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History Museum Military Brigade Catanzaro

It is located in the town of Catanzaro in the Park "Biodiversity Mediterranean" is a specialist museum devoted to the Brigade Catanzaro which houses weapons, uniforms, documents, maps and other memorabilia used in the different war from the Napoleonic period to World War II .The MUSMA includes, among the weapons on display, an interesting collection of Vetterli rifles, rifles with which the department was created in Italy, then, land mines, machine guns, pistols (Beretta, and Mauser Parabellum), guns rotation, hand grenades and grenades, bayonets. There are also swords, daggers and knives of production typical of Calabria.The museum contains various decorations and awards including the prestigious Legion of Honor, from the Napoleonic era, and the contemporary teaching of the Iron Crown.In the collection are mainly the fascist propaganda posters.

The Cavatore

The monumental fountain Cavatore designed and built by Giuseppe Rite, the sculptor whose work traces the origins of contemporary Calabria.On the plot, next to the church is the Monumento al Cavatore (Monument carrier), the work of Alberto Sparapani of 1983 , 11 meters long and weighing 60 tons, fully marble and characterized by a bas-relief sculpture that tells the story of the marble work by the carriers.

Park of the Mediterranean Biodiversity

is a park located in the town of Catanzaro dedicated to the flora and fauna typical of the Mediterranean area.The botanical garden has many versions of the characteristics of plants and shrubs Mediterranean climate directly treated by the Agricultural School is located within the park.The botanical garden covers an area of 114,200 Italian m2 and is located about 100 m above sea level.

Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ

is a major feast of the ' Catholic Church's liturgical year.It is celebrated on the Thursday after the Feast of the Holy Trinity.Recalls, in a less charged circumstances liturgy, the liturgy of the Lord's Supper Mass of Holy Thursday.It was established the September 8th 1264 by Pope Urban IV, the Bull Transiturus de hoc mundo after the miracle of Bolsena, Orvieto preserves promulgated by the miracle, but was born in Belgium in 1246 as a celebration of the diocese of Liege.Its purpose was to celebrate the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist.The introduction of this feast in the Christian calendar was primarily a woman, Sister Juliana of Cornillon, an Augustinian nun lived in the first half of the thirteenth century. As a youth he had a vision of the Church in the guise of a full moon, but with a dark spot, indicating the lack of a holiday.

Politeama Theatre

located in the historic center, was opened in 2002, designed by Paul Portuguese.It occupies the space where he was the eponymous film and theater built in the thirties and a nearby covered market in the same period.The stage is one of the most advanced in Italy from the technological point of view and is the "heart" of the theater: 22.30 m wide 20 m deep, has a height of 30 meters.The central hall in the shape of a horseshoe, which is articulated around the building, continues the tradition of Italian classical theater.The space available is 53,000 m3 and 5,700 m2.

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