and Attone Gualtieri from noble Neapolitan family.
Had from the Turks in 1478, than for reached they carried you the plague, resources once again in 1491, if of it were then calm for centuries under the Papal dominion finally in 1860 entered in the Reign Of Italy with all the Marches.