Riace
Sign in to saveRiace (Calabrian: ) is a comune (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Reggio Calabria in the Italian region of Calabria, located about south of Catanzaro and about northeast of Reggio Calabria. Riace borders the municipalities of Camini and Stignano.
Key facts
- Italian comune.name
- Riace
- Italian comune.official_name
- Comune di Riace
- Italian comune.image_skyline
- Riace paese.JPG
- Italian comune.image_shield
- Riace-Stemma.svg
- Italian comune.pushpin_map
- Italy Calabria#Italy
- Italian comune.region
- Calabria
- Italian comune.metropolitan_city
- Reggio Calabria (RC)
- Italian comune.mayor
- Antonio Trifoli
- Italian comune.area_total_km2
- 16.24
- Italian comune.population_total
- 2,343
- Italian comune.population_as_of
- 30 November 2016
- Italian comune.population_demonym
- Riacesi
- Italian comune.elevation_m
- 300
- Italian comune.saint
- Saints Cosmas and Damian
- Italian comune.postal_code
- 89040
- Italian comune.area_code
- 0964
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Riace (Calabrian: ) is a comune (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Reggio Calabria in the Italian region of Calabria, located about south of Catanzaro and about northeast of Reggio Calabria. Riace borders the municipalities of Camini and Stignano.
== Art == thumb|left|Feast of Saints Cosmas and Damian in 2010. Riace is notable as the place where the Bronzi di Riace (Riace bronzes), bronze statues of warriors, were found in the sea in 1972. These Ancient Greek sculptures can be seen in the Museo Nazionale della Magna Grecia (National Museum of Magna Graecia, i.e. the colonies of Greater Greece) in Reggio Calabria.