Italo Falcomatà

Italo Falcomatà (1943 – 2001) was an Italian politician and school and university teacher. Three times mayor of Reggio Calabria, from 1993 to 2001, 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.