Our town Catona is
named by the great
Italian poet Dante
Alighieri in his
masterpiece “La Divina
Commedia” :
“ And that horn of
Ausonia that includes
Bari, Gaeta and Catona
where Tronto and Verde
flow into the sea ”
( Paradiso, VIII ,lines
61-62).
In the principal
square , there is a
statue dedicated to
Dante Alighieri
Dante described the kingdom of
Charles Martel as a triangle whose
extreme points consisted of Bari
at the east , Gaeta at the west,
and Catona at the south . At that
time in Catona there was a war
between the Angioins and the
Aragoneses, and "Ausonia“for
Dante was synonymous with Italy.