Gerace
Sign in to saveGerace (; , also known as ) is a town and comune in the Metropolitan City of Reggio Calabria, Calabria, southern Italy. Gerace is located some inland from Locri, yet the latter town and the sea can be seen from Gerace's perch atop a vertical rock. The town stands on a hill formed of conglomerates of sea fossils from 60 million years ago. It is one of I Borghi più belli d'Italia ("The most beautiful villages of Italy").
Key facts
- Italian comune.name
- Gerace
- Italian comune.official_name
- Città di Gerace
- Italian comune.native_name
- Griko:
- Italian comune.image_skyline
- Gerace Panorama.jpg
- Italian comune.image_caption
- Panorama of Gerace
- Italian comune.image_shield
- Gerace-Stemma uff.png
- Italian comune.region
- Calabria
- Italian comune.metropolitan_city
- Reggio Calabria (RC)
- Italian comune.mayor
- Giuseppe Pezzimenti
- Italian comune.area_total_km2
- 35
- Italian comune.population_total
- 2715
- Italian comune.population_as_of
- 31 December 2012
- Italian comune.population_demonym
- Geracesi
- Italian comune.elevation_m
- 500
- Italian comune.postal_code
- 89040
- Italian comune.area_code
- 0964
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Gerace (; , also known as ) is a town and comune in the Metropolitan City of Reggio Calabria, Calabria, southern Italy. Gerace is located some inland from Locri, yet the latter town and the sea can be seen from Gerace's perch atop a vertical rock. The town stands on a hill formed of conglomerates of sea fossils from 60 million years ago. It is one of I Borghi più belli d'Italia ("The most beautiful villages of Italy").
==History== The name of the city derives from the Greek hierax (ἱέραξ) ("sparrowhawk"). According to a legend, the inhabitants of the coast, fleeing from a Saracen attack in 915 CE, were led by a sparrowhawk to the mountains commanding the area of Locri, and here they founded the city. Archeological findings showed that the area was in fact inhabited since the Neolithic Age; also traces of Sicel presence have been found.