Scalea

Scalea is a town and comune in the province of Cosenza in the Calabria region of southern Italy.

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Scalea is a town located in the Calabria region of southern Italy, specifically in the province of Cosenza. It serves as a local municipality (comune) within this southern Italian area.

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Italian comune.name: Scalea
Italian comune.official_name: Comune di Scalea
Italian comune.native_name: Greek:
Italian comune.image_skyline: Scalea_Centro_Storico.jpg
Italian comune.image_shield: scalea-Stemma.png
Italian comune.shield_size: 65px
Italian comune.region: Calabria
Italian comune.province: Cosenza (CS)
Italian comune.mayor: Giacomo Perrotta
Italian comune.area_total_km2: 22
Italian comune.population_total: 10429
Italian comune.population_as_of: 2007
Italian comune.population_demonym: Scaleoti
Italian comune.elevation_m: 25
Italian comune.saint: Holy Virgin of Mount Carmel
Italian comune.day: July 16
Italian comune.postal_code: 87029
Italian comune.area_code: 0985

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Wikidata facts

Official name: Scalea
Population: 11246
Area: 22.56
Elevation: 25
Official website: www.comune.scalea.cs.it
Image: Scalea vue generale.JPG
Dialing code: 0985
Licence plate code: CS

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postal code: 87029
Commons category: Scalea
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Scalea is a town and comune in the province of Cosenza in the Calabria region of southern Italy.

The old city sits within a preserved set of ancient walls on the heights. The interior of the old city is an intricate maze of stairs, alleys, wide streets and plazas, support beams, and arches. One of the defining characteristics of the historic center is "suppuorti": wooden floors built above the alleyways, born out of the need for defensibility and for growth in dense limited space.