Locri is an Italian town in the metropolitan city of Reggio Calabria in Calabria. Cultural and religious center of the Lòcride area. The history of Locri is closely linked to the history of two other centers that arose in the surrounding area: Locri Epizefiri, a polis of Magna Graecia founded in the seventh century BC, and Gerace, a medieval city built in the ninth century.
After the Roman conquest of Locri Epizephiri and following both the Saracen and Turkish raids and the plague of malaria, the site was gradually abandoned and the inhabitants moved to the safer hills of the hinterland where Gerace rose. In the 19th century, with the return of the population to the coastal areas and thanks also to the advent of the railway, the town of Gerace Marina developed, a hamlet belonging to the municipality of Gerace.
Gerace Marina gained more and more importance with the transfer, from Gerace, of some important administrative and commercial structures, including the Court and the Banca Popolare in 1880, until it became an independent municipality in 1905. To give further impetus were the birth and development of important commercial and industrial activities: for example, the Officine Meccaniche Calabresi (OMC), in the early 1930s, employed 200 workers. In 1934 the municipality of Gerace Marina assumed the current name of Locri.
Locri
Address: Viale Matteotti, 152, 89044
Phone: 0964 391406
Site:
http://comune.locri.rc.itLocation inserted by
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