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Riace
Sign in to saveRiace (Calabrian: ) is a comune (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Reggio Calabria in the Italian region of Calabria, located about south of Catanzaro and about northeast of Reggio Calabria. Riace borders the municipalities of Camini and Stignano.
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Vinony's link graph records 121 inbound references to Riace, and connects out to region of Italy, Italy and Greek.
The entry is geolocated on the map in city_region, across 2 mapped points.
It is catalogued under topics including Cities and towns in Calabria, Municipalities of the Metropolitan City of Reggio Calabria and Vallata dello Stilaro.
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Key facts
- Italian comune.name
- Riace
- Italian comune.official_name
- Comune di Riace
- Italian comune.image_skyline
- Riace paese.JPG
- Italian comune.image_shield
- Riace-Stemma.svg
- Italian comune.pushpin_map
- Italy Calabria#Italy
- Italian comune.region
- Calabria
- Italian comune.metropolitan_city
- Reggio Calabria (RC)
- Italian comune.mayor
- Antonio Trifoli
- Italian comune.area_total_km2
- 16.24
- Italian comune.population_total
- 2,343
- Italian comune.population_as_of
- 30 November 2016
- Italian comune.population_demonym
- Riacesi
- Italian comune.elevation_m
- 300
- Italian comune.saint
- Saints Cosmas and Damian
- Italian comune.postal_code
- 89040
- Italian comune.area_code
- 0964
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- comune of Italy
- Official name
- Riace
- Demonym
- riacesi
- Country
- Italy
- Located in
- Metropolitan City of Reggio Calabria
- Population
- 1694
- Area
- 16.24
- Elevation
- 300
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Shares border with
- Stignano
- Official website
- www.comune.riace.rc.it
- Image
- Riace paese.JPG
- Dialing code
- 0964
- Licence plate code
- RC
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- Commons category
- Riace
- postal code
- 89040
- native label
- Riace
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Art
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Riace (Calabrian: ) is a comune (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Reggio Calabria in the Italian region of Calabria, located about south of Catanzaro and about northeast of Reggio Calabria. Riace borders the municipalities of Camini and Stignano.
== Art == thumb|left|Feast of Saints Cosmas and Damian in 2010. Riace is notable as the place where the Bronzi di Riace (Riace bronzes), bronze statues of warriors, were found in the sea in 1972. These Ancient Greek sculptures can be seen in the Museo Nazionale della Magna Grecia (National Museum of Magna Graecia, i.e. the colonies of Greater Greece) in Reggio Calabria.
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