San Marco Argentano

San Marco Argentano
Country	Italy
region	Calabria
province	Cosenza  (CS)
Coordinates	39 ° 33 '  N , 16 ° 7'  E Coordinates: 39 ° 33 '0 "  N , 16 ° 7' 0"  E
surface	78 km²
Residents	7,412 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density	95 inhabitants / km²
Post Code	87018
prefix	0984
ISTAT number	078123
Popular name	Sanmarchesi
Patron saint	San Marco Evangelista
Website	San Marco Argentano

Defense tower of Robert Guiskard

San Marco Argentano is a southern Italian city ​​and a bishopric in Calabria , province of Cosenza , on the state road 283/533 between Guardia Piemontese and Mandria Luci . The place has 7412 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019).

Around 1050, the later Duke of Apulia and Calabria and Norman ruler Robert Guiskard (* around 1015, † 1085) chose the strategically located San Marco Argentano as the seat for himself and his 60-strong troop and had a solid stone defense tower built.

In 1431, at the age of 15, Saint Francis de Paola was brought to the monastery of San Marco Argentano, in whose magnificent church he made his vows . In the cathedral there is the silver processional cross, a creation of the silversmith master Giovanni di Longobucco .

Today, San Marco Argentano is primarily known as the place where Butirro, a cheese made from the milk of cows that calved a year ago, is made. It is similar to the burrini from Apulia.

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• Illustration of the defense tower

Individual evidence

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