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Key facts
- Country
- Italy
- Region
- Calabria
- Province
- Cosenza (CS)
- Frazioni
- Marina di Rocca Imperiale
- Mayor
- Giuseppe Ranù
- Total
- 55.03 km (21.25 sq mi)
- Elevation
- 199 m (653 ft)
- Density
- 60.08/km (155.6/sq mi)
- Demonym
- Rocchesi
- Time zone
- UTC+1 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+2 ( CEST )
- Dialing code
- 0981
- Patron saint
- Madonna della Nova
- Saint day
- 2 July
- Website
- Official website
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- comune of Italy
- Official name
- Rocca Imperiale
- Demonym
- rocchesi
- Country
- Italy
- Located in
- Province of Cosenza
- Population
- 3204
- Area
- 55.03
- Elevation
- 176
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Shares border with
- Montegiordano
- Official website
- www.comune.roccaimperiale.cs.it
- Image
- Rocca Imperiale - panorama .jpg
- Dialing code
- 0981
- Licence plate code
- CS
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- postal code
- 87074
- Commons category
- Rocca Imperiale
- member of
- The most beautiful villages in Italy
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Encyclopedic overview
Rocca Imperiale is a town and comune in the province of Cosenza in the Calabria region of southern Italy. Rocca Imperiale is located in the middle of the arc that surrounds the Gulf of Taranto and sits 4 km away from the sea on a hill at the foothills of the Apennine Mountains, which stretches out to the shore that was once the ancient Siritide plain. It is one of I Borghi più belli d'Italia ("The most beautiful villages of Italy").
Main sights include the Castle of Frederick II of Hohenstaufen (Italian: Castello Svevo), Rocca Imperiale is the name of the town (meaning "imperial rock") the Chiesa Madre, the Monastery, and the wax museum.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Rocca Imperiale” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.