Villa San Giovanni

Villa San Giovanni is a town and comune in the province of Reggio Calabria, Calabria, southern Italy. In 2010 its population was 13,747. It is the main terminal of access to Sicily. On 25 April 2005 the President of the Republic had conferred upon it the title of "city".

Geography

It is located on the coast of Strait of Messina, facing the city of Messina across the narrow strait. The Punta Pezzo lies in the area and is the nearest point to Sicily. It contains a notable lighthouse. There are many neighborhoods : Acciarello, Cannitello, Pezzo and Piale.

History

In December 1908 a powerful earthquake killed 698 people in Villa San Giovanni, almost 10% of the then population.

The last decades of the sixteenth century saw the rise in the small coastal villages, as Cannitello and Pieces, inhabited mostly by sailors and fishermen. Further inland, at the current center of the Villa, there was a village called Blackwater. Later he also formed Piale and Acciarello. The coastal accelerated repopulation in the eighteenth century, the progressive decline of Fiumara di Muro, until the administrative reform implemented in 1806 by Giuseppe Bonaparte definitively abolished the feudal system and the Lordship of Fiumara disappeared. On 8 January 1676 he fought a naval battle between the Dutch and the French fleet in the waters of the Strait in front of Punta Pezzo, with a victorious outcome for the second. Probably the guns found in Pieces in 1902 were built in this battle. The plague of 1743 and the fire pit

Villa San Giovanni (Milan Metro)

Villa San Giovanni is a station on Line 1 of the Milan Metro. The station opened in 1964.

The station is located on the corner between Viale Monza and Via Vipacco, which is in the municipality of Milan. This is an underground station with 2 tracks in a single barrel.

Services

The station has:

Lift

Escalator

San Giovanni

San Giovanni, the Italian form of "Saint John", is a name that may refer to dozens of saints. It may also refer to several places (most of them in Italy) and religious buildings:

Places

France

Italy

San Giovanni (Rome Metro)

San Giovanni is an underground station on Line A of the Rome Metro opened in 1980. The station is located in Piazzale Appio at the beginning of Via Appia Nuova, beside the Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano, from which the station takes its name

With the extension of Line C, the station will become an interchange point in 2016. Work on the construction of that new line began May 21, 2007.

Located nearby

References

External links

Media related to Metropolitana di Roma linea A - San Giovanni at Wikimedia Commons