Platania

Platania is a comune and town in the province of Catanzaro in the western part of the Calabria region of Italy. It is located approximately 50 kilometres away from the city of Catanzaro

Bounding communes

The population grew until the 1950s except for between the censuses of 1901 and 1911, the comune was to be rocked by emigration as the population fell over half since the 1950s census. There was significant emigration to the US during the latter half of the 20th century, resulting in a declining population