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History Legend Geography Main sights The Norman Castle Churches Museums Room I: The concept of folklore (summary historic). Ethnic minorities: Italo-Albanesi and Gypsies. Room II: The folk architecture: the house. Room III: The interior lighting systems and sources of heat. Water supply. Room IV: Interiors: cooking and food. Room V: The clothing: murals. Room VI: The domestic activities: spinning, weaving, embroidery. The business: agriculture and pastoralism. Room VII: The handicrafts: jewellery. Room VIII: religious life. Social life. The instruments of popular music. Room IX: Emigration: Calabresi in Canada. The top floor has established a magnificent and interesting gallery entitled to Achille Capizzano works with the same, Mattia Preti, and many other Italian artists. Museum of the present: The Museum of the Present located in the modern city; eight exhibition halls are developed on an area of 2500 square metres. The museum houses exhibitions of modern and contemporary art, photographic exhibitions, cinema, conferences and book presentations. The rooms are on two levels: Ground floor, the Tokyo hall and an internet cafe; Upstairs, the 'Laboratory of thoughts' and the 'Belvedere of the arts and sciences'. Other attractions Economy Sports and media Bibliography A.Miceli di Serradileo, I conti di Rende in Calabria durante il Regno di Alfonso I e di Ferrante d'Aragona (1422-1494), in "Historica",Reggio Calabria, n.2, 1974; A.Miceli di Serradileo,San Francesco di Paola ed i miracoli dei pesci resuscitati, in "Rivista Storica Calabrese",Reggio Calabria, 2007; A.Miceli di Serradileo, Il partito angioino a Cosenza e le sue vicende tra la guerra dei baroni di Ferrante I ed il regno di Carlo V attraverso i documenti dell'Archivio di Stato di Cosenza, in "Archivio Storico per le province napoletane" vol.CXXXI, 2013, pp. 245–259. Fonte, Fedele (1976). Rende nella sua cronistoria (in Italian). Chiaravalle Centrale: Frama Sud. Giraldi, Gerardo (1991). Rende: Usanze, tradizioni, costumi (in Italian). Rende: Amministrazione Comunale di Rende. Giraldi, Gerardo (2004). Le chiese di Rende (in Italian). Amministrazione Comunale di Rende. Alternate 1990 2nd edition OCLC 878860087 Giraldi, Riccardo (2003). Il popolo cosentino e il suo territorio (in Italian). Cosenza: Pellegrini. Settia, Aldo Angelo (2002). Rapine, assedi, battaglie. La guerra nel medioevo (in Italian). Roma-Bari: Gius. Laterza & Figli S.p.A. Notes and references External links (Italian) Rende official website