Sant'Eufemia d'Aspromonte is a ''
comune
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'' (municipality) in the
Province of Reggio Calabria
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It w ...
in the
Italian
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region
Calabria
Calabria is a Regions of Italy, region in Southern Italy. It is a peninsula bordered by the region Basilicata to the north, the Ionian Sea to the east, the Strait of Messina to the southwest, which separates it from Sicily, and the Tyrrhenian S ...
, located about southwest of
Catanzaro
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and about northeast of
Reggio Calabria
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. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 4,061 and an area of .
[All demographics and other statistics: Italian statistical institute ]Istat
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.
Overview
Sant'Eufemia d'Aspromonte borders the following municipalities:
Bagnara Calabra
Bagnara Calabra (or simply Bagnara) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Reggio Calabria in Calabria, southern Italy. It is located in the hills facing the Tyrrhenian Sea on the southern tip of the region, about southwest of Catanza ...
,
Melicuccà,
San Procopio,
Scilla
''Scilla'' () is a genus of about 30 to 80 species of bulb-forming perennial plant, perennial herbaceous plants in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Scilloideae. Sometimes called the squills in English, they are native to woodlands, subalpine ...
,
Sinopoli.
Robert Guiscard
Robert Guiscard ( , ; – 17 July 1085), also referred to as Robert de Hauteville, was a Normans, Norman adventurer remembered for his Norman conquest of southern Italy, conquest of southern Italy and Sicily in the 11th century.
Robert was born ...
established a monastery here in the 11th century. Its first abbot was
Robert de Grantmesnil, the exiled abbot of
Saint-Evroul-sur-Ouche, who brought with him 11 monks and began a musical tradition at Sant'Eufemia to rival the fame of that of Saint-Evroul.
Sant'Eufemia was one of 300 villages devastated by the
1783 Calabrian earthquakes
The 1783 Calabrian earthquakes were a sequence of five strong earthquakes that hit the region of Calabria in southern Italy (then part of the Kingdom of Naples), the first two of which produced significant tsunamis. The epicenters form a clear ...
.
The PBS show ''
Finding Your Roots
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'' revealed that the ancestors of
Joy Behar
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hailed from this village.
Demographic evolution
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References
External links
Cities and towns in Calabria
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