Archaeological digs show that as far back as Neolithic times the cult of a Mother Goddess was practiced here, while there is documentary evidence of r...

At about 4 kilometres from the coast, close to the boundary between the towns of Bova and Bova Marina, lies the archaeological site of Umbro. At the f...

Wheaten bread Wheaten bread, or “home-made bread”, made using flour from the durum wheat grown on the slopes of the Aspromonte massif, use...

Two churches, two Byzantines jewels in the very heart of the village of San Lorenzo. In the middle of Piazza Regina Margherita, on either side of the ...

The Capo dell’Armi lighthouse stands on a cliff by the same name, in the municipal area of Motta San Giovanni in the Province of Reggio Calabria. It...

The lighthouse at Capo Spartivento, Brancaleone, consists of a white quadrangular tower standing on a one-storey construction, built in 1867 and renov...

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The life-story of the historic site of Amendolea, a hamlet belonging to the Condofuri municipal area, is riddled with strife. After having been ravage...

Bova is the most important town of Calabria’s so-called “Graecanic Island”, an area in the province of Reggio Calabria where native speakers of ...

The fourteenth-nineteenth century Castle of Palizzi Superiore, which stands on top of an enormous sheer-faced rock formation, 300 metres above sea lev...

The foundation of Pentedattilo goes back to the high middle ages. It may have been the result of the wide-scale reorganisation of the territory undert...

Castle Piromallo, popularly known as “Turri”, has been standing in the hamlet of Fossato, in the Municipality of Montebello Jonico, for over two c...

At only ten kilometres from Reggio, between the Macellari and San Giovanni Rivers, lies the Sant’Aniceto Valley which Monsignor Antonio De Lorenzo, ...

The Co-Cathedral of Bova, or Cattedrale di Santa Maria dell’Isodia, is situated in a position higher up that the rest of the historic centre next to...

The origin of the Calabrian charcuterie almost certainly dates back to the period when the Greeks colonised the Ionian coast and the Magna Grecia area...

The king of all traditional local cheeses is pecorino, made usually, from a mixture of goat’s and ewe’s milk. There is, of course, the excellent r...

In Brancaleone Superiore there once stood a church dedicated to Maria Santissima Annunziata, completely destroyed by the earthquake of 1908. Today, of...

In the Apàmbelo locality, at about 70 metres above the Vena River, stand the ruins of the small San Niceto church (tenth century), measuring about 6...

MADONNA DEL CARMINE [OUR LADY OF MOUNT CARMEL] The Church of the Madonna del Carmine in Palizzi was built in 1573. To the name of the church are often...

IMMACOLATA [MARY IMMACULATE] Walking through the village of Bova, there are several buildings worth visiting, including the Chiesa dell’Immacolata [...

In Motta San Giovanni, in the Oleander district about four kilometres from the town centre, it is possible to visit the Sanctuary of Maria Santissima ...

Principal works of art The painting of the Madonna di Porto Salvo, which stands on the altar of the church of the in Porto Salvo, depicts the Madonna ...

Palizzi has retained the charm of the old, medieval village, comprising narrow streets, lanes and flights of steps connecting the village’s houses. ...

The tiny hamlet of Pietrapennata stands in the Alìca Valley, where the evocative remnants of what was once a church, maybe a monastery, still stand, ...

The Church of Saints Peter and Paul, of probable Byzantine origin, has a single nave, a more recent neoclassical façade and a square-based, two-tiere...

SAN GIOVANNI BATTISTA [SAINT JOHN THE BAPTIST] The church, of Byzantine origin, overlooks the town’s main square. It houses two images of the patron...

The Church of St. Leo was built at the end of the eighteenth century on ruins of a previous building. Inside there is a chapel of relics. Some of them...

The little church of San Nicola, recently restored despite the fact that the town itself is uninhabited, is an unassuming, sacred place that retains i...

S. Rocco [St. Roch] is a saint venerated a lot in Bova. The small church dedicated to him stands close to an old monastery of the Frati Minori di Sant...

This church was built in the sixteenth century. At that time the altar was in plain masonry, the tabernacle was small, the candlesticks in silver-coat...

According to a number of documents, the church of the patron saint of Cardeto, San Sebastiano, is seventeenth-century and, unusually, built outside th...

Walking through the hamlet’s little, narrow streets, which lead to the main square, we come across the church of San Teodoro. Principal works of art...

Originally dedicated to the Holy Ghost, the church of St Catherine was rebuilt during the second half of the twentieth century and consecrated in 1969...

The Church of Santa Maria de’ Tridetti is situated a few kilometres from Staiti, in a green valley against a protective backdrop of mountains. Today...

The present th ree-aisled Baroque church dedicated to Santa Maria della Vittoria [Our Lady of Victory] was developed from an older two-aisled late-Ren...

In Cardeto, the church of Santi Pietro e Paolo [Saints Peter and Paul], houses a valuable eighteenth-century painting of saints Sants Cosmas and Damia...

This church known previously as La Madonna dell’Assunta [Our Lady of the Assumption] once stood in the old mediaeval hamlet of Amendolea. In 1869 it...

