Riace ( Calabrian: ) is a ''

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 ...

'' (municipality) in the

Metropolitan City of Reggio Calabria Metropolitan City of Reggio Calabria ( it, Città metropolitana di Reggio Calabria) is an area of local government at the level of metropolitan city in the Calabria region of the Republic of Italy. It comprises the territory of the city of Reg ...

in the

Italian Italian(s) may refer to: * Anything of, from, or related to the people of Italy over the centuries ** Italians, an ethnic group or simply a citizen of the Italian Republic or Italian Kingdom ** Italian language, a Romance language *** Regional Ita ...

region Calabria, located about south of

Catanzaro Catanzaro (, or ; scn, label= Catanzarese, Catanzaru ; , or , ''Katastaríoi Lokrói''; ; la, Catacium), also known as the "City of the two Seas", is an Italian city of 86,183 inhabitants (2020), the capital of the Calabria region and of its p ...

and about northeast of Reggio Calabria. Riace borders the municipalities of

Camini Camini is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Reggio Calabria in the Italian region Calabria, located about south of Catanzaro and about northeast of Reggio Calabria. Camini borders the following municipalities: Riace, Stignano, S ...

and Stignano.

Art

It is notable as the place where the ''Bronzi di Riace'' (

Riace bronzes The ''Riace bronzes'' (Italian: ''Bronzi di Riace'', ), also called the Riace Warriors, are two full-size Greek bronzes of naked bearded warriors, cast about 460–450 BC that were found in the sea in 1972 near Riace, Calabria, in southern ...

), bronze statues of warriors, were found in the sea in 1972. These

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s can be seen in the

Museo Nazionale della Magna Grecia The Museo Nazionale della Magna Grecia (''National Museum of Magna Græcia''), Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Reggio Calabria (''National Archaeological Museum of Reggio Calabria'') or Palazzo Piacentini is a museum in Reggio Calabria, souther ...

(National Museum of Magna Graecia, i.e. the colonies of Greater Greece) in Reggio Calabria. Santi medici riace 2010

Migration policy

Riace attracted international attention through its policies on migrants under mayor Domenico Lucano during the

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. As of January 2011, about 450 refugees from 20 countries had settled there among the 1,800 inhabitants, revitalising the village and preventing the closure of the village school. Lucano, came second runner-up in the 2010

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competition; the winner was the

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, which has about nine million inhabitants. He was also listed by '' Fortune'' as one of the world's greatest leaders in 2016 featuring at number 40 in the magazine's listing. Lucano was later sentenced to 13 years in prison for abetting illegal immigration.

Art

Migration policy

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See also