page_title: Campora San Giovanni
section_title: Present day
hierarchical_section_title: Campora San Giovanni / History / Present day
caption_attribution_description: Italiano: Io sottoscritto Luigi Salvatore Vadacchino, utente di Wikipedia sotto il nome di Lodewijk Vadacchino, cedo l'immagine HPIM0659.jpg a Wikimedia Italia, sotto licenza CC-BY-SA, con il nome Campora San Giovanni 09 - Panarama Veraniego Nocturno.jpg. L'Immagine fotografica raffigura la mia cittadina natale di Campora San Giovanni, ovvero una sua panoramica al tramonto con uno scorcio di flora locale. Porgo come sempre i miei distintissimi saluti, con l'augurio che possiate venirmi a far visita. Vostro come sempre23:06, 16 giu 2009 (CEST)
context_page_description: Campora San Giovanni is a frazione of the comune of Amantea, in the province of Cosenza, Calabria, Italy, located close to the border with the province of Catanzaro.
context_section_description: The core of present-day Campora was divided until 1876 among the current city councils of Amantea, Aiello Calabro and Nocera Terinese. In 1877 began the first migrations from adjacent counties: Cleto, Nocera Terinese, Aiello Calabro, Belmonte Calabro, Lago, Longobardi, San Mango d'Aquino. Immigrants from Bavaria also arrived from the Austro-Hungarian Empire - among them, a few merchants or noblemen who had fallen into misfortune. One of these was Baron Johann-Paschalis von Tief (who Italianised his name to Pasquale Chieffa I in 1858), an aristocrat of Tyrolese origin who tried to recover the wealth lost by his ancestors. Working in viticulture in the area of the Savuto, he was able to make his fortune and to form the first nucleus of Campora San Giovanni, thanks also to the help of the two main landowners at the time: the marquises Cavallo and Mauri. 
  Over the following twenty years, new migratory waves from the interior came to the coast. In 1898, Amantea acquired the territory of Campora San Giovanni from its neighbours. The population participated actively in the First World War, and in the years of the Fascist regime, the territory had new reparations.
  By the time of the Second World War, many Camporeses left again to serve their homeland in the military. In 1943, the country was bombarded by the Allied forces; there are ruins of this bombardment in the Augurato neighbourhood. During their retreat, the Nazis murdered 50 Camporeses accused of treason, in order to show what fate might be expected by traitors. The town of Campora had a single partisano: Angelo Vadacchino, who fought in Florence and was confined to Prato, after feigning idiocy.
  As in all southern Italian locales in the 1950s and 1980s, many camporeses emigrated in search of work to Northern Italy, Venezuela and New Zealand; it is believed that approximately 7,000 people departed in fewer than 30 years.
  During the 1980s, there began an economic explosion of Campora San Giovanni that continued for an almost five-year period, with the development of hotel and marine structures, and the explosion of the red onion in several agricultural cooperatives. With the fall of the Wall of Berlin came the arrival of new migratory waves from Eastern Europe, with labourers coming for agriculture (women) and for the building sector (men). There is now an influx of small Chinese communities, Arabic-magrebines and Indians.
caption: Panorama summer nocturne of Campora San Giovanni, from the neighborhood of Mirabelli, of fishing in the night for anchovies.
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