Editing Crotone (section)

== Culture ==
===Museums===
[[File:Museo archeologico nazionale Crotone - Wikigita Calabria 2022 - f00.jpg|right|thumb|The National Archaeological Museum]]
Crotone hosts a national archaeological museum, a municipal museum, a municipal art gallery, and a provincial museum of contemporary art, as well as the Antiquarium di Torre Nao.
*National Archaeological Museum: founded in 1968, it is located on Risorgimento street, in the heart of the historic city center. The building consists of two floors and contains all of the most significant finds from the archaeological sites of the entire territory Crotone. In particular rich archaeological finds come from the [[Temple of Juno Lacinia (Crotone)|Sanctuary of Hera Lacinia]] site in [[Capo Colonna]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Comune di Crotone - Archaeology and Cultural Heritage| url=http://www.comune.crotone.it/flex/cm/pages/ServeBLOB.php/L/IT/IDPagina/4713#:~:text=National%20Archaeological%20Museum%3A%20founded%20in%201968%2C%20is%20located,the%20archaeological%20sites%20of%20the%20entire%20territory%20Crotone.|access-date=26 November 2020}}</ref>

===Sport===
[[F.C. Crotone]] is a [[Association football|football]] club in [[Serie C]]. The team was promoted to top flight Serie A for the first time in its history for the [[2016–17 Serie A|2016–17 season]], and after one year in [[Serie B]], was again promoted to play in Serie A for the [[2020–21 Serie A|2020–21 season]].

[[Achei Crotone]] is an [[American football]] club in Italy's 3rd division. It was established in 1989 and is considered one of the most storied teams in Italy.

===Сhurches===
'''Church of the Immaculate Conception''': the original construction of the [[Cathedral]] dates back to the 9th century. Initially it was dedicated to St. Dionysius, and later, around 1462–1463, to the Assumption of Saint Mary into heaven. During the centuries, the church was subject to various restoration, although in the 16th century the bishop A. Lucifero undertook its complete reconstruction, using materials removed from the ancient temple of Hera Lacinia. The interior of the church has three naves divided by pillars.<ref>{{cite web |title= Comune Crotone| url=http://www.comune.crotone.it/flex/cm/pages/ServeBLOB.php/L/IT/IDPagina/331|access-date=19 April 2021}}</ref>

The '''Cathedral''': in 1686, as attested by an existing marble plaque in the current church, on the old oratory a church was built and dedicated to the [[Mary, mother of Jesus|Blessed Virgin Mary]] by a group of lay people who had decided to give birth to a lay congregation in honour of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the [[Purgatory|Souls in Purgatory]], which was also called {{Lang|it|La Congregazione dei Plebei}} ("The Congregation of the Plebeians").
The [[façade]], which recalls in its features the sober and austere [[Neoclassical architecture|neoclassical]] style setting,  is a harmonious and unifying element. It has a portal with a single [[architrave]], surmounted by a stained glass window, depicting the Virgin, and two niches with statues, all topped by a [[Triangle|triangular]] gable and side [[Pinnacle|pinnacles]].<ref>{{cite web |title= Association "Itinerari" - Crotone, Church of the Immaculate Conception| url=http://crotone.itineraritaly.it/en/p512/church_of_the_immacolata|access-date=19 April 2021}}</ref>

=== Notable people ===
*[[Milo of Croton]] (6th century BCE), Olympic athlete
*[[Dameas of Croton]], sculptor who created the statue of Milo of Croton, which was placed at [[Olympia, Greece]]<ref>[http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0525.tlg001.perseus-grc1:6.14.5 Pausanias, Description of Greece, 6.14.5]</ref>
*[[Phayllos of Croton]], Olympic athlete/war hero in battle of Salamina
*[[Astylos of Croton]] (5th century BCE), Olympic athlete
*[[List of Olympic winners of the Stadion race|Diognetus of Croton]] (6th century BCE), Olympic athlete
*[[List of Olympic winners of the Stadion race|Eratosthenes of Croton]] (6th century BCE), Olympic athlete
*[[Glycon of Croton]] (6th century BCE), Olympic athlete
*[[List of Olympic winners of the Stadion race|Hippostratus of Croton]] (6th century BCE), Olympic athlete
*[[List of Olympic winners of the Stadion race|Isomachus of Croton]] (6th century BCE), Olympic athlete
*[[List of Olympic winners of the Stadion race|Lycinus of Croton]] (6th century BCE), Olympic athlete
*[[List of Olympic winners of the Stadion race|Tisicrates of Croton]] (5th century BCE), Olympic athlete
*[[Democedes|Democedes of Croton]] (6th century BCE), physician
*[[Calliphon of Croton]] (6th century BCE), physician
*[[Philippus of Croton]] (6th century BCE), Olympic athlete/war hero
*[[Aristomachus of Croton]], ancient party leader of Croton during the Hannibalian war
*[[Alcmaeon of Croton]] (5th century BCE), philosopher and medical theorist
*[[Arignote]] (6th century BCE), [[Pythagoreanism|Pythagorean]] philosopher
*[[Philolaus|Philolaus of Croton]] (5th century BCE), pythagorean philosopher
*[[Pythagoras]], mathematician and philosopher. He lived in Crotone {{circa|530&nbsp;BCE|lk=no}}.
*[[Nicholas of Crotone]], 13th-century bishop
*[[Vincenzo Scaramuzza]], pianist and music teacher, born in Crotone
*[[Rino Gaetano]], singer, born in Crotone
*[[Sergio Cammariere]], singer, born in Crotone
*[[Vincenzo Iaquinta]], footballer, born in Crotone
*[[Autoleon]], ancient war hero
*[[Alessandro Riolo]], footballer, born in Crotone

===Literary reference===
Crotone appears in the [[List of Tagalog literary works|Philippine]] [[national epic]] ''[[Florante at Laura]]'' as the Kingdom of ''Krotona''. The poem narrates this as the homeland of the protagonist Florante's mother, Princess Floresca.

In Petronius' [[Satyricon]], which survives in fragments, the narrator and his friends arrive at Croton, famous for its legacy hunters. The narrator's companion, the manic poet Eumolpus, poses as a childless, rich old man. Upon arrival to the city, Philomela, a citizen of Croton, seduces Eumolpus by means of her children. The extant portion of the Satyricon ends with Eumolpus explaining that the people of Croton must agree to eat his dead body if they wish to claim his inheritance.