Information about Ancona
The port of Ancona is the first Italian port for international traffic of vehicles and passengers, with more than 1.5 million passengers and 200,000 TRUCKS every year, and one of the first in the Adriatic for goods.
The regional capital, Ancona directly overlooks the sea and has about 100,000 inhabitants. Its geographical position, situated on a promontory of Monte Conero, makes it a port city projected towards the Balkans. Founded by the Greeks, the city of Ancona grew considerably when the emperor Hadrian expanded the small harbour. After becoming Byzantine rule first, and then a free city, was one of Republics.
In 1532 he became part of the Papal States. The soul of the city is definitely the port. Of strategic importance for the traffics always Adriatic port of Ancona is one of the landmarks for the city's economy.

Reaching the port of Igoumenitsa
Igoumenitsa is a town in Greece located on the outskirts of Epirus (peripheral unit of Thesprotia) with 24.130 inhabitants.
Following the administrative reform that abolished the prefectures and merged several municipalities, the area of the municipality is now 428 km² and the population has increased from 14.710 to 24.130 inhabitants.
It is a few kilometers from the Albanian border of Konispol and is surrounded by mountains covered by forests that stretch out towards the sea.
The port of Igoumenitsa is an important crossroads of the sea routes connecting Italy to the Hellenic peninsula, Bulgaria and Turkey, especially since the construction of the Greek highway Egnatia Odos, which for 670 km crosses the Northern Greece joining the Ionian coast with the border between Greece and Turkey.