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Stilo
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Castle Of Stilo
The Castle of Stilo or Norman Castle is a castle of the Norman period built at Stilo, Calabria in southern Italy by Roger I of Sicily upon Monte Consolino in the 11th century. History The first reference to the Norman castle at Stilo is from May 7, 1093 in a concession act of the Great Count to Saint Bruno: "elegerunt itaque quondam solitudinis locum inter locum qui dicitur Arena et oppidum quod appelatur Stilum". In the 13th century, it was one of the seventeen castles in Calabria managed by Reale Curia during the reign of Charles I of Naples and it was also used as a prison. In that period, it was subjected to maintenance as written in folio 233 of 1281 of Regia Zecca Archive. In the registry of April 14, 1323, it was written that Duke of Calabria, son of King Robert give to Noble, Contestabile, Baron of Settingiano Marco the "Castellania of Stilo" (ruling the Castle of Stilo) to him and his descents.{{cite book , author= Luigi Cunsolo , title= La storia di Stilo e de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vallata Dello Stilaro
The Vallata dello Stilaro is a valley in the Province of Reggio Calabria of Southern Italy. It takes its name from river that flow in the area, the Stilaro. The principal settlements present in the valley are Bivongi, Monasterace, Pazzano and Stilo. The Ecomuseo delle ferriere e fonderie di Calabria, preserves and promotes the natural, artistic and cultural things of the place. History The first evidence of settlements in the valley come from the ancient Greeks between the 8th and 7th centuries BC where along the coast, near the Assi river, the established the little colony of Caulonia, estimated to have included 10,000 people. Kaulon trades with inland indigenous people that mined minerals. They coined money with local silver. For its sources Kaulon was desired by Locri and Kroton colonies. In the first half of the 4th century BC, the Stilaro river (at that time called Elleporo) was the site of an important battle between Dionisio I and Lega italiota (italiota lea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vallata Dello Stilaro Allaro
The Vallata dello Stilaro is a valley in the Province of Reggio Calabria of Southern Italy. It takes its name from river that flow in the area, the Stilaro. The principal settlements present in the valley are Bivongi, Monasterace, Pazzano and Stilo. The Ecomuseo delle ferriere e fonderie di Calabria, preserves and promotes the natural, artistic and cultural things of the place. History The first evidence of settlements in the valley come from the ancient Greeks between the 8th and 7th centuries BC where along the coast, near the Assi river, the established the little colony of Caulonia, estimated to have included 10,000 people. Kaulon trades with inland indigenous people that mined minerals. They coined money with local silver. For its sources Kaulon was desired by Locri and Kroton colonies. In the first half of the 4th century BC, the Stilaro river (at that time called Elleporo) was the site of an important battle between Dionisio I and Lega italiota (italiota lea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cattolica Di Stilo
The Cattolica di Stilo is a Byzantine church in the ''comune'' of Stilo ( Province of Reggio), Calabria, southern Italy. It is a national monument. History The ''Cattolica'' was built in the 9th century, when Calabria was part of the Byzantine Empire. The name derives from the Greek word ''katholiki'', which referred to the churches provided with a baptistery. It is one of the most important examples of Byzantine architecture, together with the church of San Marco in Rossano Calabro. Architecture The ''Cattolica'' is mainly built of brick. It follows a plan with "inscribed cross", typical of the middle Byzantine age. The interior is divided by four columns into five similar spaces. The square central space and the angled ones are covered by domes. The angled ones have tambours with the same diameter, while the central dome is slightly taller and larger. The western sides lies on free rocks, while the southern area, ending with three apses, stands on three stone bases. The cons ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battle Of Punta Stilo
The Battle of Calabria, known to the Italian Navy as the Battle of Punta Stilo, was a naval battle during the Battle of the Mediterranean in the Second World War. Ships of the Italian ''Regia Marina'' were opposed by vessels of the British Royal Navy and Royal Australian Navy. The battle occurred 30 miles to the east of Punta Stilo, Calabria, on 9 July 1940. It was one of the few pitched battles of the Mediterranean campaign during the Second World War involving large numbers of ships on both sides. Both sides claimed victory, but in fact the battle was a draw and everyone returned to their bases safely. Background When Italy entered the Second World War, its forces in Libya were ill-equipped for offensive operations, and the Italian fleet was forced to start large supply convoys in order to bring them up to fighting condition. On 6 July a convoy of four merchant ships left Naples on their way to Benghazi, while attempting to fool the Allies into thinking they were making ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calabria
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Punta Stilo
