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Rocca di Neto is a town and comune of the province of Crotone in the Calabria region of southern Italy. It is crossed by the Neto river from which it takes its current name; until 1863 it was known as Rocca Ferdinandea in honour of king Ferdinand I of Two Sicilies .
Rocca Pia: 730 066080 Rocca di Botte: 639 066081 Rocca di Cambio: 485 066082 Rocca di Mezzo: 1,530 066083 Roccacasale: 189 066084 Roccaraso: 1,684 066085 San Benedetto dei Marsi: 4,061 066086 San Benedetto in Perillis: 137 066087 San Demetrio ne' Vestini: 1,694 066088 San Pio delle Camere: 579 066089 Sante Marie: 1,310 066090 Sant'Eusanio ...
The history of Roccasecca is tightly bound to its strategic position, a "dry rocca" at the entrance to two narrow defiles that give access to the Valle di Comino below the slopes of Monte Asprano, whose elevation at 553 metres (1,814 ft) provides a natural position to control the wide Valle del Liri. Remains of archaic perimeter walling attest ...
The Castle of Rocca Calascio is a mountaintop fortress or rocca in the municipality of Calascio, in the Province of L'Aquila, Abruzzo, Italy. At an elevation of around 1,460 metres (4,790 ft), the castle is the highest fortress in the Apennines .
Embraced by the warm, crystalline waters of the Tyrrhenian Sea, just off the west coast of Italy’s Tuscan shoreline, Isola d’Elba is Italy’s lettera d'amore to the Mediterranean sun and sea.
The town of Roccaraso dates back to around 975 AD, and is located near the Rasinus stream, from which some believe it took its original name, Rocca Rasini. It developed as a farming village, inhabited by herdsmen and craftsmen, which guaranteed its people a peaceful and prosperous life.
The toponym "Palazzolo" or "Palazzola" (the latter more recent) [3] is related to the suggestive belief birthed in the mind of some medieval men that the remains of the rock mausoleum of a Roman consul located on the rock face near the convent had belonged to a consular palace located along the via Sacra that led from the via Appia Antica near Ariccia to the top of Monte Cavo, site of the ...
Billionaire Elon Musk said on Thursday many federal government agencies must be eliminated as part of President Donald Trump's push to radically overhaul the U.S. government. The comments came as ...