Stilo

The philosopher Tommaso Campanella was born in this town at the foot of Monte Consolino, in the Stilaro valley of southern Calabria. Its prize is the Cattolica, a Byzantine church laid out as a Greek cross in a square, with four columns and five domes. The town also keeps a Norman castle and many churches, and its territory runs from fir and beech forest down to the Ionian Sea.

Highlights

• The Cattolica, a Byzantine church with five domes on four columns
• San Giovanni Therestis abbey, with a 12th-century Madonna enthroned
• The Norman castle of Roger II
• The Palio di Ribusa, on the first Sunday of August
• The Bosco di Stilo near Ferdinandea, a forest of silver fir and beech

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