Greek Calabria has millenary cultural roots dating back to the first Greek colonisation. Throughout time, the territory has remained the secular cradle of the Hellenophone linguistic minority, preserving the unchanged traces of its ancient nature as a crossroads of the Mediterranean. There are indeed several historical pieces of evidence of the presence and coexistence of different cultures in this area. For a long time, Greeks, Arbs, and Jews established a peaceful coexistence in this peasant and pastoral corner of the far south of Calabria. A history of over 2500 years leaves very rich marks in the local culture.
In the inner villages of Bova, Gallicianò and Roghudi, you will find people, particularly the elderlies, who still speak Greko, the ancient language of Greeks of Calabria whose roots reach the Magna Graecia Age.
Greek Calabria is a land of welcoming inhabitants. Many illustrious travellers of the past noticed and wrote about it. Among these, Edward Lear, Maurits Escher, the glottologist Gerhard Rohlfs, who was fraternally welcomed in these territories during the many years of his research on the Greek-Calabrian language, and Cesare Pavese, who, from Brancaleone, wrote to his sister “the people of these territories have a tact and courtesy that have only one explanation: here, civilisation was once Greek”.
It is in Greek Calabria, between Spropoli and Capo Spartivento, that Zeus of the Alece probably stood. This sanctuary was built by Lokroi Epizephyrioi near the Alece River, in Magna Graecia, in the neighbourhood of the Alece river and dedicated to Zeus Olympios.
And it is here, between Spropoli Fiumara torrent and Galati Fiumara torrent, that the Aranghìa Fiumara torrent flows, also identified as the ancient Alece River by the scholar Sabbione. Nearby this scenario, Cooperativa Agricola Terre Grecaniche was born.
UNA STORIA DI POETI
LA PAROLA E LA BELLEZZA
LA MADONNA DEI GRECI
TRA RICAMI DI FIUMARE
IN PUNTA DI COLTELLO
PALCHI DI PIETRA
BORGHI DELLA MEMORIA
IN MEMORIA DI AGOSTINO SIVIGLIA
TRA LE STELLE E LE CICALE
U SPIRITU, L’ORO TRA LE FOGLIE
