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Scalea - Calabria - Italy

#Scalea is a town of 11,109 inhabitants in the province of #Cosenza in #Calabria. Place of settlements since #prehistoric times, after the construction of a Franciscan monastery in the thirteenth century by Peter Cathin, disciple of St. Francis of #Assisi, became a religious and cultural center. For the location of seaport, was subjected to attacks over the centuries of corsairs and Saracens. Heavily damaged by the air and naval bombardment by the Anglo-American armed forces during the last war, is now a tourist center and seaside resort , with the old town perched to dominate the modern overlooking the wide beaches. The town has a large hill that borders the southern Gulf of #Policastro. The oldest neighborhoods are arranged in terraces perched, while the more modern spread along the coast. Monuments and places of interest In the Old Center testimonies of medieval architecture and the Palazzo dei Principi , sec. XIII. Norman said the Bishop's Palace (XII century). Torre #Talao of the fifteenth century. Ruins of the #Norman Castle . Ruins of the Basilian churches with frescoes of the ninth century. Church of Santa Maria d'Episcopio (XII century, rebuilt in sec. XVII). Church of St. Nicholas in Plateis (VIII century, renovated in the XII, XIV and XVIII). Ruins of the Grange and the Franciscan Monastery of the thirteenth century. Church of San Cataldo of the eleventh century Wooden and marble sculptures, frescoes and paintings in the churches of Santa Maria d'Bishop's and St. Nicholas in Plateis. Bust of Gregory Caloprese by the sculptor Henry Mossuti (1911)