Martinsicuro

Martinsicuro is a town and comune in province of Teramo, Abruzzo, principal Italy. It is placed at the proper of the mouth of Tronto River. Remains of a Bronze Age settlement were located inside the communal territory, on a hill overlooking the Tronto river. At the river's mouth existed Truentum, remembered by Roman author Pliny the Elder as part of the Roman place of Picenum, and attributed to the Liburni tribe. It changed into noted throughout the Roman civil wars as one of the centers occupied with the aid of Julius Caesar.

It is cited through Strabone, Mela and Sillo Italico, additionally mentioned within the "Antonini Itinerary" and within the "Peutingeriana Tabula". The territories alongside of his river were divided under the reform of emperor August. After the Roman conquest inside the third century BC it have become a municipium and later was reached by means of the Via Salaria. Castrum Truentinum turned into conquered by way of the Lombards within the wake of the autumn of Fermo in 580, but inside the next centuries most of the population moved to other centres inside the mainland. In the 16th century the Spaniards built here two watchtowers, round which a small borough grew.