San Giovanni in Fiore (; nap, label=
Calabrian, Sangiuvanni ) 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 the
province of Cosenza
The province of Cosenza ( it, provincia di Cosenza) is a Provinces of Italy, province in the Calabria region of southern Italy. Its capital is the city of Cosenza. It contains 150 ''comuni'', listed at list of communes of the Province of Cosenza ...
in the
Calabria
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region of southern
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 re ...
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The town originates from the
Florense Abbey
The San Giovanni in Fiore Abbey (Italian: ''Abbazia Florense'') is an abbey located in the Province of Cosenza, in the Calabria region of southwestern Italy.
History 12th century
The abbey's origin date back to Joachim da Fiore's trip to La Sil ...
, built here by the Calabrian monk
Joachim of Fiore
Joachim of Fiore, also known as Joachim of Flora and in Italian Gioacchino da Fiore (c. 1135 – 30 March 1202), was an Italian Christian theologian, Catholic abbot, and the founder of the monastic order of San Giovanni in Fiore. According to the ...
in 1188.
Marjorie Reeves
Marjorie Ethel Reeves, (17 July 1905 – 27 November 2003) was a British historian and educationalist. She served on several national committees and was a major contributor to the education of history in Britain. She helped create St Anne's Col ...
of Oxford University was made an honorary citizen of San Giovanni for reviving interest in Joachim of Fiore.
[Richard Pring, ‘Reeves, Marjorie Ethel (1905–2003)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, January 2007; online edn, Jan 200]
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References
Cities and towns in Calabria
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