Calabria: Lighthouse of Capo Spartivento

Via Faro Capo Spartivento, 89038 Palizzi RC, Italia
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Original no but special yes, and for many reasons. First of all the legend: Capo Spartivento in ancient times was called Heracleum Promontorium, a name that refers to the myth of Hercules who rested on that hillock from his labors, then the final point of the Italian peninsula, which was traveled by Greek sailors, Carthaginians and Romans and that today remains an important crossroads in the center of the Mediterranean. Capo Spartivento heart of Bovesìa, the’grecanica area where a minority still speaks the ancient greek in the villages that go up the first spurs of’Aspromonte. Capo Spartivento place also of the memory for the stay of Cesare Pavese that, in the residence of Brancaleone (a shot of schioppo) during the fascist confinement, elaborateò some of the works più beautiful of its production. Therefore, a site of a still uncontaminated beauty where it is possible to see the fireflies that, as Pier Paolo Pasolini wrote on February 1st 1975 in a memorable article on the Corriere della Sera, "this civilization has made disappear".