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Rossano
Italy, officially the Italian Republic or Repubblica Italiana, is a Southern European country comprising of the Po River valley, the Italian Peninsula and the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia. It is shaped like a boot and for this reason Italians commonly call it lo Stivale, the boot or, due to its prevalent peninsular geographical nature, la Penisola, the Peninsula.
Rossano is a municipality and commune in Southern Italy, in the province of Cosenza. The city is located on a distinction two miles from far from the Gulf of Taranto. The town is known for its marble and alabaster quarries. The town is the seat for a Catholic archbishop and has a notable cathedral and castle. Roscianum was the original name of the town under the Roman Empire. In 2004, the population of the city was 36, 361 with density 234 per square kilometer.
The city in fact maintained notable privileges under the subsequent Hohenstaufen and Angevine dominations, but subsequently decayed after the feudalization in 1417. In 1612, the crown sold the lordship to the Aldobrandini, and in 1637, it passed to the Borghese who retained it until 1806. The city was part of the Neapolitan Republic of 1799, but its conditions did not improve after the Unification of Italy, and much of the population emigrated. Rossano was the birthplace of Pope John VII and Pope Urban VII. Rossano is also the birthplace of Saint Nilus the Younger, who founded the Abbey of Grottaferrata, and whose life is a valuable source of information about southern Italy in the 10th century.
The main sights in the city include the Cathedral, which is the main monument of Rossano. It has a nave with two aisles, and three apses. The church of Santa Chiara was built by Bona Sforza of Poland. The church of San Francesco di Paola has a notable Renaissance portal and a cloister. The late-Gothic church of San Bernardino was the first Roman Catholic Church in Rossano.
Rossano can be reached from the airports of Crotone, Lamezia Terme. Rossano has a railways station on the secondary branch starting from Sibari, on the line to Crotone. Rossano is an attractive city with natural beauty and historical places, while traveling in Italy.
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