Punta Stilo (Italian for "Cape of Columns") is the name of an arcuate headland in Calabria, Italy. It lies immediately north of Monasterace (the site of ancient Caulonia) and constitutes the western coast of the Gulf of Squillace. Pliny the Elder refers to it by the name ''Cocynthum''. The names ''Punta Stilo'' and ''Stilida'' were mentioned for the first time in the Itinerarium maritimum which dates to the late fifth century AD. History During the Second World War, 30 miles east of Punta Stilo on 9 July 1940, the Battle of Punta Stilo took place between the Italian and British navies. It was one of the few pitched battle A pitched battle or set-piece battle is a battle in which opposing forces each anticipate the setting of the battle, and each chooses to commit to it. Either side may have the option to disengage before the battle starts or shortly thereafter. A ...s of the Mediterranean campaign during World War II involving large numbers of ships on both sides. The clas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tommaso Campanella
Tommaso Campanella (; 5 September 1568 – 21 May 1639), baptized Giovanni Domenico Campanella, was an Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, theologian, astrologer, and poet. He was prosecuted by the Roman Inquisition for heresy in 1594 and was confined to house arrest for two years. Accused of conspiring against the Spanish rulers of Calabria in 1599, he was tortured and sent to prison, where he spent 27 years. He wrote his most significant works during this time, including '' The City of the Sun'', a utopia describing an egalitarian theocratic society where property is held in common. Biography Born into poverty in Stilo, in the province of Reggio di Calabria in Calabria, southern Italy, Campanella was a child prodigy. Son of an illiterate cobbler, he entered the Dominican Order before the age of fourteen, [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francesco Cozza (painter)
Francesco Cozza (1605 – 13 January 1682) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. Life Cozza was born in Stilo in Calabria and died in Rome. As a young man, he went to Rome where he was apprenticed to Domenichino, with whom he traveled to Naples in 1634. He is best known for his expansive panegyric ceiling fresco, ''Apotheosis of Pamphili House'' (1667-1673) in the library of Palazzo Pamphili in Piazza Navona in Rome. During 1658 to 1659, he frescoed the ''Stanza del Fuoco'' in Palazzo Pamphili in Valmontone, working alongside Pier Francesco Mola, Gaspar Dughet, Mattia Preti, Giovanni Battista Tassi (''il Cortonese''), and Guglielmo Cortese.Laura Bartoni, page 424. He also collaborated with Carlo Maratta and Domenico Maria Canuti in the fresco decorations of the Palazzo Altieri. His landscape paintings recall the Carracci style of ''paesi con figure piccole'' (landscapes with small figures). He painted a ''Madonna del Riscatto'' in church of Santa Francesc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monastery Of San Giovanni Theristis
The Monastery of San Giovanni Theristis , is an Orthodox Christian monastery in Bivongi, Calabria ( province of Reggio), southern Italy. It is part of the Romanian Orthodox Diocese for Italy. History Calabria was part of the Byzantine Empire until the 11th century. A Greek monk, St. John Theristus, operated in the Stilaro Valley during the 9th century. His ''aghiasma'' ("holy font") became a popular center of local pilgrimage, and here a Byzantine monastery was founded in the 11th century. After the Norman conquest of southern Italy, it developed as one of the most important Basilian monasteries in southern Italy, maintaining its splendour until the 15th century, with a rich library and numerous art treasures. It lived a phase of decline until 1579, when the founding of the Basilian Order of Italy restored it as the main Basilian center in southern Calabria. However, in the 17th century brigandage damaged the monastery, and the monks decided to moved to a bigger monastery o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Castles In Italy
This is a list of castles in Italy by location. Abruzzo ;Province of L'Aquila * Castello normanno, Anversa degli Abruzzi * Castello Orsini-Colonna, Avezzano * Castello Piccolomini, Balsorano * Castle of Barisciano, Barisciano * Castello di Barrea, Barrea * Castle of Bominaco, Bominaco * Castello di Bugnara, Bugnara *Rocca Calascio, Calascio * Castello Piccolomini, Capestrano * Castello di Carsoli, Carsoli *Castello di Castel di Sangro, Castel di Sangro * Palazzo dei Conti di Celano, Castelvecchio Subequo * Castello Piccolomini, Celano * Castle of Fossa, Fossa * Castello di Gagliano Aterno, Gagliano Aterno *Forte Spagnolo, L'Aquila * Castello Orsini, Massa d'Albe * Palazzo Santucci, Navelli * Castle of Ocre, Ocre * Castello di Oricola, Oricola * Castello di Ortona dei Marsi, Ortona dei Marsi * Castello Piccolomini, Ortucchio * Castello Caldora, Pacentro * Castello di Pereto, Pereto * Castello Cantelmo, Pettorano sul Gizio * Castel Camponeschi, Prata d'Ansidonia * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caulonia (ancient City)
Caulonia or Caulon ( grc, Καυλωνία, Kaulōnía; also spelled Kaulonia or Kaulon) was an ancient city of Magna Graecia on the shore of the Ionian Sea. At some point after the destruction of the city by Rome in 200 BC, the inhabitants moved to a location further inland. There they founded Stilida, which developed into the modern town Stilo. Since 1863 AD the name Caulonia has also been used by the city formerly known as Castelvetere. The city changed its name to Caulonia in honor of the ancient city, which was mistakenly believed to have been located in its territory. Today the ruins of the ancient city can be found near Monasterace in the Province of Reggio Calabria, Calabria, Italy. Some of the artefacts which have been excavated at the site can now be seen in the Monasterace Archeological Museum. Geography The city was located between the mouth of the Stilaro river to the south and the mouth of the Assi river to the north. In ancient times the mouth of the As ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