The Church of the Spirito Santo [Holy Ghost] was built between 1930 and 1934 by the Anonima Costruzione edilizia building company directed by engineer...

The Museo di Paleontologia e Scienze Naturali dell’Aspromonte, which occupies premises covering a floor space of about 300 square metres, which once...

Pios tragudài to calocèri to chimòna chorègui. Choever sings in summer willa dance in winter. Music is the life companion of human beings. It is ...

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The Museo Etnografico “Anzel Bogasari-Merianoù” in Gallicianò, [“Anzel Merianoù” Ethnographc Museum of Gallicianò], Condofuri, is housed...

The history of olive oil is the leading topic at Bagaladi’s Porta del Parco. The Gateway to the Park building is the ancient Jacopino water-driven o...

The making of an icon From a technical point of view, icons are painted onto wooden panels, using natural pigments. Broadly speaking, the procedure is...

The Citrus Bergamia Risso is bergamot, a random fruit-bearing hybrid of cedar, mandarin, lemon and orange that grows on the southern Ionian coast, tha...

On the slopes of the Punta d’Argento [Silver Point] hill, at about one hundred metres above the San Pietro river, near a disused oil mill, half-hid...

Outside the walls that skirt the Ruffo di Calabria Castle there are three little churches of considerable architectural interest. Of the twelfth-centu...

Already along the pathway, as we approach the base of the Castle, we come across the ruins of a number of little churches. The first one to be seen (p...

Carne di capra alla vutana [Bova-style goat’s meat] La carne di capra alla vutana is the way goat’s meat is most frequently cooked in the Bova dis...

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Il Museo della Lingua Greco-Calabra “Gerhard Rohlfs” è stato inaugurato a Bova il 21 maggio 2016, grazie all’intervento sinergico del Parco Na...

The MuseOsteria [lit. Inn-Museum], born thanks to the patient and tireless work begun over thirty years ago by Marcello Manti, is the fruit of researc...

Pios tragudài to calocèri to chimòna chorègui. Choever sings in summer willa dance in winter. Music is the life companion of human beings. It is t...

The most welcome respite for rich and poor alike is to gather to listen to the beautiful tragude or songs, accompanied by the bagpipe and the tambouri...

  I Cerameddhe Zampogna “Smìngondo sto choro ti vvradìa to glicìo tragùdi to ppuddhìo, i melodia ftinì ti cceramèddha, cheretònda tin i...

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Following the course of the San Pasquale river, the road cuts a Roman site, already known to scholars, in two. Here, in the Panaghia locality, there h...

Petrali [Christmas pies, somewhat akin to mince pies] These pies are of ancient origin and their ingredients were once put aside during the year to us...

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The bergamot, from the Turkish beg-armudi, the lord’s pear tree, is a particular citrus grown only along the Calabrian coast from Villa San Giovanni...

The thirteenth-fourteenth-century Proto-Papal Church of the Assumption or, as it is known by tradition, Santissima Annunziata [Most Holy Annunciation...

The village of Bova, so full of charm and history, is custodian of a set of traditional recipes based on simple ingredients, yet tasty at the same tim...

Bergamot is a fragrant citrus fruit which, for some unknown, mysterious reason, grows only along the Ionian coast of the southernmost tip of the Provi...

There is evidence that the Calabrian Greek rite was practiced in Cardeto and the valley of the Sant’Agata River until 1700. The Sanctuary of the Ass...

On the 31st of May 1965, the bishop of Bova, Monsignor Aurelio Sorrentino, elevated to the status of Sanctuary the church on the Capo San Giovanni D�...

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Mystical Aspromonte: landscapes of the spirit Giuseppe Bombino, President of the National Park of Aspromonte Building up the memory of a territory thr...

Bucatini cu u stoccu [Bucatini with stockfish] U pisci stòccu (stocco) is stockfish [dried cod] used as the basis of many dishes typical of the provi...

Set up only recently in the lower ground floor of the Regional Institute of Higher Studies of Greek-Speaking Calabria [Istituto Regionale Superiore di...

On the summit of the hamlet of Gallicianò stands the small church dedicated to Our Lady of Greece [Madonna della Grecia– Panagia tis Elladas] w...

The twelfth-century church of San Giovanni, now a ruin, has a single nave with a sole protruding apse and two doorways: one facing west, the other, as...

From the rediscovery of one’s own roots to a rediscovery of the roots of an entire area  “For over ten years now, every summer, I have returned t...

The traditional cuisine of the Graecanic Aspromonte area is frugal; it is the food of mountain-dwellers and yet, it is tasty and full of flavoursome s...

I Penelope greca an tin Calavrìa / The Greek-Calabrian Penelope Calabrian handicrafts have always been of primary importance to the economy of the G...

Greek Calabria’s edible plants. Greek Calabria is of great interest to ethnobotanists, that is, to researchers who study the use of plants by the i...

PALIZZI One of Calabria’s most renowned wines, Palizzi, is the IGT [fine wine] of the Graecanic Area and is produced in the district between Palizzi...

L’arte dei pastori/ I arte tos sambatàro/ The art of shepherds The universe of crafts practiced by men is also an authentic art form, born in ancie...