Consigned to history, thanks to the famous defeat Emperor Ottone II’s soldiers suffered, as a result of the Arabs, in 982, the city of Stilo, whose name derives through the Greek “stulos” (column), offers its origins in Caulonia, a historical Greek colony, founded in the 8th century. B.C. and demolished in 389 Advertisement by Dionisio I, the aged tyrant of Syracuse. For a short while, between the 8th as well as the 10th hundred years, this a part of Calabria welcomed a true community of hermits, who had emigrated in the East.

about The Cattolica Church. Stilo. Italy

This community became the protagonist of unprecedented spiritual renewal and was so closely integrated with the neighborhood population it became a center for dispersing agricultural technologies: because of this, the growing of mulberry stems, vines and olives spread; as did the analysis of religious, literary and technological disciplines. In other words, the guests of Byzantium, who in the Western were often called “Basilians” honoring St. Basil the fantastic, lived according to this monastic guideline and made the Stilaro valley a real cradle of Byzantine culture, in Calabria.

The audioguide tells the storyplot, details the architecture and reports interesting factual statements about the Cattolica di Stilo, a distinctive historic place, in the town. It is believed its style and construction took place ahead of 1071, when the Normans, guided with the brothers Roberto Guiscardo and Ruler Ruggero I of Sicily, won these places. Under the 1st arch of Cattolica there can be an outstanding representation from the Virgin that goes back to the period from the building of the cathedral and was made by a Byzantine artist who had most likely fled from your Orient or have been invited by the monks.

The audioguide continues to be made by professionals in neuro-scientific history and art.