Planetario, Reggio di Calabria

The Planetarium Pythagoras of Reggio Calabria is located on Via Salita Zerbi, inside Mirella Carbone Park, near the Faculty of Architecture of the Mediterranea University.

The facility is owned by the Province of Reggio Calabria and in implementation of Provincial Council Resolution 74/2012, in terms of policy and management, it refers to the Department of Culture and Sector 7 Cultural Heritage and Activities - Linguistic Minorities - Sports - Tourism - Productive Activities.

The province has entered into a memorandum of understanding with the Calabria Section of the Italian Astronomical Society, which has been entrusted with the scientific direction of the Planetarium.

The Planetarium was opened on March 13, 2004.

The Reggio Calabria facility is recognized among Italy's leading centers for science and astronomy education and outreach, in particular.

Since 2013, the Planetarium has become one of ten national hubs for the organization of the Italian Astronomy Olympiad.

In 2014, by virtue of a special resolution of the Provincial Council, No. 45 of Nov. 26, 2014, the Provincial Administration declared the Planetarium: "Center of High Culture: an excellence of science and education" with the following motivation: "For its more than decennial commitment to the dissemination, knowledge and appreciation of Science and Astronomy, as an indispensable element of cultural enrichment and affirmation of the Human Sciences."

The Planetarium is an optical-mechanical instrument for reproducing the vault of heaven by projecting the image of stars and celestial bodies onto a hemispherical screen above the spectators.

The Planetarium has the ability to extremely realistically depict the appearance of the starry vault, creating in the viewer the perfect illusion of being outdoors under the celestial vault looking at the constellations during a cloudless night.

The instrument faithfully reproduces the movements of the celestial vault as they would appear to an observer at an assigned time and place.