Brancaleone est une commune italienne de la province de Reggio de Calabre, dans la région Calabre.
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Brancaleone is a comune in the Province of Reggio Calabria in the Italian region Calabria, located about 110 kilometres southwest of Catanzaro and about 65 kilometres southeast of Reggio Calabria. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 3,923 and an area of 35.9 square kilometres.
Brancaleone borders the following municipalities: Bruzzano Zeffirio, Palizzi, Staiti.
Famed Italian poet and novelist Cesare Pavese was exiled here in 1935. Portions of his novel The Moon and the Bonfires refer to his time spent here.
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Bruzzano Zeffirio is a comune in the Province of Reggio Calabria in the Italian region Calabria, located about 110 kilometres southwest of Catanzaro and about 40 kilometres southeast of Reggio Calabria.
Its territory is included in the Aspromonte National Park.
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Staiti is a village and comune in the Metropolitan City of Reggio Calabria in the region of Calabria in southern Italy, located about 110 kilometres southwest of Catanzaro and about 35 kilometres southeast of Reggio Calabria. With a population of 161, it is the least populous municipality in Calabria.
Staiti borders the municipalities of Africo, Bova, Brancaleone, Bruzzano Zeffirio, and Palizzi.
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Ferruzzano is a comune in the Province of Reggio Calabria in the Italian region of Calabria, located about 110 kilometres southwest of Catanzaro and about 40 kilometres east of Reggio Calabria. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 863 and an area of 19.1 square kilometres.
Ferruzzano borders the following municipalities: Bianco, Bruzzano Zeffirio, Caraffa del Bianco, Sant'Agata del Bianco. It is the home town of Giuseppe Zangara, the man who tried to assassinate Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
On 23 October 1907 a magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck Calabria, at a depth of 33.0 km. The epicentral area included Ferruzzano, where many houses collapsed almost completely, and 158 persons, or 8% of its population, were killed. Ferruzano had been hit as well in the 1905 Calabria earthquake. Several aftershocks followed: on 17 November 1907 Ferruzzano was hit by an earthquake again, as well as on 23 January 1908. New houses built after the earthquakes of 1905 and 1907 resisted the shocks of the 1908 Messina earthquake.
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