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Monastery of the Sacred Thorn in Petilia Policastro, Calabria, Italy

Photos by Calabria Orme Dimenticate

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Bronze statuette in the form of a sphinx - from the ancient Greek sanctuary of Hera Lacinia - 550 BC-540 BC (6th century BC) - National Archaeological Museum, Crotone, Calabria, Italy


The sanctuary of Hera Lacinia in the ancient city of Crotone, in Southern Italy’s Calabria, was one of the most important sanctuaries of Magna Graecia (the Latin name by which the Greek colonies in Southern Italy were known).

Winged sphinx in heraldic position in cast bronze with cold retouching. It must have been the decoration of a vessel, a lebes. Sitting on her hind legs, she turns her face to the beholder. The face has a straight and angular oval, under the forehead large eyebrow arches with orbital cavities are characterized by elongated and almond-shaped eyeballs. The lips, with a semi-lunar profile, are without any conjunction or rounded edges.

On his head he wears a cylindrical polos with the shape of a hollowed smooth cap. The outline of the chest is decorated with a line of engraved dots. The wings are decorated with feathers in raised planes, the body is exhausted, the tail is in S.

The Sphinx was a Greek mythological creature, borrowed from the Egyptian magical world. He had the body of a lion and the face of a woman. She was a demon of destruction and bad luck, who according to Hesiod was the daughter of Ortro and Echidna or the Chimera. Chthonic figure, which assumed an apotropaic role. By offering it to Hera, the goddess was asked for good luck and the contrast of negativity.

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San Giovanni in Fiore, Calabria, Italy

San Giovanni in Fiore is a small medieval town in the Sila mountain range in Calabria, southern Italy.

Its history is bound with the one of Abbot Joachim of Flora, exegete monk of the XII century who founded here its congregation and the Abbey of San Giovanni in Fiore. The village took its name after the patron saint of the monastery.

According to theologian Bernard McGinn, “Joachim of Flora is the most important apocalyptic thinker of the whole medieval period”.

The Florense Abbey, despite the numerous renovations, keeps the austere aspect of the Romanesque architecture: inside there is the crypt with Joachim of Flora’s tomb.

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The Torre Marrana of Ricadi, Calabria, Italy

Many historical towers can be seen along the coast of Calabria. These towers were built in the past as a defence against Saracen and Turkish attacks.

Torre Marrana is located in the municipality of Ricadi, on the Thyrrenian coast. Marrano was a pejorative word used during the late Middle Ages in Italy to define “the wicked Moors”, who invaded the coast of Southern Italy in order to conquer.

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