Reggio of Calabria
See also: Reggio
Reggio of Calabria ( Rìggiu in Calabrian, Greek Righi in of Calabria), called by practice Reggio Calabria or Reggio , is the first Calabrian city by its seniority and its population. It is the chief town of its province and the seat of the District council of Calabria. It is the eighteenth Italian city by its population.
Reggio is in the center of a considerable tourist area from its historical, cultural and balneal importance; it is also an university center, and the heart of a particularly fertile agricultural zone thanks to its moderated climate, with the production of vegetable and citrus fruits, wine, olive oils, among which one finds the production typically local of the Bergamote. This citrus fruits pushes only out of grounds reggine and it thus became one of the symbols of the city.
Geography
Situation
Reggio is located at the point of the boot, on the slopes of the Aspromonte, in central position in the Mediterranean, on Eastern bank of the Détroit of Messine (where one places the meeting between Ulysses and the monsters mythological Charybde and Scylla, described by Homère) from where she enjoys an exceptional panorama on Sicily, on the Etna and on the wind Îles.Topography
The city extends on a territory from 236,02 km ², minimal altitude is of O m (zero meter), the maximum one of 1 803 m, the average altitude of the historic site are of 31 Mr. the historic site extends between the river from Annunziata (in north) and the river from Calopinace (southern) ; the communal territory lies between catona (Northern) and Bocale (Southern).After the earthquake of 1908, the city was rebuilt with new roads, right and larger than those destroyed. (see)
Even if one identifies the ground with his aggressive and persistent reliefs, it is completely crossed by many ways which allow fast connections between all the districts, the peripheral suburbs and the small villages of the outskirts of the city, also served mainly by an effective railway line.
Climate
The climate of Reggio is of clearly Mediterranean type on the Tyrrhenian side, it is on the other hand of subtropical type on the Ionian coast, characterized by a more severe aridity (whereas the Mediterranean one is more rainy). The climate of the reliefs which characterize bestial Aspromonte is on the other hand of type almost appenin.
History
For the ancient period, to see Rhêgion.“Here the Reggio antique, whose origins are lost in the mists of time! Here Reggio of Large Greece. ” Karol Wojtyla, (Reggio Calabria, October 7th, 1984)
Reggio of Calabria east, after Cumes, the oldest Greek colony of Italy of the South. It was indeed founded by the calcides in VIIIe front century J. - C. with for name Rhegion , on installations going up in thousand-year-old IIIe front J. - C., called Pallante (Pallantiòn) before occupied by indigenous populations such as Ashkénazes, Auzones and Œnotres of the king Italos (according to which the peninsula took the name of Œnotrie or Italy).
Reggio was one of the most important cities of the Grande Greece : it held a great politico-economic capacity under the government of Anassile and also exerted a great influence on the city of Zancle (Messine) which faced him. The Polis also had a great cultural fame thanks to its philosophical school Pythagoricienne and its schools of sculpture and poetry from which left the names such as Pythagore de Reggio and Ibique ; it became the allied one of Athens at the time of the war of Archidamos and was then overcome by Syracusains de Denys the Old one in 387 av. J. - C.
Demography
Demographic trends
Population and language
See also: Calabrian, Greek of Calabria
The Calabrian southernmost (and thus the reggino also), like all the languages, evolved/moved with the wire of time, was born from the Greek of the first colonists coming from Chalcis which was spoken until the Byzantine time, was enriched by the Latin not really under the Empire but in the era Médiévale.
Reggio was during millenia the fortress of the Greek culture in Italy, and is pilot, inter alia, the Greek of Calabria spoken in its province and certain districts. The amply diffuse language until a few centuries before in all the Calabria southernmost, full with influences of the old Greek , practically disappeared today, having lost much in favor of the national linguistic unit thus of the Italian
On the basis of did this one develop a type of dialect and one? parlata? very particular, which presents many analogies and similarities with the sicilian language (definite " Calabro-Sicule" language;), which gives to the dialect reggino a " cadence" (accent) similar to the sicilian; the dialect of the city in the urban area ranging between Scilla and Melito presents an absence of the consonants " dures" tipic of the remainder of the Calabria, and proclamation of the linguistic and lexical correspondences with the dialect spoken in Sicily. The reggino and the messinese , two very similar dialects, are different only by some variations in the intonation E per few alternatives in the use of the consonants.
Museums
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national archaeological Musée preserves the memory of the eras prehistoric, Greek and Roman,
Culture
- Theater Francesco Cilea
Economy
Services and trade
The trade is the principal activity of the city, probably because historically Reggio exported local products like the Soie, of the semi-finished products and especially the derivatives of the citrus fruits (seen the exclusiveness in the culture, especially, of the Bergamote.)Enormously of citizens are employed in the services, more particularly in the public services, while the sector commercial is particularly active in the roads of the town center, where the zone of the corso Garibaldi is traditionally the shopping mall of the city, but also in the peripheries where, during the last years, many large-sized shopping malls were built, thus attracting visitors and purchasers coming from other cities, even of other provinces.
Industry and craft industry
Industry is not particularly developed downtown, but where this one is present, it is based on the Small and medium-size companies. Most important work on the extraction of the gasoline of Bergamote, the production of Café, the assembly of railway goods wagons, Liqueur S and foodstuffs, prefabricated, movable, etc which develop especially in the industrial poles of the urban surface, of which:-
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Tourism
Reggio of Calabria is supported by tourism. By its geographical position, it profits from the attraction of the Mediterranean.
Agriculture
The Bergamote is cultivated around Reggio of Calabria. One draws some from many products: oils essential, cosmetic, liquors which profit from a label of origin and are marketed in the whole world. It is the " mark fabrique" south of Calabria. Many European helps make it possible to the local great landowners to replant orchards, thus contributing to the afforestation and the conservation of the grounds, while magnifiant the landscapes.
Transport
Air transports
The Airport of Reggio of Calabria " Tito Minniti" (code AITA: REG.) received the name of Tito Minniti, héro of the Italian military aviation.
Administration
Hamlets
Catona, Gallico, Archi, Gallina, Mosorrofa, Ortì, Pellaro, Croce Valanidi, San Gregorio.
Communes bordering
Bagaladi, Calanna, Campo Calabro, Cardeto, Fiumara, Laganadi, Montebello Ionico, Motta San Giovanni, Roccaforte del Greco, Sant' Alessio in Aspromonte, Santo Stefano in Aspromonte, Villa San Giovanni
Reggini famous
" Reggio is the reign where the fable started which is my life: the workshop of seam of my mother, the shop of Haute couture. It is the place where, small, I started to appreciate Iliade, the Odyssey, Eneide, where I started to breathe the art of Large Grèce."Gianni Versace, February 1992
The people who were born in Reggio or who drew up close connections with the city are numerous, and of all the kinds. The name, the description and the reports/ratios of the famous reggini are useful to include/understand the role of Reggio in good, evil, and in the myth.
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Démosthène
- Ibycos
- Gianni Versace, Santo Versace (his/her brother) and Donatella Versace (his/her sister)
Philosophers pythagoricians
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Piton , which lived at the time of the tyrant syracusain Denys Old the;
- Ipon , shown to be atheistic by Aristote;
- Hyppis , speaker, poet and first historian of the Greek occident, author of a history of the Sicily, of a treaty on the Italic origins and of three books of known as idlers
- Astile , author of moral precepts.
Were also born with Reggio the following pupils of the school from Pythagore:
Aristide ;
See too
- List of the Italian cities of more than 25.000 inhabitants
Simple: Reggio Calabria
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