Cosenza

Cosenza is a city within the Calabria region of Southern Italy. The municipal population is of round 70,000, however the urban place counts over 268,000 inhabitants. It is the capital of the Province of Cosenza, which has a populace of round 735,000. The demonym of Cosenza is cosentino in Italian and Cosentian in English. The ancient metropolis is the seat of the Cosentian Academy, the second academy of philosophical and literary studies to be based inside the Kingdom of Naples and one of the oldest in Europe.

At the moment, the city remains a cultural hub in Southern Italy, with several museums, theatres, libraries and the University of Calabria. The historic Consentia, capital of the Italic tribe of the Bruttii, changed into a bulwark of the Italic human beings against the Hellenic impacts of the Ionian colonies. It became on this province that the Battle of Pandosia turned into fought, in which a small Italic military composed of Bruttii and Lucanians defeated Alexander the Great's uncle, Alexander of Epirus. Over the centuries, Cosenza maintained a unique character, which marked it out among the cities of the location.