Capo d'Orlando ( scn, Capu d'Orlannu) is a in the

Metropolitan City of Messina The Metropolitan City of Messina ( it, Città metropolitana di Messina) is a Metropolitan cities of Italy, metropolitan city in Sicily, Italy. Its capital is the city of Messina. It replaced the Province of Messina and comprises the city of Messin ...

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, southern

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, one of the main centers of the mountain and coastal

Nebrodi The Nebrodi ( scn, Munti Nèbbrudi; it, Monti Nebrodi, ; la, Nebrōdēs montēs) is a mountain range that runs along the north east of Sicily. Together with the Madonie and the Peloritani, they form the Sicilian Apennines. The mountains run ...

area.

History

After the destruction of the

Greek colony Greek colonization was an organised colonial expansion by the Archaic Greeks into the Mediterranean Sea and Black Sea in the period of the 8th–6th centuries BC. This colonization differed from the migrations of the Greek Dark Ages in that i ...

of Agathyrnum by the Roman Republican Army, the only settlement was a tiny fisherman's village. In 1925 Capo d'Orlando was elevated to the status of Comune (council), as before it was included in the territory of Naso. A railway station was made during the Fascist era in the early 20th century. During this century the population and tourist development quickly grew.

Economy

Tourism is one of the main resources of the local economy. The town also has a small marina for both fishing and tourist boats alike that also offers transportation to and from the Aeolian islands during the summer season and approximately 14 km of beaches, rocky shores that face the deep blue Tyrrenian sea making it an ideal spot to enjoy the summertime, early fall and late springtime. The location of Capo d'Orlando is also very peculiar because for a town that faces the sea, it is also very close (less than 20 km) to Nebrodi Mountain Regional Environmental Park: a fairly large extension of temperate woods, where is possible to hike to lakes, rivers, falls and tiny historical villages where everyone can enjoy the best of traditional Sicilian food and wine. There are banks and commercial business firms along with several fair sized factories located nearby such as "Porte IMIC" (wooden and metal door manufacturer), "irritec" and "siplast" (irrigation systems). Another economic factor is exploitation of the extensive presence of orange of lemon fields throughout the area.

Sport

Capo d'Orlando is home to a second division basketball team,

Orlandina Basket Orlandina Basket, known as Infodrive Capo d'Orlando for sponsorship reasons, is an Italian professional basketball club that is based in Capo d'Orlando, Sicily. It plays in the second tier Serie A2 Basket. Founded in 1978, it was one of the youn ...

Twin towns

* Culver City, United States *

Conversano Conversano ( Barese: ) is an ancient town and ''comune'' in the Metropolitan City of Bari, Apulia, south-eastern Italy. It is southeast of Bari and from the Adriatic coast, at above sea level. The counts of Conversano owned a stud that they u ...

, Italy * Fremantle, Australia

People

* Calogero Paparoni (1876-1958) - coffee trader migrated to Venezuela * Giuseppina Paterniti (born 1956) -

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journalist * Lucio Piccolo (1901-1969) - poet * Filippo Sindoni (1933- 2006) - entrepreneur migrated to Venezuela * Vittorio Sindoni (born 1939) - film director and screenwriter

References

External links

Capo d'Orlando's info
Municipalities of the Metropolitan City of Messina 1920 establishments in Italy {{Sicily-geo-stub