Belmonte Calabro

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Belmonte Calabro
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Belmonte Calabro (Italy)
Belmonte Calabro
Country Italy
region Calabria
province Cosenza  (CS)
Coordinates 39 ° 10 ′  N , 16 ° 5 ′  E Coordinates: 39 ° 10 ′ 0 ″  N , 16 ° 5 ′ 0 ″  E
height 262  m slm
surface 23 km²
Residents 1,916 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density 83 inhabitants / km²
Post Code 87033
prefix 0982
ISTAT number 078013
Popular name Belmontesi
Patron saint San Bonaventura (second Sunday in May)

Belmonte Calabro , also known as Belmonte , is a town in the province of Cosenza in the Calabria region in southern Italy with 1916 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019).

Church in Belmonte

The place is 73 km southwest of Cosenza on the Tyrrhenian Sea . The districts are Annunziata, Vadi, Marina, Santa Barbara, Salice and Spineto. The neighboring towns are Amantea , Lago , Longobardi , Mendicino and San Pietro in Amantea .

In Belmonte Calabro there are remains of a medieval fortification. The parish church from the Middle Ages is worth seeing.

Web links

Commons : Belmonte Calabro  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.