Cosenza About this sound listen is a city in southern Italy. The municipal population is of around 70,000. The urban area, however, counts over 260,000 inhabitants. It is the capital of the homonymous Province of Cosenza, which has a population of around 733,000.Seat of the Cosentian Academy, the second academy of philosophical and literary studies to be founded in the Kingdom of Naples and one of the oldest in Europe, the city remains to this day a cultural hub with several museums, theatres, libraries and the University of Calabria.