Bova (Calabria)

Bova
Country	Italy
region	Calabria
Metropolitan city	Reggio Calabria (RC)
Coordinates	38 ° 0 ′ N , 15 ° 56 ′ E Coordinates: 38 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ N , 15 ° 56 ′ 0 ″ E
height	820 m slm
surface	46 km²
Residents	410 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density	9 inhabitants / km²
Post Code	89033
prefix	0965
ISTAT number	080011
Popular name	Bovesi
Patron saint	San Leo
Website	Bova
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Bova is an Italian municipality in the metropolitan city of Reggio Calabria in Calabria with 410 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019) and is a member of the association I borghi più belli d'Italia (The most beautiful places in Italy).

Location and dates

Bova is 57 km southeast of Reggio Calabria . The place is on the southern slope of the Aspromonte on the course of the Amendolea River north of the Ionian Sea . The neighboring communities are Africo , Bova Marina , Condofuri , Palizzi , Roghudi and Staiti .

history

The cathedral is mentioned in a papal bull from 1081 to 1084. The village is first mentioned in the 11th century and was the seat of a bishop . In the middle of the 15th century, Albanians settled here after the death of Skanderbeg . In 1783 the city was almost completely destroyed by an earthquake . The Greek-Calabrian dialect is also spoken in Bova .

Attractions

The ruins of a castle lie above the place.

Directly below is the cathedral. The cathedral was destroyed in an earthquake in 1783 and then rebuilt. There are numerous references to the Byzantine period in the cathedral . The outer walls date from the time of the Normans .

Since October 2012 the multimedia exhibition “Calabria Contadina nelle immagini di Gerhard Rohlfs” (“The rural Calabria in the pictures of Gerhard Rohlfs”) has been in the Palazzo Tuscano, the visitor center of the National Park Aspromonte (Parco Nazionale dell'Aspromonte) in Bova Antonio Panzerella). The exhibition shows, among other things, photographs that the German Romanist Gerhard Rohlfs took from the 1920s on during his field research trip to research the Greek-Calabrian dialect.

Individual evidence

↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.
↑ I borghi più belli d'Italia (official website), accessed on May 18, 2017 (Italian)

Web links

Commons : Bova - collection of images, videos and audio files

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

[2] I borghi più belli d'Italia (official website), accessed on May 18, 2017 (Italian)