REGGIO CALABRIA
Reggio Calabria is situated at the foot of the far south of Italy, overlooking the Messina Strait. City of ancient history, once a center of great importance in Ancient Greece with the name of Rhegion. Over time, suffered frequent foreign invasions (Angevin, Aragonese, Bourbons) and resources from disastrous earthquakes (1908) .-
Felici environmental conditions allow to cultivate the fruiting bergamot only here exclusively. From Deriving the basic essence of bergamot industry profumiera.Da see:
THE CATHEDRAL
The first realization that dates back more than five centuries ago, and after several restorations and repairs, His last rebuilt after the earthquake of 1908, was built in 1928. F. Jerace whole host of sculptures and paintings of the 1600 Sicilian authors.
THE SANCTUARY OF SAN ANTONIO
moderate Gothic building with a facade of three naves and rose.
BASILICA AER
Also known as the Sanctuary of Maria SS. Consolazione.La the date of the sanctuary is uncertain, perhaps back to 1532. The Church
The feast is celebrated on the second Saturday of September is deeply felt by the population. A large procession winds from the Hermitage to the Duomo with the
CHURCH OF GOOD
It looks like a building within a very valuable with taste Orientalizing pavimentazione.All 'you can admire:
- drums bare columns, marble greek ;
- the marble inscriptions evoking the origin and development of the Congregation of the noble Ottimati of Reggio;
- The Anninciazione of the Virgin Mary by A. Ciampelli (1597);
- The great twentieth-century wooden crucifix.
CASTLE ARAGONESE
Del Castello Aragonese are only two towers and the curtain between them. The latest modifications were ordered by Ferdinand of Aragon in 1458. Unfortunately, during the city's reconstruction after the earthquake of 1908, much of the fortress was demolished.
The origins of the fort are very remote and unknown. Certainly it is likely that already existed in the fourth and fifth century AD Until the year 1970 the Centre hosted the sec.XX geofico the city.
OF THE FORT Pentimele
rises on the homonymous hill. Dominated the town in the middle of the nineteenth century. It was rebuilt and adapted after the riots of 1847 to put a stop to the sympathies of liberal and revolutionary patriots Reggina.
MUSEUM
The National Museum of Magna Grecia is rich in relics that testify to the greatness of Reggio and the centers of Calabresi Megale Hellas.
Founded in 1882, is one of the most important Italian archaeological museums, collects material from the archaeological excavations of the Greek colonies in Calabria and offers the visitor a complete overview the early history of Calabria, from Prehistory to Magna Graecia. Among the most visited section is dedicated to underwater archeology, where they hosted the extraordinary statue of the Bronze Statues, rare examples of Greek bronze sculpture, dating from the fifth century. BC and discovered by accident in 1972. The section is enhanced by exposure of the wreck of a ship wrecked off the coast of Porticello between the fifth and fourth centuries. BC, still equipped with onboard equipment and cargo of pottery, which was found a bronze head of fine workmanship, called the Philosopher
THE WATERFRONT
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