Bova, Calabria

Bova is an Italian town in the province of Reggio Calabria in Calabria with 453 inhabitants (as at 31 December 2012).

Location and data

Bova is located 57 km southeast of Reggio Calabria. The place is situated on the southern slopes of the Aspromonte at the course of the river Amendolea. The neighboring municipalities are Africo, Bova Marina, Condofuri, Palizzi, Roghudi and Staiti.

History

The cathedral is mentioned in a papal bull from 1081 to 1084. The village is first mentioned in documents in the 11th century. In Bova also the Greek - Calabrian dialect is spoken.

Attractions

About the village are the ruins of a castle.

Directly below is the cathedral. The cathedral was destroyed in an earthquake in 1793 and then rebuilt. In the cathedral there are numerous references to the Byzantine period. From the time of the Normans are the outer walls.

Since October 2012, the multimedia exhibition " Calabria Contadina nelle immagini di Gerhard Rohlfs " ( is in the Palazzo Tuscano, the visitor center of the National Park Aspromonte ( Parco Nazionale dell'Aspromonte ) in Bova, " The peasant Calabria in the paintings of Gerhard Rohlfs ," edited by Antonio tanks Ella ) to see. The exhibition features photographs, among other things, which started the German linguist Gerhard Rohlfs in the 1920s during his field research trip to the study of Greek- Calabrian dialect.