Comune di Tropea
Municipal coat of arms
Country	Italy
Region	Calabria
Province	Vibo Valentia (VV)
Mayor	Francesco Mario Sammarco (since April 4, 2005)
Elevation	60 m
Area	3.2 km²
Population
- Total (as of December 31, 2004)	6,922
- Density	2,281/km²
Time zone	CET, UTC+1
Coordinates	38°41′N 15°54′E
Gentilic	Tropeani (dialectal: Trupani)
Dialing code	0963
Postal code	89861
Frazioni	Marina
Patron	St. Madonna of Romania
- Day	March 27
Website: www.comune.tropea.vv.it

Tropea is also a village in the prefecture of Arcadia in Greece, see by the alternative name of Tropaia

Church on an Island in Tropea

Tropea is a municipality located within the province of Vibo Valentia, in Calabria (southern Italy). Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (700x906, 338 KB) it: Stemma del Comune di Tropea (Provincia di Vibo Valentia). ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Italy. ... The Regions of Italy were granted a degree of regional autonomy in the 1948 constitution, which states that the constitutions role is: to recognize, protect and promote local autonomy, to ensure that services at the State level are as decentralized as possible, and to adapt the principles and laws... Calabria (Latin: Bruttium or Brutium), is a region in southern Italy which occupies the toe of the Italian peninsula south of Naples. ... In Italy, the province (in Italian: provincia) is an administrative division of an intermediate level, between municipality (comune) and region (Regione). ... Vibo Valentia (It. ... April 4 is the 94th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (95th in leap years). ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... December 31 is the 365th day of the year (366th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Time zones of Europe: Light colours indicate countries not observing daylight saving Central European Time (CET) is one of the names of the time zone that is 1 hour ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. ... Central European Time West Africa Time British Summer Time* Irish Summer Time* Western European Summer Time* Category: ... A demonym or gentilic is a word that denotes the members of a people or the inhabitants of a place. ... Here are a list of area codes in Italy. ... A frazione, in Italy, is the name given in administrative law to a type of territorial subdivision of a comune; for other subdivisions, see municipio, circoscrizione, quartiere. ... March 27 is the 86th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (87th in leap years). ... Arcadia or Arkadía (Greek Αρκαδία; see also List of traditional Greek place names) is a region of Greece in the Peloponnesus. ... Tropaia (Τρόπαια) is a municipality in Arcadia, Greece. ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1600x1067, 892 KB) Church on an island, Tropea, Italy. ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1600x1067, 892 KB) Church on an island, Tropea, Italy. ... Vibo Valentia (It. ... Calabria (Latin: Bruttium or Brutium), is a region in southern Italy which occupies the toe of the Italian peninsula south of Naples. ...

The town is a famous bathing place located situated on a reef, in the gulf of St. Euphemia connected with the mainland by a narrow strip in the Tyrrhenian Sea, toward the south with respect to Vibo Valentia and northward with respect to Ricadi and Capo Vaticano. Tyrrhenian Sea. ... Vibo Valentia is a town and comune (municipality) in the Calabria region of southern Italy, near the Tyrrhenian Sea. ... Ricadi is a municipality located within the Province of Vibo Valentia (license plate is VV), in Calabria the most southern region of the Italian peninsula, lies between the Ionian Sea to east and the Tyrrhenian Sea to west. ... Cape Vatican Capo Vaticano is a wide bathing place of the Municipality of Ricadi in Calabria, Italy. ...

Ecclesiastical history

Nicotera and Tropea is a Roman Catholic suffragan diocese of the archbishopric of Reggio di Calabria. A bishop is an ordained person who holds a specific position of authority in any of a number of Christian churches. ...

The beach of Tropea.

Nicotera, the ancient Medama, is a city of the Province of Catanzaro, in Calabria, Italy; it was destroyed by the earthquake of 1783. Its first known bishop was Proculus, to whom, with others, a letter of pope St. Gregory the Great was written in 599. With the exception of Sergius (787), none of its bishops is known earlier than 1392. Under Bishop Charles Pinti, the city was pillaged by the Ottoman Turks. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1280x960, 441 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Tropea Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to create... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1280x960, 441 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Tropea Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to create... Nicotera is a comune (municipality) in the province of Vibo Valentia, Calabria, Italy. ... Catanzaro (It. ... Saint Gregory I, or Gregory the Great (called the Dialogist in Eastern Orthodoxy) (circa 540 - March 12, 604) was pope of the Catholic Church from September 3, 590 until his death. ...

In 1818, it was united on equal terms (aeque principaliter) with the Diocese of Tropea. It has a beautiful cathedral, restored after its destruction by the earthquake of 1783. Here the Greek Rite was formerly used. Only three bishops before the Norman conquest are known; the first, Joannes, is referred to the year 649; among its other prelates was Nicolò Acciapori (1410), an eminent statesman.

The diocese had in the early 20th century 72 parishes, with 78,000 inhabitants, a Franciscan house, and a house of the Sisters of Charity. The Order of Friars Minor and other Franciscan movements are disciples of Saint Francis of Assisi. ...

The castle

ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (3264x2448, 3078 KB) Description: Castell in Tropea Source: selbst Date: 7. ... ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (3264x2448, 3078 KB) Description: Castell in Tropea Source: selbst Date: 7. ...

Notable people

It is the birthplace of :

• the painter Spanò
• the anatomists Pietro and Paolo Voiani
• the philosopher Pasquale Galluppi
• actor Raf Vallone (1916-2002) IMDb
• American mobster Albert Anastasia

Pasquale Galluppi Pasquale Galluppi (2 April 1770, Tropea, Calabria-13 December 1846 Naples) was an Italian philosopher, from 1831 he was a professor at the University of Naples. ... Albert Anastasia (born Umberto Anastasio) (September 26, 1902–October 25, 1957), also known as the Mad Hatter and Lord High Executioner, was a Mafia boss chiefly remembered for running the contract-killing syndicate known as Murder, Inc. ...

Sources and external links

• Pro Loco Tropea - Turistic Association & IAT point (Touristic's Information & Assistance)
• This article incorporates text from the public-domain Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913. [1]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Tropea

• Tropea .biz
• Official site
• Vacanze Tropea
• Museo Antichi Mestieri
• ItalianVisits.com

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Calabria · Communes of the province of Vibo Valentia

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