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Arcavacata
Arcavacata () is an Italian hamlet (''frazione'') of the municipality of Rende in the province of Cosenza, Calabria. Its population is of 1,831. History The name Arcavacata comes from an ancient fortress-lookout ''Arce-vocata'' ("arx suited"), which is found in some papal documents of the Middle Ages. There's also legendary event located a few centuries after today. On a rainy, windy winter night, a blind man and a lame man walked down the street in search of shelter. Suddenly a light illuminated the two patients and a voice ordered them to dig. Listened to the voice, the light led their way. While digging, they realized they were touching an arch and under the arch something particular stopped them. The light became more intense, it illuminated everything and so the blind man saw and the lame began to walk. The voice told them that they were healed and that a church should be built in that place. What they had found was a painting depicting the Holy Mother with baby Jesus. The ...
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Rende
Rende is a city and ''comune'' in the province of Cosenza, Calabria, southern Italy, home to the headquarters of the University of Calabria. It has a population of about 35,000, or more than 60,000 if the university students living there are taken into account. It is divided in two parts: the old town, which is stands on a high hill, and the modern area, on level ground, which is connected to the city of Cosenza and with it is the centre of the economy of the province of Cosenza. Geography Rende stretches from the left river of the Crati to the mountains called "Serre Cosentine". * Southern borders: Cosenza, Castrolibero, Marano Marchesato and Marano Principato. * Northern borders: Montalto Uffugo and San Vincenzo La Costa. * Western borders: San Fili. * Eastern borders: Castiglione Cosentino, Rose, San Pietro in Guarano and Zumpano. The municipality counts the hamlets (''frazioni'') of Arcavacata, Commenda, Quattromiglia, Roges, Santo Stefano, Saporito and Surdo. The territo ...
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University Of Calabria
The University of Calabria ( it, Università della Calabria, UNICAL) is a state-run university in Italy. Located in Arcavacata, a hamlet of Rende and a suburb of Cosenza, the university was founded in 1972. Among its founders there were Beniamino Andreatta, Giorgio Gagliani, Pietro Bucci and Paolo Sylos Labini. It currently has about 35,000 students, 800 teaching and research staff and about 700 administrative staff. Campus The Campus of the University of Calabria was originally designed by Vittorio Gregotti and Dänen Martensson. The buildings are situated along a suspension bridge, which is currently 1.3 kilometres long. As in British and North-American campuses, students live in specific residential blocks near the University. The whole structure is swathed in greenery of hills near Arcavacata, a small village at 10 km from Cosenza, and 4 km from the city center of Rende. Organization The University is organized in the following departments: *Biology, ecology an ...
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Quattromiglia
Quattromiglia, also known as ''Quattromiglia di Rende'', is an inhabited area of the municipality of Rende in the province of Cosenza, Calabria. With a population of 8,813, it is the most populated district of its municipality. History The origin of the name, meaning "Four Miles", derives from the Latin words ''Quattuor'' (four) and ''Milia'' (mile). It was due to the name of a farmhouse, 4 miles far from ''Cosentia'', the modern Cosenza. Founded at the end of the Middle Ages, the town urbanistically grew up in the 1970s, mainly due to the presence of the University of Calabria (2,2 km far), near the neighboring village of Arcavacata. Geography Located in the northern suburb of Cosenza (6 km far), Quattromiglia is 8 from Castiglione Cosentino and 28 from Paola. It is extended along the national road SS 19 from the hills in the west to the river Crati in the east. Transport Quattromiglia is served by the A3 motorway This is a list of roads designated A3. Roads entrie ...
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Orto Botanico Dell'Università Della Calabria
The Orto Botanico dell'Università della Calabria (8 hectares) is a botanical garden operated by the University of Calabria. It is located at I-87030 Via Pietro Bucci, Arcavacata di Rende, Province of Cosenza, Calabria, Italy. Species The garden contains over 400 species of local Calabrian plants, as well as nonlocal introductions. Its natural vegetation is oak, primarily Quercus pubescens, with additional plantings of other oaks including Q. coccifera, Q. farnetto, Q. macrolepis, Q. pedunculata, and Q. trojana. Other trees include alders, poplars, and willows, with the addition of Liriodendron, Metasequoia, and Taxodium. The garden also contains two bamboo groves ( Phyllostachys), and plantings of ''Equisetum telmateia'', ''Ginkgo biloba'', ''Osmunda regalis'', Podocarpus, and Polypodium. The garden includes two greenhouses. The first contains plants such as '' Adiantum capillus-veneris'', ''Cyperus papyrus'', '' Pinguicula hirtiflora'', ''Pteris cretica'', ''Pteris vittat ...
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Province Of Cosenza
The province of Cosenza ( it, provincia di Cosenza) is a 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. The province of Cosenza contains a community of Occitan language (also known as Langue d'oc) speakers in Guardia Piemontese: it was formed by Vaudoi or Waldensian movement members, who moved to Cosenza to avoid religious persecution, in the 13th and 14th centuries. Many of the Arbëreshë Albanians of Italy live in the province, since arriving in the 16th century to flee the religious persecution undertaken by the Ottoman Empire. History The first traces of human settlement in the area date from the early Palaeolithic period. These sites include the Romito Cave at Papasidero, including wall paintings of bovidae. Cosenza began as a settlement of the Italic Bruttii tribe, and became their capital before the Romans invaded the area. The town was conque ...
