Paola, Italy

Paola, Italy

Infobox CityIT
img_coa = Paola (CS)-Stemma.gif
official_name = Comune di Paola


image_caption=
name= Paola
region = Calabria
province = Cosenza (CS)
elevation_m =94
area_total_km2 = 42
population_as_of = December 31, 2004
population_total = 16978
population_density_km2 = 404
timezone = CET, UTC+1
coordinates = coord|39|22|N|16|2|E
frazioni =
telephone = 0982
postalcode = 87027
gentilic =Paolani
saint = St. Francis of Paola
day = April 2 and May 4
mayor = Roberto Perrotta
website = [http://www.paola.asmenet.it/ www.paola.asmenet.it]
mapx =39.366
mapy=16.1

Paola is a town and "comune "in the province of Cosenza in the Calabria region of southern Italy.

Paola is the home of St. Francis of Paola and houses a Catholic sanctuary. It is also the place where Luisa Romano, a prominent musician and player of accordion in the italo-brazilian community, was born in 1939.

In the final days of WWII, while almost all the citizens of the city were hiding from the air raids by Allied bomber aeroplanes inside the Monastery of St. Francis of Paola, a iron-core 80 kg bomb fell right in the middle of the agglomeration, but didn't detonate, fact reputed as a miracle.


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