Roggiano Gravina

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Roggiano Gravina
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Roggiano Gravina
Roggiano Gravina (Calabria)
Coordinates: 39°37′N16°9′E / 39.617°N 16.150°E / 39.617; 16.150
Country Italy
Region Calabria
Province Cosenza (CS)
Area
[1]
  Total44 km2 (17 sq mi)
Elevation
260 m (850 ft)
Population
 (2018-01-01) [2]
  Total7,205
  Density160/km2 (420/sq mi)
Time zone UTC+1 (CET)
  Summer (DST) UTC+2 (CEST)
Website Official website
Mosaic, 90-110 AD, from the Villa Larderia (Museum of Sybaris) Mosaico con motivi vegetali, a pelta e geometrici, 90-110 dc ca, dalla villa di larderia a roggiano gravina.jpg
Mosaic, 90-110 AD, from the Villa Larderia (Museum of Sybaris)
Baths, Roman villa Larderia Baths Roman villa Larderia.jpg
Baths, Roman villa Larderia

Roggiano Gravina is a town and comune in the province of Cosenza in the Calabria region of southern Italy.

The Roman villa of Larderia [3] is one of the most important extra-urban residential complexes in Roman Calabria, both in terms of layout and mosaics floors. The site dates from the end of the 3rd century BC until the early Middle Ages. The villa is built on two terraces: the eastern sector, a group of three rooms and the western sector with a large nymphaeum with a semicircular exedra in front of a cross-shaped room. The residential part to the east overlooked a large courtyard probably with a portico. To the west were large baths with a series of rooms with a hypocaust and geometric mosaic floors from the 2nd century AD.

Giovanni Vincenzo Gravina (1664–1718), an Italian man of letters and jurist was born at Roggiano Gravina. [4] Angelo Maria Mazzia (1823–1891), an Italian painter was also born there.

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References

  1. "Superficie di Comuni Province e Regioni italiane al 9 ottobre 2011". Italian National Institute of Statistics. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
  2. "Popolazione Residente al 1° Gennaio 2018". Italian National Institute of Statistics. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
  3. PARCO ARCHEOLOGICO VILLA ROMANA DI LARDERIA DI ROGGIANO GRAVINA https://www.parcoarcheologicodidatticofrancavilla.it/parco-archeologico-villa-romana-di-larderia-di-roggiano-gravina/
  4. "Gravina, Giovanni Vincenzo"  . Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 12 (11th ed.). 1911. pp. 383–384.