What is "rocca"

Rocca is an Italian American rapper who was born in California. His first official album entitled Sexy Smooth was released in January 1993 and sold many copies in the United States as well as many other countries. Rocca has 3 music videos to his credentials and wrote/rapped/starred in the "James Bond Spoof - Secret Agent OO Soul - with Billy Dee Williams". Rocca feels that there was an obligation to the youth of the world to try to promote positivity.

Rocca is a lunar crater that is located near the western limb of the Moon. It lies to the northwest of the flooded crater Crüger, and to the west of the Montes Cordillera. Just to the east-southeast of Rocca is the small Lacus Aestatis, a small lunar mare.

This crater lies within the skirt of ejecta that surrounds the Mare Orientale impact basin, and radial streaks of material have modified the surroundings of Rocca. There is a dune-like set of hills in the east part of the floor, similar to those in the eastern floor of the crater Darwin to the south, which is "decelerated surface-flow ejecta" from the Orientale impact. The rest of the crater is in poor condition with small craters along the rim. Rocca R cuts across the northern rim, while the smaller Rocca L lies along the southern edge and inner wall.

Rocca may refer to:

• Rocca (surname)
• Rocca (architecture), a fortifiable stronghold
• Rocca (crater), a lunar crater
• Rocca (Italian-American rapper), Italian–American rapper, famous for his album Sexy Smooth
• Rocca (French rapper) (born 1975), French–Colombian rapper

Rocca (literally: "rock") is an Italian term meaning a high, fortifiable stronghold, usually located in smaller towns, beneath or on which the village or town clustered, within which its inhabitants might take refuge at times of trouble; under its owners' patronage the settlement might hope to find prosperity in better times. A rocca might in reality be no grander than a fortified farmhouse. A more extensive rocca would be referred to as a castello.

The rocca in Roman times would more likely be a site of a venerable cult than a dwelling, like the highplace of Athens, its Acropolis. Though the earliest documentation is not often earlier than the eleventh century, it was during the Lombard times that farming communities, which had presented a Roman pattern of loosely distributed farmsteads or self-sufficient villas, moved from their traditional places on the fringes of the best arable lands in river valleys, where they were dangerously vulnerable from the Roman roads, to defensive positions, such as had once been occupied by Etruscan settlements, before the settled conditions of the Pax Romana. "At Falerii", J.B. Ward-Perkins notes, "the inhabitants simply transferred their town back from its Roman site on the open plateau to the old cliff-top site of Falerii Veteres, to which they gave the significant name of Civita Castellana, or "the Fortress Town"; just as in antiquity, security was once again the basic consideration." Similarly, in Greek-speaking Calabria, the inhabitants of Paestum finally abandoned their town after raids by Saracens and moved a few miles to the top of a cliff, calling the new settlement Agropoli (ie "acropolis"). Where such fortress villages were sited at the end of a ridge, protected on three sides by steep, cliff-like escarpments, the rocca was often sited to control the narrow access along the crest of the spur.

Locally the term la rocca simply designates the local fortified high place.

Rocca is an Italian surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Agostino Rocca, founder of Techint
• Andrea Rocca, Italian musician and film composer
• Anthony Rocca, Australian rules footballer
• Costantino Rocca, Italian golfer
• Gianfelice Rocca, Italian businessman, Techint
• Gianni Rocca (1929–1014), Italian sprinter
• Giorgio Rocca, Italian alpine skier

• Lodovico Rocca (1895–1986), Italian composer
• Michelle Rocca, presenter of the Eurovision Song Contest 1988
• Mo Rocca, American writer, comedian, and political satirist
• Nick LaRocca, Sicilian-American jazz musician
• Paolo Rocca, president of Techint
• Peter Rocca, American backstroke swimmer
• Saverio Rocca, Australian American football punter
• Silvia Rocca, Italian ski mountaineer

Rocca (full name Sébastian Rocca) is a French-Colombian Rapper and Producer born in April 1975, in Paris. Rocca is known as one of the best lyricist in French Rap. He gained recognition as a rapper during the 1990s as a part of the influential rap group, La Cliqua.