Bagnara Calabra

Bagnara Calabra is a comune municipality in the Province of Reggio Calabria in Calabria, southern Italy. It is located within the hills facing the Tyrrhenian Sea on the southern tip of the location, about one hundred kilometers southwest of Catanzaro and approximately 25 kilometers northeast of Reggio Calabria. The first prepared village for which we have historic evidence turned into round 1085 AD, with edification of S. Mary's V.G. And 12th Apostles Abbey Nullius ordered by means of Roger I of Sicily. Other historical assumptions supported with the aid of oblique proofs allow relationship much similarly returned, to being directly related with Mamertini sons of battle god Mars, following.

The First Punic War. Supporting this principle, historical coins with the likeness of Mars have been found and documented in this vicinity around 1800. Roman presence is historically tested by using the historic Via Capua Regium, additionally referred to as Via Popilia, constructed in 132 BC, thru Bagnara's territory. During the Roman technology, the village becomes known as Balnearum, at that point a thermal spring utilized by Romans. Others that Bagnara become based with the aid of Phoenicia around the eighth century BC, but there may be no archaeological evidence helping this concept. Since 1130 AD, Bagnara became a part of the Kingdom of Sicily hooked up by way of Roger II.