Vibo Marina
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Vibo Marina is a town in the comune (municipality) of Vibo Valentia (a fraction) in the Calabria region (Southern Italy), opposite the Tyrrhenian Sea. It is an important industrial area in the economy of the Vibo Valentia province. Here there is an important commercial and tourist harbour for the petrol distribution, fish selling (especially tuna), Aeolian Islands sea connection, etc. There are many industries for the manufacturing of cement and oil. Sit in Santa Eufemia Bay, it's near Pizzo and Bivona. Other iportant cities near Vibo Marina are Vibo Valentia, Lamezia Terme and Tropea. Its population it's about of 10,000 people.
[edit] History
In the III century B.C. in the place where now is placed Vibo Marina there was a Roman harbour made on demand by Agathocles the tyrant of Syracuse. The installation of the harbour goes from the caste of Bivona to the high part of Vibo Marina, where a Roman manor was founded in the XX A.D. century. Vibo Marina was originally called Porto Santa Venere (Santa Venere Harbour). A legend tells that the local fishermen discovered on the sandy shore a statue of Santa Venere. In the 1928 A.D. the name was changed in Vibo Marina.
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