The city of Crotone
Set up on the site of the ancient Greek Kroton, the entire area of the city of Crotone is considered a significant historical and archaeological heritage, the exceptional wholesomeness of its territory justified the physical vigor of its famous athletes and its women, among the most beautiful in the Greek world.
Home to a very famous medical school, Crotone was chosen as a homeland by Pythagoras who established a school of scientific philosophy and thanks to the Pythagoreans in 500 BC. it became the most important commercial center of Magna Graecia.
On the nineteenth-century Piazza Pitagora, which is the point of union between the old and the modern part of the city, there are the sandstone porticos with a neo-gothic capital from 1867, continuing to Piazza Duomo where the minor Basilica stands. The Cathedral, rebuilt using materials removed from the temple of Hera Lacinia, preserves the icon of the Madonna of Capo Colonna that is venerated each year in a traditional folk festival in May (Maggio Mariano).
The seafront surrounds the ancient and characteristic old town, embellished by fortifications, churches and noble buildings.