Cirò, Calabria

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Cirò
Comune
Comune di Cirò
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Cirò
Location of Cirò in Italy
Coordinates: 39°22′50″N17°03′50″E / 39.38056°N 17.06389°E / 39.38056; 17.06389 Coordinates: 39°22′50″N17°03′50″E / 39.38056°N 17.06389°E / 39.38056; 17.06389
Country Italy
Region Calabria
Province Crotone (KR)
Frazioni L'Attiva, La Cappella, Santa Venere
Government
  Mayor Mario Caruso
Area
  Total 70 km2 (30 sq mi)
Elevation 351 m (1,152 ft)
Population (May, 2011)
  Total 3,209
  Density 46/km2 (120/sq mi)
Demonym(s) Cirotani
Time zone CET (UTC+1)
  Summer (DST) CEST (UTC+2)
Postal code88813
Dialing code 0962
Patron saint San Francesco di Paola & San Nicodemo
Saint day April 2

Cirò is a comune and town with a population of 3614 people in the province of Crotone, in Calabria, Italy.

<i>Comune</i> third-level administrative divisions of the Italian Republic

The comune is a basic administrative division in Italy, roughly equivalent to a township or municipality.

Town settlement that is bigger than a village but smaller than a city

A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages but smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish them vary considerably between different parts of the world.

Province of Crotone Province of Italy

The province of Crotone is a province in the Calabria region of southern Italy. It was formed in 1992 out of a section of the province of Catanzaro. The provincial capital is the city of Crotone. It borders the provinces of Cosenza, Catanzaro, and also the Ionian Sea. It contains the mountain Pizzuta, the National Park of the Sila, Montagnella Park, and the Giglietto Valley. Crotone was founded in 710 BCE. It participated in the Second Punic War against the Roman Republic.

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History

There were Bronze Age settlements in the area and fossils have been found and are preserved for eventual exhibition in a museum to be established. The ancient Greeks had a settlement on the sea coast - rudiments of a shrine to Apollo have been found. The town on the hill had its origins before 1000 AD but it was greatly expanded after the Saracens started raiding the sea coast. Cirò (known earlier as Psicro) became an important regional center with a castle most of which was constructed between the years 1300 and 1500. Today the castle is in a rather bad shape and should be restored. The administration is attempting to obtain funds and authorisation to do so. Until around 1970 the regional court had its seat in Cirò. After the coastal town split off, much of the administrative functions were transferred there.

Economy

Ciro relies on the production of oil, wine, cereals, citruses and intense breeding of cattle.

An oil is any nonpolar chemical substance that is a viscous liquid at ambient temperatures and is both hydrophobic and lipophilic. Oils have a high carbon and hydrogen content and are usually flammable and surface active.

Wine alcoholic drink made from grapes

Wine is an alcoholic drink made from fermented grapes. Yeast consumes the sugar in the grapes and converts it to ethanol, carbon dioxide, and heat. Different varieties of grapes and strains of yeasts produce different styles of wine. These variations result from the complex interactions between the biochemical development of the grape, the reactions involved in fermentation, the terroir, and the production process. Many countries enact legal appellations intended to define styles and qualities of wine. These typically restrict the geographical origin and permitted varieties of grapes, as well as other aspects of wine production. Wines not made from grapes include rice wine and fruit wines such as plum, cherry, pomegranate, currant and elderberry.

Cereal grass of which the fruits are used as grain, or the fruits themselves

A cereal is any grass cultivated for the edible components of its grain, composed of the endosperm, germ, and bran. The term may also refer to the resulting grain itself. Cereal grain crops are grown in greater quantities and provide more food energy worldwide than any other type of crop and are therefore staple crops. Edible grains from other plant families, such as buckwheat (Polygonaceae), quinoa (Amaranthaceae) and chia (Lamiaceae), are referred to as pseudocereals.

The town of Ciro is famous for the production of Calabria's most important wine of the same name. The ancient Greeks started producing this wine under a different name nearly 3000 years ago and it was also offered to victors of the ancient Olympics. [1]

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