Catanzaro (It. Provincia di Catanzaro) is a province in the Calabria region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Catanzaro. In Italy, the Province (in Italian: provincia) is an administrative division of an intermediate level, between municipality (comune) and region (regione). ... Calabria, formerly Bruttium, is a region in southern Italy which occupies the toe of the Italian peninsula south of Naples. ... Catanzaro was at one time the lace capital of the world with a large silkworm breeding, it produced all the laces and linens used in the Vatican. ...
It has an area of 2,391 sq km, and a total population of 369,578 (2001). There are 80 communes in the province (source: Italian institute of statistics Istat, see this link (http://www.upinet.it/indicatore.asp?id_statistiche=6)).
External link
Provincia di Catanzaro homepage (in Italian) (http://www.provincia.catanzaro.it)
Catanzaro, chief town of the region Calabria, rises on a series of necks that appear on the Ionio.
All year is perfect to visit the province: in autumn when the forests of beeches dye of red, in winter when the spacious pastures are covered of snow and in the spring-summer period when the cost is illuminated from a clear and blue sea.
The economy of the province is based essentially on the agriculture and on the commerce, even if very developed are also the fishing, the breeding and the handicraft activity.
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