Villa San Giovanni

Villa San Giovanni is a metropolis and comune in the province of Reggio Calabria, Calabria, southern Italy. In 2010 its population turned into 13,747. It is the primary terminal of get entry to to Sicily. On 25 April 2005 the President of the Republic had conferred upon it the identify of "city". On 28 December 1908 an effective earthquake in the Strait of Messina killed 698 human beings in Villa San Giovanni, nearly 10% of the then population.

The last decades of the 16^th century saw the upward push inside the small coastal villages, including Cannitello and Pezzo, inhabited in most cases by means of sailors and fishermen. Further inland, at the modern-day center of the Villa, there has been a village known as Fossa. Later got here Piale and Acciarello. The coastal repopulation improved the 18^th century progressive decline of Fiumara di Muro, till the executive reform applied in 1806 by Giuseppe Bonaparte definitively abolished the feudal system and the Lordship of Fiumara disappeared.