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Catanzaro is an Italian city of 93,286 inhabitants, capital of the province of Calabria.
Catanzaro is known as the City between the two seas [2], since it is situated in Catanzaro isthmus, or narrow strip of land in Italy, as only 30 km away from the Tyrrhenian to the Ionian Sea. This lets you see, the neighborhoods north of the city in a few clear days, the Tyrrhenian, the Ionian Sea island of Stromboli and the Aeolian Islands.
Is at the heart of a densely populated, with an intense urban mobility, including some coastal municipalities, by Marina Sellia Soverato and some towns in the Sila for a total of 156,196 inhabitants.

Is steadily gaining the formation of a metropolitan area, already approved by the Region of Calabria, with the town of Lamezia Terme, which will include 10 municipalities and will lead to the creation of an integrated area that will extend from the Tyrrhenian to the Ionian coast, involving more than 200,000 inhabitants .
Historic capital of the ancient province of Calabria Ultra for over 200 years and home to the University "Magna Graecia", the second University of Calabria in the number of subscribers, the Ionian coast in the summer months from Catanzaro Soverato is subject to important tourist especially youth, to the presence of numerous recreational facilities.
Catanzaro is also a city of three hills that correspond to the three packages which are represented in the coat of arms on the hill of St. Tryphon (now St. Rocco), the hill of the Bishop (now Cathedral Square) and the Castle Hill (now St. John).
Finally, Catanzaro was formerly known as the City of the three "V", referring to three distinctive characteristics of the city, namely:
V San Vitaliano, patron saint;
V velvet as an important center of silk since the time of the Byzantines;
V-wind that constantly assailed by strong breezes from the Ionian Sea and the Sila.
"VVV" was the name by which they were identified on domestic and foreign velvets, damask and brocades from the city

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