The territory of Gabicce Mare was already inhabited in Roman epoch, as it attests the rich material recovered in ceramic manufactured articles.
Gabicce feeds for a long time an amazing archaeological question: Valbruna, the submerged city.
You abandon on the bottom of the sea, unusual rocks, prepared in non casual order, they seem to already testify a human presence in ancient times: perhaps the splendid and mysterious city of which he/she speaks the legend, probably a situated maritime center near the ancient one I bring military and commercial of Vallugola, an inlet of great beauty between the necks of Gabicce Monte and Casteldimezzo.

On the promontory of Gabicce Monte already in 909 it is documented the existence of a community parish harvest around the church of S. Ermete, church that everything it is now found to the entry of the inhabited area.

To that time the summit of the hill was probably strengthened, but it is in a pontifical bead of the year 998 that it appears for the first time the expression "Castellum Ligabitii" from the name of the feudal Ligabitio.

Almost nothing remains of the ancient castle while from the dialect corruption of the name of the vassal it is by now some that the word derives Gabicce.

The country actually follows the alternate historical stories of Pesaro to 1539 when the castle and the attached territory are granted in feud to Orazio Floridi of Fano.

The potter Girolamo Lanfranco is born you the old one, whose ability in the manufacture of maioliche decorated of gold, is worth him in 1569 the favors of the Duke of Urbino.
In the year 1686 the country counts 337 inhabitants in prevalence attested on the hill.

Gabicce is subsequently subjected to the count Ottavio Mamiani, therefore confiscated by the Saint Center to which he/she remains up to 1860.

It will be had to reach the first decades of our century to assist to a progressive change of the landscape: in the underlying lowland, in front of the beach, the premises of an urban development will be set that will change within half century radically the face of the country.

This will slowly happen at first thanks to a certain development of the economy of the fishing, then whirlingly to explode some tourist phenomenon. The two aspects nevertheless you/they will never be separated, contributing so to give entirely an original charm to the country.

Thousand nine hundred: the maritime economy

To the beginnings of thousand nine hundred on the beach turn the wheel of the artisans of cordage; to the feet of the hill I chisel him/it some cutters of stone he/she sends a distant echo.

Fields of wheat and rows of life still cross the landscape, nevertheless to the mouth of the stream Tavollo, border between Brands and Romagna, is verified for a long time, also for the influence of the Catholic neighbor a certain increase of the maritime activity.

A great deal The precarious port structure limits him to palings in wood along the banks of the river.
They find you shelter the fishermen of clams with their modest boats pushed to oars and the most picturesque "paranze" sailboats for the fishing to trailing.

Later, with the amplification of the I bring and the construction of benches in cement is possible the berth of big boats for the commerce with the harbors of the Balkans; it is transported in prevalence it sand-blasts and other building material generally importing lumber for domestic use.

And' of this period the to affirm him of small but flourishing yards for the construction of fishing-boats, thanks also to the increasing diffusion of the sea motor. In 1939 the resident population is of 1790 inhabitants.

And' a phase in which the fishing to the Sardinian dominates the maritime activity: the departure of the late afternoon in a to follow him of boats toward the open sea has the forms and the colors of a show by now lost.

The fished one is sold partly directly on the bench through sale in the auction, partly on its way to the industries of the zone.
Parallelly to evolve himself/herself/themselves of the techniques of fishing and to the influence that the tourist sector goes practicing by now, the number of the employees it sensitively decreases.

Nevertheless he/she anchors the maritime activity today, conducted with efficient and modern criterions, preserve an important role in the economy of the country.