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Catanzaro

The city of Catanzo was founded in the 9h century by the Byzantines to control the mountain pass between the Ionian and Tyrrhenian Sea. Now, Catanzaro is a mid-sized city, whose economy is buoyed-up by government employment and spending, and a university. However, for centuries starting in the 11th century, Catanzaro was involved in large scale and sophisticated silkworm breeding activities, and was the lace and linen capital of the world, supplying the Vatican and many other royal and not so royal courts around the world.

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	Calabria

	Calabria has been immortalized in the drawings of Edward Lear who, traveling through on a donkey in 1847, was transfixed by the “horror and magnificence” of its savage landscape. Along with Sicily, Puglia and Basilicata, Calabria was part of Magna Grecia. Later on centuries of rule by Naples led to the marginalization of Calabria. Nowadays Calabria has a terrifying reputation due to the "ndrandheta", the ferocious first cousin to the Mafia whose activities are constant menace.


	Catanzaro The city of Catanzo was founded in the 9h century by the Byzantines to control the mountain pass between the Ionian and Tyrrhenian Sea. Now, Catanzaro is a mid-sized city, whose economy is buoyed-up by government employment and spending, and a university. However, for centuries starting in the 11th century, Catanzaro was involved in large scale and sophisticated silkworm breeding activities, and was the lace and linen capital of the world, supplying the Vatican and many other royal and not so royal courts around the world.

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