This village in Calabria was founded by the Arbëresh: they moved to southern Italy from Albania in the late 15th Century, when their home country had come under the rule of the Osman Empire. View in southeastern direction, the Ionian Sea appears in the background of the photo.

Keywords

cultural landscape, mirror of the past, villagescape

Created

Monday 2 April 2012 by Martin Mergili in Europe / Italy (3195 visits)