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Morano Calabro ( Moranese: ) is a town and '' comune'' in the
province of Cosenza The province of Cosenza ( it, provincia di Cosenza) is a Provinces of Italy, 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 ...
in the
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region of southern Italy. It was the birthplace of mathematician Gaetano Scorza.


Geography

The municipality borders with
Castrovillari Castrovillari ( Calabrian: ) is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Cosenza in the Calabria region of southern Italy. Geography Castrovillari lies in the north of Calabria, close to the border with Basilicata and within the Pollino National ...
(the nearest town), Mormanno, Rotonda,
San Basile San Basile ( aae, Shën Vasili) is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Cosenza in the Calabria region of southern Italy. Both Italian Italian(s) may refer to: * Anything of, from, or related to the people of Italy over the centuries ** I ...
, Saracena, Terranova di Pollino and
Viggianello Viggianello may refer to: * Viggianello, Basilicata, town and comune in the province of Potenza, in the Southern Italian region of Basilicata * Viggianello, Corse-du-Sud Viggianello (; co, Vighjaneddu) is a commune in the Corse-du-Sud depa ...
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Campotenese

Its '' frazione'' (civil parish), the village of
Campotenese Morano Calabro ( Moranese: ) is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Cosenza in the Calabria region of southern Italy. It was the birthplace of mathematician Gaetano Scorza. Geography The municipality borders with Castrovillari (the nea ...
, is located on a mountain pass at 1,015
amsl Height above mean sea level is a measure of the vertical distance (height, elevation or altitude) of a location in reference to a historic mean sea level taken as a vertical datum. In geodesy, it is formalized as ''orthometric heights''. The comb ...
. A tourist site, the village is best known for the Battle of Campo Tenese (1806) between the First French Empire and the
Kingdom of Naples The Kingdom of Naples ( la, Regnum Neapolitanum; it, Regno di Napoli; nap, Regno 'e Napule), also known as the Kingdom of Sicily, was a state that ruled the part of the Italian Peninsula south of the Papal States between 1282 and 1816. It was ...
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Sister cities

* Porto Alegre, BrazilInfos about the twinnage Morano-Porto Alegre (www.comuni-italiani.it)
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See also

* Battle of Campo Tenese


References


External links

*
Official website

Cities and towns in Calabria {{Calabria-geo-stub