Ladispoli

Ladispoli
Comune
Comune di Ladispoli
Housing in Ladispoli
Coat of arms
Ladispoli Location of Ladispoli in Italy
Coordinates: 41°57′N 12°05′E / 41.950°N 12.083°E / 41.950; 12.083
Country	Italy
Region	Lazio
Province / Metropolitan city	Rome
Frazioni	Marina di San Nicola, Monteroni
Government
• Mayor	Crescenzio Paliotta (PD)
Area
• Total	25 km2 (10 sq mi)
Elevation	2 m (7 ft)
Population (31 August 2015)
• Total	41,084
• Density	1,600/km2 (4,300/sq mi)
Demonym(s)	Ladispolensi or Ladispolani
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Postal code	00055
Dialing code	06
Patron saint	St. Joseph
Saint day	March 19
Website	Official website

Ladispoli is a town and comune in the Metropolitan City of Rome, Lazio, central Italy. Lies about 35 kilometres (22 mi) west of center of Rome on the Mediterranean Sea.

Ladispoli occupies the area existed the ancient Alsium, the port of the Etruscan city of Cerveteri and later a Roman colony cited by Cicero.

Alsium was destroyed in the 6th century AD, during the Gothic War, by the Ostrogoths led by Totila. Later a castle, named Palo, was built in the area: it was a fief of the Orsini and, from 1693, of the Odescalchi family.

Modern Ladispoli was founded in 1888 by Ladislao Odescalchi, whom its name stems from.

In the late 1970s and until the early 1990s, parts of Ladispoli served as refugee camps for Soviet emigrants seeking political and/or religious asylum in Western countries (mostly United States, Canada and Australia). The experience of Jews from the former USSR staying in Ladispoli in the 1980s was first described in English by Maxim D. Shrayer in his literary memoir "Waiting for America" (2007).

According to ISTAT figures at 31 December 2010 foreign nationals were 7711 people. The nationalities most represented according to their percentage of the total population were: