Cirò (Calabria)

Cirò
Country	Italy
region	Calabria
province	Crotone  (KR)
Coordinates	39 ° 23 '  N , 17 ° 4'  E Coordinates: 39 ° 22 '55 "  N , 17 ° 3' 48"  E
height	351  m slm
surface	70 km²
Residents	2,643 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density	38 inhabitants / km²
Post Code	88813
prefix	0962
ISTAT number	101007
Popular name	Cirotani
Patron saint	San Francesco di Paola
Website	Cirò

Cirò is an Italian commune in the province of Crotone in the Calabria region with 2643 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019). It is located 41 km north of Crotone and 120 km east of Cosenza .

geography

The place is in the hinterland of the coast of the Ionian Sea on the mountain Cirò (351 m above sea level) on a ridge of the hinterland. The municipality stretches from the coast over the plain of Alice to the hilly foothills of the Sila Grande .

The districts of Capella, Cappelleri, Casale Attiva and Toscano belong to Cirò. The much larger coastal town of Cirò Marina was developed in 1952.

The neighboring towns are Carfizzi , Cirò Marina, Crucoli , Melissa and Umbriatico .

traffic

The center is six kilometers from the Strada Statale 106 Jonica , which leads from Reggio Calabria to Taranto .

The nearest train station is six kilometers away in Cirò Marina on the Tarento – Reggio di Calabria railway line .

history

Ceramic finds and a very old necropolis suggest a settlement since the Iron Age .

In ancient times the city was called Krimisa ( Greek  Κρίμισα ) or Crimisa . The headland at Cirò Marina ( Crimisa Promontorium ) bore the same name .

Population development

year	1861	1881	1901	1921	1936	1951	1971	1991	2001
Residents	3,718	4,076	4,281	4,341	4,690	5,335	5,204	5,264	3,614

Source: ISTAT

politics

Mario Caruso (list of citizens) was elected mayor in May 2007.

Attractions

The cityscape is characterized by the Castello Carafa , a fortress from the late fifteenth century.

Culinary specialties

The place name Cirò also gave its name to the DOC wine-growing area surrounding the place in which the wine of the same name is produced. In this growing area, both red, white and rosé wines are grown (Cirò Rosso, Cirò Bianco and Cirò Rosato). The grapes of the Gaglioppo variety are the main component of red wine. For the Cirò Bianco, Greco Bianco and Trebbiano are mainly used. The Rossato has proportions of all three types.

Personalities

• Mario Fortunato (born September 2, 1958), journalist and writer
• Luigi Lilio (around 1510; † 1576), physician, astronomer and philosopher
• Giovan Francesco Pugliese (* December 27, 1789; † Cirò, January 11, 1855), historian and lawyer
• Giuseppe Scigliano (born October 27, 1951), writer
• Domenico Siciliani (May 1, 1879 - May 6, 1938), general and governor of Cyrenaica in Libya occupied by Italy
• Luigi Siciliani (February 15, 1881 - March 24, 1925), politician in Mussolini's cabinet

literature

• JP Small:  KRIMISA (Cirò) Calabria, Italy . In: Richard Stillwell et al. a. (Ed.): The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ 1976, ISBN 0-691-03542-3 .
• Ilona Witten: Calabria (= DuMont travel paperback ). DuMont, Cologne 2001, ISBN 3-7701-5288-3 , p. 136.

Web links

• Cirò on www.comuni-italiani.it (Italian)

Individual evidence

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