Italo Falcomatà | |
Order: | 20th |
Office: | Mayor of Reggio Calabria |
Predecessor: | Giuseppe Reale |
Successor: | Giuseppe Scopelliti |
Birth Date: | 8 October 1943 |
Birth Place: | Reggio Calabria, Italy |
Death Place: | Reggio Calabria, Italy |
Death Cause: | Leukemia |
Nationality: | Italian |
Party: | Democrats of the Left (1998–2001) |
Otherparty: | Italian Communist Party (1970–1991), Democratic Party of the Left (1991–1998) |
Children: | Giuseppe Falcomatà |
Italo Falcomatà (8 October 1943 – 11 December 2001) was an Italian politician and school and university teacher. Three times mayor of Reggio Calabria, from 1993 to 2001,[1] under his guidance a period known as the Reggio Spring began. From 1970 to 1971, the city of Reggio was the scene of a popular uprising – known as the Moti di Reggio – against the government choice of Catanzaro as capital of the newly instituted Region of Calabria; afterwards there was a period of social and urban deterioration which lasted until the Reggio Spring began. His youngest child Giuseppe Falcomatà is the current mayor of Reggio since 2014.