Gioiosa Ionica (
Calabrian: ) is a town and ''
comune
The (; plural: ) is a local administrative division of Italy, roughly equivalent to a township or municipality. It is the third-level administrative division of Italy, after regions ('' regioni'') and provinces (''province''). The can also ...
'' in
Italy
Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical ...
in the
province of Reggio Calabria
The Province of Reggio Calabria ( it, Provincia di Reggio Calabria) was a province in the Calabria region of Italy. It was the southernmost province in mainland Italy and is separated from the island of Sicily by the Strait of Messina. The capita ...
, region of
Calabria. It lies near the east coast of Calabria and covers an area of .
The remains of a theatre belonging to the Roman period were discovered in 1883.
The ruins of an ancient building called the Naviglio, the nature of which does not seem clear, are described (''ib''. 1884, p. 252).
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Cities and towns in Calabria
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