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Our Lady Of Consolation
Our Lady of Consolation or ''Mary, Consoler of the Afflicted'' (Latin: ) is a Roman Catholic title of the Blessed Virgin Mary. It dates back to the second century and is one of her earliest Marian titles of honor. The title ''Comforter of the afflicted'' is also used as an invocation in the Litany of Loreto. History The origin of this invocation is derived from the Augustinian friars who propagated this particular devotion. Along with Saints Augustine, and Monica, Our Lady of Consolation is one of the three patrons of the Augustinian orders. The title (Comforter of the Afflicted) is part of the Litany of Loreto, and is Augustinian in origin. Devotion to Our Lady of Consolation was propagated by the Augustinian monks. By the early 18th century the custom of asking for the final blessing before death in the name of Our Lady of Consolation was very popular. In congregations of the Augustinian Order, the "Augustinian Rosary" is sometimes called the "Crown of Our Mother of Co ...
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Italian Language
Italian (''italiano'' or ) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire. Together with Sardinian, Italian is the least divergent language from Latin. Spoken by about 85 million people (2022), Italian is an official language in Italy, Switzerland ( Ticino and the Grisons), San Marino, and Vatican City. It has an official minority status in western Istria (Croatia and Slovenia). Italian is also spoken by large immigrant and expatriate communities in the Americas and Australia.Ethnologue report for language code:ita (Italy)
– Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (ed.), 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Fifteenth edition. Dallas, Tex.: SIL International. Online version
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Frazione
A ''frazione'' (plural: ) is a type of subdivision of a ''comune'' (municipality) in Italy, often a small village or hamlet outside the main town. Most ''frazioni'' were created during the Fascist era (1922–1943) as a way to consolidate territorial subdivisions in the country. In the autonomous region of the Aosta Valley, a ''frazione'' is officially called an ''hameau'' in French. Description Typically the term ''frazioni'' applies to the villages surrounding the main town ('' capoluogo'') of a ''comune''. Subdivision of a ''comune'' is optional; some ''comuni'' have no ''frazioni'', but others have several dozen. The ''comune'' usually has the same name of the ''capoluogo'', but not always, in which case it is called a ''comune sparso''. In practice, most ''frazioni'' are small villages or hamlets, occasionally just a clump of houses. Not every hamlet is classified as a ''frazione''; those that are not are often referred to as '' località'', for example, in the telephone ...
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Province Of Cosenza
The province of Cosenza ( it, provincia di Cosenza) is a 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. The province of Cosenza contains a community of Occitan language (also known as Langue d'oc) speakers in Guardia Piemontese: it was formed by Vaudoi or Waldensian movement members, who moved to Cosenza to avoid religious persecution, in the 13th and 14th centuries. Many of the Arbëreshë Albanians of Italy live in the province, since arriving in the 16th century to flee the religious persecution undertaken by the Ottoman Empire. History The first traces of human settlement in the area date from the early Palaeolithic period. These sites include the Romito Cave at Papasidero, including wall paintings of bovidae. Cosenza began as a settlement of the Italic Bruttii tribe, and became their capital before the Romans invaded the area. The town was conque ...
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Calabria
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Cosenza
Cosenza (; local dialect: ''Cusenza'', ) is a city in Calabria, Italy. The city centre has a population of approximately 70,000; the urban area counts more than 200,000 inhabitants. It is the capital of the Province of Cosenza, which has a population of more than 700,000. The demonym of Cosenza in English is Cosentian. The ancient town is the seat of the Cosentian Academy, one of the oldest academies of philosophical and literary studies in Italy and Europe. To this day, the city remains a cultural hub, with museums, monuments, theatres, libraries, and the University of Calabria. Geography and climate Located at the confluence of two ancient rivers, the Busento and the Crati, Cosenza stands 238 m above sea level in a valley between the Sila plateau and the coastal range of mountains. The old town, overshadowed by its Swabian castle, descends to the river Crati. The modern city lies to the north, beyond the Busento, on level ground. Almost completely surrounded by mount ...
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Saint Mary Of Consolation Church
In religious belief, a saint is a person who is recognized as having an exceptional degree of holiness, likeness, or closeness to God. However, the use of the term ''saint'' depends on the context and denomination. In Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Anglican, Oriental Orthodox, and Lutheran doctrine, all of their faithful deceased in Heaven are considered to be saints, but some are considered worthy of greater honor or emulation. Official ecclesiastical recognition, and consequently a public cult of veneration, is conferred on some denominational saints through the process of canonization in the Catholic Church or glorification in the Eastern Orthodox Church after their approval. While the English word ''saint'' originated in Christianity, historians of religion tend to use the appellation "in a more general way to refer to the state of special holiness that many religions attribute to certain people", referring to the Jewish tzadik, the Islamic walī, the Hindu rishi or Sikh gu ...
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