Cosenza information

Cosenza is a city in Calabria, located at the confluence of the Busento and Crathis rivers. The municipality, with a population of around 70,000, is at the centre of an urban area which counts almost 200,000 inhabitants. It is the capital of the homonymous Province of Cosenza, which has a population of about 730.000.
Because of its cultural past, the city was once known as the Athens of Calabria. The Cosentian Academy, for example, was one of the very first academies to be founded in Italy (1511). To this day, Cosenza remains an important cultural centre with several museums, theatres, numerous libraries, and the University of Calabria. (...) more....

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