Gioia Tauro

Gioia Tauro is a comune in the province of Reggio Calabria, in Calabria, at the Tyrrhenian coast. It has an crucial port, located along the course connecting Suez to Gibraltar, one of the busiest maritime corridors in the world. Gioia Tauro has been continuously inhabited for extra than 2500 years. From approximately 400 BC or so it become inhabited by means of Greek colonists who referred to as it Matauros or Metauros. It changed into one of the smaller historical Greek facilities a number of the settlements in Southern Italy.

The remains are a touch in addition inland within the vintage town of Gioia Tauro on a rise overlooking the Tyrrhenian Sea. In the 1970s, Gioia Tauro turned into the primary centre for commercial development in Southern Italy, following a burst of violence in Reggio Calabria in 1970, signaling frustration over the significant authorities's forget about of the location. The creation of a massive steel plant and port facility changed into supposed to deliver income and jobs to Calabria. Until then Gioia Tauro have been a efficient and beautiful agricultural vicinity. Profitable farms and olive groves were expropriated and demolished.