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BOOK HOTEL ROOMS & ACCOMMODATIONS HERE NOW! Hotel Rooms & Accommodations with Fast Secure Reservations engine Provided by our Partner Booking.com @no extra costs! South Italy and most of its little villages, is an area so little known to the European tourism yet in a delightful land wealthy of natural beauties, such as the Arch of Arcomagno, a natural arch of rock, entrance to an attractive coved beach, with calm turquoise sea; the Faraglioni of Capri, beautiful sea rocks in the sea of Capri, one of many in the Amalfi Coast; or the Etna Volcano, still active and one of Sicily's biggest tourist attractions. History and architecture are also very important factors of southern Italy's culture and tourist attractions, like the temple ruins of Agrigento - Sicily; Capri offering one of Italy's most beautiful piazzas (town square) in the middle of town, Piazzetta, completely closed up, giving the impression of a courtyard, surrounded by many shops and cafes and the Torre dell'Orologio (Tower of Clock); or the over 40 mt. high statue of the Christ in Maratea situated on a hill over 300 mt. high offering a most breath-taking site over the port of Maratea. Another great piece of southern Italy history, from Calabria to be exact, is the Bronzi di Riace: two magnificent bronze, human-size, male statues, found in the gulf of Riace, now showing in the museum of Reggio Calabria, representing the Greek conception of heroism and beauty for their classical composure and dynamic vitality. Great tourist attractions for both rural and coastal holidays are also the town of Rivello, based on the graceful Basilicata mountains with its typical hystorical houses that can be found in all old parts of most of southern Italy's towns, and the Trulli, typical Apulia houses with cone shaped roofs. Not to mention the delicious cuisine and friendly people, all part of a world waiting to be explored and taken advantage of.
BOOK HOTEL ROOMS & ACCOMMODATIONS HERE NOW! Hotel Rooms & Accommodations with Fast Secure Reservations engine Provided by our Partner Booking.com @no extra costs! South Italy and most of its little villages, is an area so little known to the European tourism yet in a delightful land wealthy of natural beauties, such as the Arch of Arcomagno, a natural arch of rock, entrance to an attractive coved beach, with calm turquoise sea; the Faraglioni of Capri, beautiful sea rocks in the sea of Capri, one of many in the Amalfi Coast; or the Etna Volcano, still active and one of Sicily's biggest tourist attractions. History and architecture are also very important factors of southern Italy's culture and tourist attractions, like the temple ruins of Agrigento - Sicily; Capri offering one of Italy's most beautiful piazzas (town square) in the middle of town, Piazzetta, completely closed up, giving the impression of a courtyard, surrounded by many shops and cafes and the Torre dell'Orologio (Tower of Clock); or the over 40 mt. high statue of the Christ in Maratea situated on a hill over 300 mt. high offering a most breath-taking site over the port of Maratea. Another great piece of southern Italy history, from Calabria to be exact, is the Bronzi di Riace: two magnificent bronze, human-size, male statues, found in the gulf of Riace, now showing in the museum of Reggio Calabria, representing the Greek conception of heroism and beauty for their classical composure and dynamic vitality. Great tourist attractions for both rural and coastal holidays are also the town of Rivello, based on the graceful Basilicata mountains with its typical hystorical houses that can be found in all old parts of most of southern Italy's towns, and the Trulli, typical Apulia houses with cone shaped roofs. Not to mention the delicious cuisine and friendly people, all part of a world waiting to be explored and taken advantage of.













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Papasidero - Travel and Holiday to south Italy, accommodation by the sea or rural

PAPASIDERO - CALABRIA- SOUTH ITALY

VISIT AND SEE

Papasidero lies in a wild and coarse scenery between the mountains thickly overgrown with woods and dotted with rocky peaks, close to the River Lao on the left and the Santo Nocajo Torrent. It has the characteristics of a small medieval village almost placed in a position to be hidden by possible attackers from sea.
This village and it's name have origins from a Byzantine hamlet of the 10th century B.C. built around a monastery who's hegumen was Papas Isidoros.
The inhabitants of Papasidero today are famous for their various production of local wines and cheeses, they also produce cereals, vegetables and a wide selection of typical fruit of the area.

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Visit & See

The town hosts a prehistoric site named "Riparo del Romito" at a distance of 10 km from the town centre. This site features an art engraving of 10 thousand years B.C., that has been defined as "the most majestic and successful achievement of Mediterranean Palaeolithic Realism": a profile of a bull (bos primigenius 120 cm long and cm high) engraved on a rock wall of the "Grotta del Romito" (hermit's Grotto). The anatomic details of this engraving such as the eyes, nostrils, split hoofs, sexual organs, skin folds and horns curved backsets this to be one of the most ancient works of art performed by prehistoric man.

The site has also given light to three couples of skeletons buried in upright position; fragments of glossy-black and reddish-grey crockery with coil shaped handles, animal remains, punches made out of bones engraved with geometric designs, and a further rock engraving of a mysterious weave of straight lines and curves who's significance has not yet been discovered.

Papasidero puts up various churches: "Saint Theodore and Constantine", that houses a 17th century painting, "Saint Maria Odigitria", that keeps a 14th century Byzantine fresco, and "Saint Sophia" that also contains a large number of Byzantine style frescoes. These ministers where built by the people of the town who felt and lived two spiritualities: the Byzantine and the Roman Catholic and consecrated the churches to different Saints.