Cosenza - useful informations about Cosenza and its district

Cosenza is situated between a circle of necks, under the blow of the Sila turns to Tirreno where the river Busento meets in the Crati. The zone is mainly mountainous with forests of conifers and bulky cultivation of cedars, grapefruit, lemons, orange, mandarins, figs, chinotti, olive groves and vine. In town, to visit, square Campanella that divides the historical town and that news, the church of San Domenico was founded in 1448 and remaked in XVIII century, the Duomo from the gothic-cistercensi shapes, the square XV Marzo in front of the garden of the town Villa, San Francesco of Assisi important monastic complex, the Castello Domina in the neck Pancrazio, the convent San Francesco of Paola. Country shows are, to Montalo Uffugo, "u Sarracinu" that is the carnival, representationof the battle between Saracen and Montaltesi. It deserves a trip also the citizen of Paola, situated to the slopes of the coastal chain, with its long beach of sand; Scalea, ancient village with medieval restive is a inportant seaside center; Castrovillari between width and squared roads and ancient fortifications of the Normen; Cassano to the Jonio situated between the band pedemontana of the plain of the Sybaris from Pollino; Trebisacce characterized from a high part more ancient with rests of the city wall anf from a village on the sea with a lively port and tourist activity; Rossano situated above the level of the sea has a strong religious role for its seven basiliani monasteries destination of of a lot believing; Cirò Marina agricultural and seaside center of the ionica coast. Gastronomic speciality the cervellate, the capocolli of the Cosentino, the mùstica, the licurdia and the chine lesagne.