a city in Southern Italy, in the Crati valley, at the foot of the wooded mountains of the Sila highland, in Calabria. Cosenza is the administrative center of the province of Cosenza. Population, 97,600 (1970). Wood products are made here; other industries are food, metalworking, garment, paper, and ceramics. There are remains of Roman fortifications in Cosenza. The city is also the site of a Norman castle (extended by Emperor Frederick II in the first half of the 13th century), the Gothic church of San Francesco (early 13th century), and a cathedral (1185–1222; rebuilt in the 18th century; neo-Gothic facade, 1831); inside the cathedral is the tomb of Isabella of Aragon (late 13th century).