Schiavonea

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View of the Gulf of Corigliano with the town of Schiavonea on the coastline

Schiavonea (or Marina Schiavonea ) is a district of the southern Italian city ​​of Corigliano-Rossano , Province of Cosenza , Region of Calabria . The district extends for about 2 km on a flat stretch of coast that borders the Sibari plain to the Ionian Sea . An elongated bay into which the Crati River flows forms the Gulf of Corigliano within the Gulf of Taranto . Schiavonea is located directly on the beach wall of the sea.

The place, which is well connected to the Italian road network via the Strada Statale 106 Jonica , lives for the most part and year-round from fishing and agriculture, and in summer also from tourism. The building stock of the place comes largely from a building boom ( febbre del cemento , literally translated: "cement fever") in the 1970s and 1980s.

Attractions

Santuario Santa Maria ad Nives (Chapel of St. Mary of the Snow)

The oldest building is the Torre del Cupo from 1601, a massive watchtower to protect against the piracy of the barbarian states , which haunted the inhabitants of this stretch of coast for a long time and led some of them to the slave trade in North Africa. In 1538, the notorious Ottoman corsair Khair ad-Din Barbarossa was still unimpeded here. Also worth seeing is the Santuario della Madonna della Schiavonea (Santa Maria ad Nives) , a baroque chapel from 1649, the construction of which goes back to a “miracle of Mary” on the local beach on the night of 23 August 1648. The Mother of God is said to have appeared here to Antonio Ruffo, a member of the coast guard . Agostino III. Saluzzo, Duke of Corigliano, had the chapel rebuilt in Baroque style, which was consecrated to Beata Maria Vergine di Schiavonea in 1665 . The Madonna picture in the chapel, created in 1650, a black Madonna in the style of a Byzantine icon , is especially venerated on August 5th, the Catholic feast day of the Madonna della Neve . Every year there is a nightly boat procession illuminated by candles and torches on the sea. The predecessor building of the chapel, which the residents had built in 1615, was a small church building dedicated to San Leonardo , the patron saint of slaves and prisoners.

Classicist column portal of the Quadrato Compagna , 2014
Inner courtyard of the Quadrato Compagna , 2014

The Quadrato Compagna , a classicist naval barracks from the middle of the 19th century, which is now partially empty and whose right-angled inner courtyard enclose four impressive portal buildings and magazines, is also characteristic of the appearance of the town center . The listed building is to be used as a leisure and cultural center as well as for the development of gastronomy and tourism. The main attraction of the place is the coastal promenade called Lungomare , on which numerous restaurants, houses and holiday homes are lined up. At the same time, there is an approx. 200 m wide, flat natural beach made of gravel and sand, which is used by several beach clubs and for landing smaller fishing boats. The beach opens up a panoramic view of Schiavonea, the sea, a coastal range of hills of the Silage Mountains and the distant mountain range of the Pollino National Park . The Porto di Corigliano , a modern fishing and trading port, which was still regularly served in 2010 by a ferry line from Catania in Sicily , which has since been discontinued, extends to the north-west of the town . At the beginning of 2015, the port hit international headlines when the refugee ship Ezadeen was brought in after floating in the sea without a crew but with several hundred refugees on board.

Approx. 8 km to the northwest, in Cassano allo Ionio , are the archaeological site and museum of the ancient cities of Sybaris , where the chamber pot was invented, and Thurioi , where the historian Herodotus lived.

mafia

In Schiavonea slew Mafia - Killer Giorgio Basile , called the angel's face , in 1992 on behalf of the local Carelli clans of the 'Ndrangheta the alleged police informer Edmondo Le Pera in a specially rented for the fact apartment. Basile committed this act together with his "best friend", Domenico Sanfilippo, called Mimmo , whom he also killed by hand in 1997 in the Netherlands and thrown into a manhole. Another murder of Basile's clan occurred in 1993, also in Schiavonea. In the decades before, there had been many murders, extortions and corruptions by the 'Ndrangheta in the coastal town, especially during the clan wars for territories and supremacy. Based on extensive confessions from Giorgo Basiles, who was arrested in Germany in 1998, the Italian judiciary was able to convict the local clan chief Santo Carelli (* 1939), known as La mammasantissima (German: The Most Holy Mother ), of many crimes and condemn them to life imprisonment. The director Oliver Hirschbiegel wants to process Basile's story with Moritz Bleibtreu in the lead role in the feature film Das Engelgesicht .

tourism

In the post-war period, mainly in connection with the spread of the automobile as a means of mass transport, tourism emerged in Schiavonea. From small beginnings with the rental of guest rooms and holiday apartments, it now bears the image of mass tourism in the months of July and August, with the Lungomare with its beach clubs, discos, restaurants, kiosks, ice cream parlors, hotels, holiday complexes, amusement rides and arcades being the spatial center this important source of income. In the remaining months, life there is rather calm and contemplative. Most of the holiday guests come from southern Italy.

