Calabria, known in antiquity as Bruttium, is a region in Southern Italy.
Rende is a town and comune in the province of Cosenza, Calabria, southern Italy, home to the headquarters of the University of Calabria. It has a population of about 35,000, or more than 60,000 if the university students living there are taken into account. It is divided in two parts: the old town, which is stands on a high hill, and the modern area, on level ground, which is part of the urban area of Cosenza and is the centre of the city's economy.
Cosenza is a city in Calabria, Italy. The city centre has a population of approximately 70,000, while the urban area counts around 250,000 inhabitants. It is the capital of the Province of Cosenza. The demonym of Cosenza in English is Cosentian.
The University of Calabria is a state-run university in Italy. Located in Arcavacata, a hamlet of Rende in the Province of Cosenza, the university was founded in 1972. Among its founders there were Beniamino Andreatta, Giorgio Gagliani, Pietro Bucci and Paolo Sylos Labini. It currently has about 35,000 students, 800 teaching and research staff and about 700 administrative staff.
Rende Calcio 1968 S.r.l. is an Italian football club, based in Rende, Calabria, currently playing in Serie C, the third highest football division in Italy.
Castiglione Cosentino is a town and comune in the province of Cosenza in the Calabria region of southern Italy.
Castrovillari is a town and comune in the province of Cosenza in the Calabria region of southern Italy.
Villapiana is a town and comune in the province of Cosenza in the Calabria region of southern Italy.
San Pietro in Guarano is a town and comune in the province of Cosenza in the Calabria region of southern Italy.
San Lucido is a town and comune in the province of Cosenza in the Calabria region of southern Italy.
San Fili is a town and comune in the province of Cosenza in the Calabria region of southern Italy.
Grimaldi is a town and comune in the province of Cosenza in the Calabria region of southern Italy. Grimaldi is referred to as Grimaldo in historic documents. In the local Calabrian dialect, the town is called Grimàudu or Grimàuru, and the residents Grimaudisi, although the Italian versions are today prevalent.
Paola is a town and comune in the province of Cosenza in the Calabria region of southern Italy.
Monte Santomarco is a railway tunnel in the Calabria region of Italy. The electrified line is 15,333 m long and was opened in 1987 replacing a standard-gauge rack railway line. It is a single track tunnel on the Paola-Cosenza line with a passing loop in the middle, about 800 metres long.
Ferramonti di Tarsia, also known as Ferramonti, was an Italian internment camp used to intern political dissidents and ethnic minorities. It was located in the municipality of Tarsia, near Cosenza, in Calabria. It was the largest of the fifteen internment camps established by Benito Mussolini between June and September 1940. Over 3,800 Jews were imprisoned at the camp.
Policastro Bussentino is an Italian town and hamlet (frazione) of the municipality of Santa Marina in the province of Salerno, Campania region. It is a former bishopric, now titular see, and has a population of 1,625.
Magliocco Dolce is a red Italian wine grape variety that is grown mostly in the Calabria region of southern Italy. In agricultural census counts, plantings of Magliocco Dolce are often grouped with the related, but distinct, red grape variety Magliocco Canino. Throughout history, numerous red southern Italian wine grape varieties have been variously known under the synonyms of "Magliocco" or "Magliocchi", most notably Gaglioppo, but recent DNA analysis has shown those grapes to be unrelated to Magliocco Dolce or Magliocco Canino.
Paola railway station serves the town and comune of Paola, in the Calabria region, southern Italy. Opened in 1895, it forms part of the Battipaglia–Reggio di Calabria railway, and is also a terminus of a secondary line, the Paola–Cosenza railway.
The Salerno–Reggio Calabria railway is the most important north–south railway connection between Sicily, Calabria and the rest of the Italian peninsula. It forms the southern section of Corridor 1 of the European Union's Trans-European high-speed rail network, which connects Berlin and Palermo. Its southern part, between Rosarno and San Lucido is also used as an RFI freight route between the Port of Gioia Tauro and the Adriatic railway.
Arcavacata is an Italian hamlet (frazione) of the municipality of Rende in the province of Cosenza, Calabria. Its population is of 1,831.
