ella voyage

Region

Calabria

Greek-speaking villages in the Aspromonte, Norman hilltowns, a sea most travellers reach only by accident. Slow writing from the toe of the peninsula.

  • calabriaPentedattilo

    The five fingers, and what came after

    Pentedattilo is a Calabrian village abandoned in stages after 1783. The rock that holds it has carried its Greek name for two thousand years. The film festival has carried the rest.

  • calabriaGerace

    Inland from Locri, by the rule of pirates

    Gerace sits at five hundred metres on a sandstone plateau inside the Aspromonte. Around 2,300 people, a Norman cathedral with Roman columns, and the oldest Orthodox church in Italy on a side street.