Personalities

The soccer world champion Gennaro Gattuso grew up in Schiavonea and played for AC Milan for many years alongside the Italian national soccer team . The football players and brothers Domenico and Cataldo Cozza , Gattuso's cousins, also have their roots in Schiavonea.

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ^ Sibari plain - Corigliano - Schiavonea , article on the history of Corigliano in the portal silagreca.de , accessed on January 26, 2013
  3. ↑ René Laurentin, Patrick Sbalchiero: Dictionaire des "apparitions" de la Vierge Marie , Librairie Anthème Fayard, 2007, ISBN 978-2-213-64015-0
  4. ↑ Giuseppe Baraldi, Giuseppe Borghi: Notizia biografica sul cardinal Ferdinando Maria Saluzzo , Napoli, 1845, p 149 ( online )
  5. ↑ Madonna di Schiavonea , article on the history of the Church in the artesacrarossano.it portal , accessed on January 26, 2013
  6. ^ Apparizione di Marina di Schiavonea , article on the history of Marina di Schiavonea and its church building in the portal mariadinazareth.it , accessed on January 26, 2013
  7. ↑ Il Sito di Giovanni Scorzafave ( Memento of September 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), article on the history of the Santuario di Schiavonea in the portal giovanniscorzafave.jimdo.com , accessed on January 26, 2013
  8. ↑ Il Sito di Giovanni Scorzafave ( Memento of the original from September 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Article on the history of the Quadrato Compagna in the portal giovanniscorzafave.jimdo.com , accessed on January 26, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / giovanniscorzafave.jimdo.com
  9. ↑ See also Porto di Corigliano (in Italian with further information) , article in the Italian-language Wikipedia, accessed on January 26, 2013
  10. ↑ Francesco Mollo: Giunto a Corigliano il cargo con 350 migranti ( Memento of the original from January 3, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Article dated January 3, 2015 in the ilquotidianoweb.it portal , accessed on January 3, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ilquotidianoweb.it
  11. ↑ Andreas Ulrich: Deadly order . Article in Der Spiegel (35/2005) , accessed on June 13, 2011
  12. ↑ Wolfgang Krach: Three shots from behind . Article in Der Spiegel (7/1999) , accessed on June 13, 2011
  13. ↑ See also Carelli (article on Italian-language Wikipedia)
  14. ↑ Nicola Gratteri, Antonio Nicaso: Fratelli di Sangue . Edizioni Mondatori, 2010, ISBN 978-88-52-01325-6 ( e-book online )
  15. ↑ Jürgen Roth: Mafialand Germany , Eichborn Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2009, p. 60 f. ( online )
  16. ↑ Angelo Vecchio: 'Ndrangheta. La criminalità organizzata, tra chronaca e leggenda. Rapporti con Mafia, Camorra e Sacra Corona . Antares, 2002, pp. 20, 145
  17. ↑ Andreas Ulrich: The Angel Face - The Story of a Mafia Killer from Germany . Spiegelbuch Verlag, Goldmann 2007, first edition Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt 2005; Review: biography of a mafia killer from the Ruhr area , article on Giorgio Basile's biography in the portal kriminalakte.wordpress.com , accessed on January 26, 2013
  18. ↑ Das Engelsgesicht , article about the film of the same name in the portal filmportal.de , accessed on January 26, 2013
  19. ↑ Schiavonea - an old fishing village in summer fever , article describing summer tourism in Schiavonea in the portal im-parkschloesschen.de , accessed on January 26, 2013
  20. ^ Gennaro Ivan Gattuso: Se uno nasce quadrato non muore tondo . Rizzoli, Milan 2007, ISBN 978-88-58-60782-4 ( online )
  21. ↑ Sebastian Fischer: Cataldo Cozza: No ado about much . Article from October 12, 2012 in the rheinfussball.de portal , accessed on March 31, 2015

Coordinates: 39 ° 39 ′ 3 ″  N , 16 ° 32 ′ 25 ″  E