Albidona
Comune in Calabria, Italy
Location of Albidona
39°55′N 16°28′E / 39.917°N 16.467°E / 39.917; 16.467
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Albidona (Albidonese: Albdòn) is a town and comune in the province of Cosenza in the Calabria region of southern Italy. It is located between the Ionian Sea and the mountains of Pollino National Park, at 11 km from the sea and 18 km from the mountains.
History
Ancient historians Lycophron and Strabo report that Albidona was founded on the ruins of Leutarnia, an old and large city of Greater Greece by the fortune-teller Calchas, returning from the Trojan War. The oldest historical information about Albidona dates actually from around the year 1000.
Main sights
- Albidona's Tower: is an old tower built in the 16th century by Don Pedro Álvarez de Toledo to defend the Ionian coastlines by the Saracens. It is placed on a marine hill and is called also Tower of Monks because the tower was owned to the monks in the 17th century. Today it is owned to a private family.
- Mostarico: is a mountain high 743 m, that has a beautiful landscape towards the Gulf of Taranto and Plain of Sibari.
- Church of San Michele Arcangelo
- Church of Sant'Antonio di Padova
- Church of San Rocco
- Church of Madonna della Pietà
- Church of Madonna del Cafaro
- War memorial (Monumento ai Caduti di tutte le guerre): is the first memorial war erected in Calabria. Built by the sculptor M. Pelletti, it was erected in 1966. In 2004 the memorial was restored and the original marble pedestal was replaced by a boulder, which supports a statue of "Milite Ignoto".
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- Acquaformosa
- Acquappesa
- Acri
- Aiello Calabro
- Aieta
- Albidona
- Alessandria del Carretto
- Altilia
- Altomonte
- Amantea
- Amendolara
- Aprigliano
- Belmonte Calabro
- Belsito
- Belvedere Marittimo
- Bianchi
- Bisignano
- Bocchigliero
- Bonifati
- Buonvicino
- Calopezzati
- Caloveto
- Campana
- Canna
- Cariati
- Carolei
- Carpanzano
- Casali del Manco
- Cassano all'Ionio
- Castiglione Cosentino
- Castrolibero
- Castroregio
- Castrovillari
- Celico
- Cellara
- Cerchiara di Calabria
- Cerisano
- Cervicati
- Cerzeto
- Cetraro
- Civita
- Cleto
- Colosimi
- Corigliano-Rossano
- Cosenza
- Cropalati
- Crosia
- Diamante
- Dipignano
- Domanico
- Fagnano Castello
- Falconara Albanese
- Figline Vegliaturo
- Firmo
- Fiumefreddo Bruzio
- Francavilla Marittima
- Frascineto
- Fuscaldo
- Grimaldi
- Grisolia
- Guardia Piemontese
- Lago
- Laino Borgo
- Laino Castello
- Lappano
- Lattarico
- Longobardi
- Longobucco
- Lungro
- Luzzi
- Maierà
- Malito
- Malvito
- Mandatoriccio
- Mangone
- Marano Marchesato
- Marano Principato
- Marzi
- Mendicino
- Mongrassano
- Montalto Uffugo
- Montegiordano
- Morano Calabro
- Mormanno
- Mottafollone
- Nocara
- Oriolo
- Orsomarso
- Paludi
- Panettieri
- Paola
- Papasidero
- Parenti
- Paterno Calabro
- Pedivigliano
- Piane Crati
- Pietrafitta
- Pietrapaola
- Plataci
- Praia a Mare
- Rende
- Rocca Imperiale
- Roggiano Gravina
- Rogliano
- Rose
- Roseto Capo Spulico
- Rota Greca
- Rovito
- San Basile
- San Benedetto Ullano
- San Cosmo Albanese
- San Demetrio Corone
- San Donato di Ninea
- San Fili
- San Giorgio Albanese
- San Giovanni in Fiore
- San Lorenzo Bellizzi
- San Lorenzo del Vallo
- San Lucido
- San Marco Argentano
- San Martino di Finita
- San Nicola Arcella
- San Pietro in Amantea
- San Pietro in Guarano
- San Sosti
- San Vincenzo La Costa
- Sangineto
- Sant'Agata di Esaro
- Santa Caterina Albanese
- Santa Domenica Talao
- Santa Maria del Cedro
- Santa Sofia d'Epiro
- Santo Stefano di Rogliano
- Saracena
- Scala Coeli
- Scalea
- Scigliano
- Serra d'Aiello
- Spezzano Albanese
- Spezzano della Sila
- Tarsia
- Terranova da Sibari
- Terravecchia
- Torano Castello
- Tortora
- Trebisacce
- Vaccarizzo Albanese
- Verbicaro
- Villapiana
- Zumpano
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