Italo Falcomatà Explained

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.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Reggio: chi è stato Italo Falcomatà, il sindaco della "primavera reggina" [BIOGRAFIA]]. strettoweb.com. Loria. Danilo. Italian. Reggio: who was Italo Falcomatà, the mayor of the "spring of Reggio Calabria" [BIOGRAPHY]. 25 July 2015.