Lamezia Terme

Lamezia Terme generally referred to as Lamezia, is an Italian metropolis and comune of 70,452 population inside the province of Catanzaro in the Calabria area. Lamezia is placed on the jap border of the coastal undeniable commonly known as Piana di Sant'Eufemia, which turned into created by way of drying a extensive marshy region. The municipality of Lamezia Terme was officially created on 4^th January 1968. Its territory includes the ones of the previous municipalities of Nicastro, Sambiase and Sant'Eufemia Lamezia.

Nicastro's origins hint returned to the 9th century, when Calabria turned into part of the Byzantine Empire, whilst a fort called Neo Castrum changed into created. A wonderful Benedictine abbey, St. Eufemia, turned into founded right here in 1062 through the Norman be counted Robert Guiscard. It became for a long term a fief of the Caracciolo own family and, later, to the D'Aquino. The city become almost destroyed after an earthquake in 1638, and the abbey was become wreck. The castle, constructed via the Normans and enlarged by means of Emperor Frederick II and the Angevine kings, crumbled down.